Yeah, it's hard, but let's play NAME THAT NOVEL.

[Dr. Strange]

Give us some lines from a novel, and we'll try to identify it. Although we probably won't be able to, because DAMN that's hard.

[HopeHoops]

1. "It was a dark and stormy night."

[Dr. Strange]

4. Nice post, Bulwer-Lytton.

[HopeHoops]

5. Correct! Bonus points for the name of the novel!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. I thought Snoopy was hanging in the hood

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iT4ZkZ9zras/SUXgQTZsBKI/AAAAAAAAAX4/IWXOZmOtz7E/s320/snoopy+it+was+a+dark+and+stormy+night.jpg

[Dr. Strange]

12. Paul Clifford.

Not that I've read it, I just like the Bulwer-Lytton Contest. :)
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

[HopeHoops]

141. Bingo

[Dr. Strange]

2. mcctatas will like this one.

“You shouldn’t just kill a guy without asking. It’s inconsiderate.” Tommy was from Indiana, and his mother had raised him to have good manners and to be considerate of other people’s feelings.


“Oh, crap, there’s burrito spooge all over my new sneakers.”


“Look at this. What’s happening to me. Look at this!” He was pointing furiously to his penis. “It’s like I’m some radioactive mutant freak.”
Jody went to him and grabbed his hands—held him steady, looked him in the eyes. “Tommy, calm down. It’s just your foreskin.”

All from the first chapter.

[Redneck Socialist]

7. LOL! That's a great book

I won't name it so as to not ruin other's fun, but I love that author.

[Arugula Latte]

15. "burrito spooge"

:rofl:

That would be a great DU name.

[MrCoffee]

70. Awesome book!

Like the toaster, I control the darkness

[Dr. Strange]

81. Just for that...another line from the book.

So they loaded him into the ambulance, and just as they were shutting the doors, he reached out his hand, like he was a drowning man reaching for the last spark of his mortality before the inky waves of death swept him away--so I flashed my boobs for him, just a quick lift of my bra and top at the same time, because I don't think we do enough to help the homeless, and I wanted him to die a happy man. And besides, they're small and I don't get that many requests.

[MrCoffee]

90. "Yeah, like you'd know,"

Tommy said, cupping his nose and mouth as if covering a sneeze. "Listen, I'd love to discuss this with you, buddy, but right now you have to GO HOME AND WASH YOUR ASS! You smell like you're smuggling a stockyard back there!"

[mcctatas]

93. Are you casting asparagus on my character?

:rofl:

“Tommy, calm down. It’s just your foreskin.” new sigline for me? :P

[Dr. Strange]

98. You'd have the single greatest sigline ever.

People would worship you, like those islanders in that one book with the cargo cult and the talking fruit bat.

[mcctatas]

148. Island of the Sequined Love Nun?

I just read his newest one, Fool, it was damn funny :hi:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

158. Foreskins are cool!!! Please, they are there for a reason!

Hilarious book. I googled it. Pretty funny.

[rug]

3. Call me fishmeal.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. Moby Duck?

[BurtWorm]

48. Troutfishing in America?

[TZ]

9. and they lived happily ever after...

:P

[Arugula Latte]

17. Romeo and Juliet?

;)

Okay, okay, it's a play, I know ...

[EastTennesseeDem]

24. Hamlet

[Dr. Strange]

28. Pursuing Romo: the Autobiography of madeinmaryland

[LynneSin]

10. The Temperature hit ninety degrees tha day she arrived.

New York was steaming -- an angry concrete animal caught unawares in an unseaonalbe hot spell. But she didn't mind the heat or the littered midway called Time Squares. She thought New York was the most exciting city in the world.

[geardaddy]

27. Breakfast at Tiffany's?

:shrug:

[geniph]

125. Valley of the Dolls!

LOL, haven't thought of that book in years.

[DarkTirade]

11. "I wasn't questioning your authority, Archchancellor," he said. "I just feel

that if a huge monster evolves into a chicken right in front of you, the considered response should not be to eat the chicken."
     The Archchancellor licked his fingers, "What would you have done, then?"

[LadyoftheRabbits]

179. Ooh!

I might know... one of the Terry Pratchett books? :P

[Parche]

13. Ok

"Tenacity Dick, stay with them until they are on the bottom"

:woohoo: :hi:

[Dr. Strange]

16. Okay, I probably should have included this in the rules, but...

no porn.

[BurtWorm]

14. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

[Arugula Latte]

18. Okay:

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell" - and tore it up.

[BurtWorm]

20. I'm reading it to my daughter.

Good book.

PS: Make that great book, of course. We just got past this part.

[Arugula Latte]

181. P.S.: It's Huck Finn for those who were wondering

[EastTennesseeDem]

19. Won't give the name of the characters

I hope the dialogue will give it away.

"Canned food is a perversion," (protagonist) said. "I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul."
"Lord, my elbow's starting up again," (protagonist's mother) sighed.
"Please, I am speaking," her son told her. "I never eat canned food. I did once, and I could feel my intestines starting to atrophy."

[Dr. Strange]

21. Hey, I know that one!

I had to Google to make sure I was right.
And yeah, the name would have given it away.

[EastTennesseeDem]

23. My favorite of all time

I've lost count how many times I've read it. It is staggering genius. What a shame the author took his life.

[XemaSab]

143. I know this one

:bounce:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

157. I know this one...is it ok to tell?

[Sequoia]

173. Dang it posters, do tell us the name of the book !!!

The rest of us might want to read it.

[Arugula Latte]

178. I'm guessing it's "Confederacy of Dunces"

:shrug:

[DeepBlueC]

180. yes

[BeachBaby]

22. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

[Dr. Strange]

26. The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells.

:hide:

[jobycom]

37. Oh! That was an episode of Cheers where Frazier was reading a book to Norm and Cliff!!

"Tis a far, far better butt-kicking I give, than any I have given before."

Great writing!

[fishwax]

85. Cliff: boy that dickens guy sure liked to keep his butt covered, doesn't he

In response to: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of belief; it was the epoch of incredulity (and so on)."

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

61. Tale of Two Cities.

By Charles Dikkens ... that's Dikkens with two Ks, the well-known Dutch author.


(I should get bonus points for the Monty Python reference)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

159. I found out why Charles Dickens was nuts.

