Thu Jun 16, 2022, 05:49 PM

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Post a line or 2 from a novel & see if anyone can guess the novel without using Google

"Gnossos cruising meanwhile in the back of a charcoal-gray four-passenger Aston Martin, wedged between two freshmen football heroes with android heads, from Alexandria, Virginia, mouths mumbling in taut, athletic fashion as if they have unopened Brazil nuts packing their cheeks. How's your ass, ace?'

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Post a line or 2 from a novel & see if anyone can guess the novel without using Google (Original post)	red dog 1	Jun 2022	OP
Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to	applegrove	Jun 2022	#1
Look Homeward Angel by Tom Wolfe	hedda_foil	Jun 2022	#4
The Stone Angel by Margaret Lawrence (canadian)	applegrove	Jun 2022	#7
Ah, well! A stone, A leaf, an u found door.	hedda_foil	Jun 2022	#9
What is that from?	applegrove	Jun 2022	#10
I guess I'll add it to the list!	hedda_foil	Jun 2022	#11
This message was self-deleted by its author	applegrove	Jun 2022	#8
"They danced down the street like dingledodies..." n/t	Mister Ed	Jun 2022	#2
Picking up the telephone, he said, 'Leon, I thought you would like to know. She's here".	Srkdqltr	Jun 2022	#3
"Yes. It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration,	Glorfindel	Jun 2022	#5
Dickens: Tale of Two Cities	LeftishBrit	Jun 2022	#47
Yes! My favorite of Dickens' works.	Glorfindel	Jun 2022	#48
This message was self-deleted by its author	Glorfindel	Jun 2022	#6
A stone, A leaf, an unfound door.	hedda_foil	Jun 2022	#12
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe	Withywindle	Aug 2022	#119
breeze and blade	MickOfTheWest	Jun 2022	#13
don't like metaphor	llashram	Jun 2022	#14
Should I delete my response?	MickOfTheWest	Jun 2022	#15
your choice	llashram	Jun 2022	#16
call me ishmael	USALiberal	Jun 2022	#17
Moby-Dick.	Harker	Jun 2022	#19
Yep!!!!	USALiberal	Jun 2022	#20
There was a desert wind blowing that night.	Brother Buzz	Jun 2022	#18
I know it's Chandler...Lady in the Lake?	First Speaker	Jun 2022	#25
Yes, Raymond Chandler - Red Wind (1938)	Brother Buzz	Jun 2022	#29
I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low country, inked	USALiberal	Jun 2022	#21
"The Prince of Tides"	Glorfindel	Jun 2022	#22
I love that book and I love that movie. Heartbreaking.	USALiberal	Jun 2022	#23
So do I. Heartbreaking, indeed.	Glorfindel	Jun 2022	#24
Pat Conroy was a beautiful writer. nt	Jade Fox	Jun 2022	#49
Yes, I loved that book and movie!	USALiberal	Jun 2022	#50
Pat Conroy is one of my literary heroes	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#68
The United States in now on the verge of civil war.	First Speaker	Jun 2022	#26
"I can dodge folly without backing into fear."	First Speaker	Jun 2022	#27
"Isn't it pretty to think so."	First Speaker	Jun 2022	#28
"Hello, sir. Yes...Uh-huh...Yes...	Brother Buzz	Jun 2022	#30
"The man in black fled across the desert...and the Gunslinger followed."	Mad_Dem_X	Jun 2022	#31
It's from a Stephen King novel	red dog 1	Jun 2022	#33
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger	Glorfindel	Jun 2022	#37
You got it!	Mad_Dem_X	Jun 2022	#38
"Temperatures were taken twice a day in the ward..Early each morning and late each afternoon.	red dog 1	Jun 2022	#32
Catch-22?	First Speaker	Jun 2022	#41
This message was self-deleted by its author	red dog 1	Jun 2022	#53
Ding!	red dog 1	Jun 2022	#54
"We pull up to the garage an there is a panel truck parked just outside, painted in blue, yellow,	red dog 1	Jun 2022	#34
"There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed."	UTUSN	Jun 2022	#35
The General's Daughter?	Glorfindel	Jun 2022	#39
Am grateful for the wild guess - thought there would be no reply but no. Clue, was made into a movie	UTUSN	Jun 2022	#45
Since I didn't guess correctly, I googled it	Glorfindel	Jun 2022	#46
Brilliant book, much underrated movie.	UTUSN	Jun 2022	#51
Please let me know when you read/see it - am very interested in your reaction!	UTUSN	Jun 2022	#55
I'm terrible at these, but here is one of my all-time favorites:	DFW	Jun 2022	#36
The Major must have been a Republican. n/t	malthaussen	Jun 2022	#56
No political affiliations are stated in the book	DFW	Jun 2022	#59
Was that "Major Major"?	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#69
His name in the novel is Major Diamond.	DFW	Jul 2022	#70
I was thinking it might be from "Catch 22"	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#71
The book is called "Shibumi"	DFW	Jul 2022	#73
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security	Celerity	Jun 2022	#40
This sounds like Solzhenitsyn...	First Speaker	Jun 2022	#42
Gulag Archipelago is correct	Celerity	Jun 2022	#43
The "Gulag" is one of the great books ever written...	First Speaker	Jun 2022	#44
"If you rode the Black Shadow at top speed for any length of time....	Brother Buzz	Jun 2022	#52
That sounds like a line from The Great Shark Hunt	jmowreader	Aug 2022	#114
Yes, he was also infatuated with shooting golf....	Brother Buzz	Aug 2022	#115
"But that's bullshit, Randy..."	malthaussen	Jun 2022	#57
"Stone burner... stone burner..." -NT-	ruet	Jun 2022	#58
Dune?	dingosatemyusername	Jun 2022	#61
Which One? -NT-	ruet	Jun 2022	#62
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."	SKKY	Jun 2022	#60
George Orwell: 1984	LeftishBrit	Jul 2022	#66
"I said, 'Hold on just a minute, I'll be right with you soon as I finish this chapter' and it was	red dog 1	Jun 2022	#63
"The flooded New England valley made a beautiful holiday spot, with twenty miles of	red dog 1	Jun 2022	#64
"Damn your eyes. What's that pump stopping for?"	red dog 1	Jun 2022	#65
This message was self-deleted by its author	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#67
"Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it."	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#72
"The Exorcist."	Harker	Jul 2022	#82
Ding!	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#83
...	Harker	Jul 2022	#85
"The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it."	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#74
"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#75
Catch 22	Ohiya	Nov 8	#143
"That's some catch, Catch 22"	red dog 1	Nov 8	#145
"Rules? PI$$ on your rules!"	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#76
"The minute I went in, I was sorry I'd come. He was reading the Atlantic Monthly,	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#77
J D Salinger: Catcher in the Rye	LeftishBrit	Aug 2022	#112
Yep	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#123
"God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials."	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#78
"He turned up one day in the doorway of my office. He was already out of uniform, but he had not yet	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#79
"I've got to hit the books this semester. I'm carrying 18 hours and I'm on pro.	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#80
"Where's Papa going with that ax?"	liberal_mama	Jul 2022	#81
E.B. White: Charlotte's Web	LeftishBrit	Jul 2022	#86
"After just admiring Fred's bar and crawled out from underneath the plank press,	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#84
This message was self-deleted by its author	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#87
"I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers"	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#88
"I'm quite illiterate; but I read a lot."	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#89
I think this is also 'Catcher in the Rye'	LeftishBrit	Aug 2022	#113
Ding!	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#122
"Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?"	Mad_Dem_X	Jul 2022	#90
Last night I dreamt I went to	malaise	Jul 2022	#91
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca	LeftishBrit	Aug 2022	#111
"The everyday world demands our attention, and prevents us from sinking into ourselves"	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#92
"The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread"	red dog 1	Jul 2022	#93
B.F. Skinner: Walden Two	LeftishBrit	Nov 20	#153
"Far over the misty mountains cold....To dungeons deep and caverns old	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#94
The Hobbit?	First Speaker	Aug 2022	#96
Yes, I think so	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#97
"He dressed in fatigue pants, a military issue t-shirt, and combat boots.	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#95
"I have no wish to take life, not even human life,' repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears"	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#98
George Orwell: Animal Farm	LeftishBrit	Aug 2022	#110
Yep	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#121
"The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable.	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#99
Catch-22	First Speaker	Aug 2022	#103
Yep	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#105
"That's bold talk	VGNonly	Aug 2022	#100
True Grit	First Speaker	Aug 2022	#101
"...he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts..."	Paladin	Aug 2022	#102
Indian summer is like a woman.	CTyankee	Aug 2022	#104
"My name is Elizabeth Butler; my friends and students call me Liz.	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#106
Pelf? Mom likes pelf?	Not Heidi	Aug 2022	#107
"I cut into the Automat and there is Bill Gains huddled in someone else's overcoat	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#108
"The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week;	red dog 1	Aug 2022	#109
What I used to pamper among the tangled vines of my heart,	sir pball	Aug 2022	#116
P.S.	Brother Buzz	Aug 2022	#117
From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead	Just A Box Of Rain	Aug 2022	#118
Water had frozen everywhere, so it was difficult to find water to drink,	Meowmee	Aug 2022	#120
"I decided finally to pack the football. It was a slightly used Spaulding ball, an expensive one,	red dog 1	Sep 2022	#124
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."	red dog 1	Sep 2022	#125
1984.	Harker	Sep 2022	#126
Ding!	red dog 1	Nov 2022	#136
"That was the cop who saved me. He lost a leg to a hammer-head shark;	red dog 1	Oct 2022	#127
"The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding grey clouds...A grey shroud that	red dog 1	Oct 2022	#128
"I dig through ancient trash," I told the elegantly groomed young woman who had been sent	red dog 1	Oct 2022	#129
"That the incidence of psychopathy is increasing is evident not from the neat	red dog 1	Oct 2022	#130
"Col. Cathcart might raise the number of missions again at any time"	red dog 1	Oct 2022	#131
Catch 22	Ohiya	Nov 8	#142
Yes,	red dog 1	Nov 8	#144
"It was 1943. When Jenny's pregnancy was apparent, she lost her job.	red dog 1	Oct 2022	#132
"I stood outside the barber shop looking up at the jutting neon sign of a second floor	red dog 1	Oct 2022	#133
"If the others heard me talking out loud, they would think that I am crazy,	red dog 1	Oct 2022	#134
Maybe - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ohiya	Nov 8	#146
Excellent guess, but no.	red dog 1	Nov 8	#147
Excellent guess, but no.	red dog 1	Nov 8	#148
"In short, this young, handsome, successful, happily-married-three-lovely-children-	red dog 1	Nov 2022	#135
"He began his pullout at a thousand feet, wingtips thudding and blurring in that gigantic wind,	red dog 1	Nov 2022	#137
"Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are"	red dog 1	Nov 3	#138
"Of all the people in the world, the Clutters were the least likely to be murdered."	red dog 1	Nov 4	#139
"In Cold Blood"...	Harker	Nov 9	#149
I love the guy!	red dog 1	Nov 23	#154
"There was a slight hassle with the jailers over whether I was to go in to see him or not.	red dog 1	Nov 6	#140
"He walked into the garage and started to tinkle with a carburetor under the hood of	red dog 1	Nov 8	#141
"The muzzle of the Luger looked like the Second Street tunnel, but I didn't move"	red dog 1	Nov 15	#150
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."	red dog 1	Nov 17	#151
J D Salinger: Catcher in the Rye	LeftishBrit	Nov 20	#152
You Got It!	red dog 1	Nov 23	#155
"Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself"	red dog 1	Nov 24	#156
"Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree"	red dog 1	Nov 27	#157
"The little person who leads this trio is an inspired man. His fiddle is out of tune,	red dog 1	Dec 1	#158
"He no longer needed fishing boats and stale bread for survival"	red dog 1	Dec 3	#159
Just a guess--The Old Man and the Sea?	First Speaker	Dec 3	#160
No, good guess though	red dog 1	Dec 12	#163
"My glass was empty. I asked her what she would have to drink, she said	red dog 1	Dec 11	#161
"Joe, remember that stuff you sent me to test for thermal stability?	jmowreader	Dec 12	#162
"Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."	red dog 1	Dec 17	#164
"Never trust a cop in a raincoat"	red dog 1	Dec 18	#165
"furry Pooh Bear, keeper of the flame, voyaged back from the asphalt seas of the great wasted land:	red dog 1	Jan 5	#166
"When he awoke, he saw angels mating overhead. For a few seconds longer, Axxter watched them,	red dog 1	Jan 15	#167

Response to red dog 1 (Original post)

Thu Jun 16, 2022, 05:51 PM

applegrove (111,098 posts)

1. Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to

stand in memory of her who relinquished her past as I gained my stubborn one.

Post a line or 2 from a novel & see if anyone can guess the novel without using Google

1. Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to

4. Look Homeward Angel by Tom Wolfe

7. The Stone Angel by Margaret Lawrence (canadian)

9. Ah, well! A stone, A leaf, an u found door.

10. What is that from?

11. I guess I'll add it to the list!

2. "They danced down the street like dingledodies..." n/t

3. Picking up the telephone, he said, 'Leon, I thought you would like to know. She's here".

5. "Yes. It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration,

47. Dickens: Tale of Two Cities

48. Yes! My favorite of Dickens' works.

12. A stone, A leaf, an unfound door.

119. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

13. breeze and blade

14. don't like metaphor

15. Should I delete my response?

16. your choice

17. call me ishmael

19. Moby-Dick.

20. Yep!!!!

18. There was a desert wind blowing that night.

25. I know it's Chandler...Lady in the Lake?

29. Yes, Raymond Chandler - Red Wind (1938)

21. I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low country, inked

22. "The Prince of Tides"

23. I love that book and I love that movie. Heartbreaking.

24. So do I. Heartbreaking, indeed.

49. Pat Conroy was a beautiful writer. nt

50. Yes, I loved that book and movie!

68. Pat Conroy is one of my literary heroes

26. The United States in now on the verge of civil war.

27. "I can dodge folly without backing into fear."

28. "Isn't it pretty to think so."

30. "Hello, sir. Yes...Uh-huh...Yes...

31. "The man in black fled across the desert...and the Gunslinger followed."

33. It's from a Stephen King novel

37. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

38. You got it!

32. "Temperatures were taken twice a day in the ward..Early each morning and late each afternoon.

41. Catch-22?

54. Ding!

34. "We pull up to the garage an there is a panel truck parked just outside, painted in blue, yellow,

35. "There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed."

39. The General's Daughter?

45. Am grateful for the wild guess - thought there would be no reply but no. Clue, was made into a movie

46. Since I didn't guess correctly, I googled it

51. Brilliant book, much underrated movie.

55. Please let me know when you read/see it - am very interested in your reaction!

36. I'm terrible at these, but here is one of my all-time favorites:

56. The Major must have been a Republican. n/t

59. No political affiliations are stated in the book

69. Was that "Major Major"?

70. His name in the novel is Major Diamond.

71. I was thinking it might be from "Catch 22"

73. The book is called "Shibumi"

40. "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security

42. This sounds like Solzhenitsyn...

43. Gulag Archipelago is correct

44. The "Gulag" is one of the great books ever written...

52. "If you rode the Black Shadow at top speed for any length of time....

114. That sounds like a line from The Great Shark Hunt

115. Yes, he was also infatuated with shooting golf....

57. "But that's bullshit, Randy..."

58. "Stone burner... stone burner..." -NT-

61. Dune?

62. Which One? -NT-

60. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

66. George Orwell: 1984

63. "I said, 'Hold on just a minute, I'll be right with you soon as I finish this chapter' and it was

64. "The flooded New England valley made a beautiful holiday spot, with twenty miles of

65. "Damn your eyes. What's that pump stopping for?"

72. "Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it."

82. "The Exorcist."

83. Ding!

85. ...

74. "The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it."

75. "He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up

143. Catch 22

145. "That's some catch, Catch 22"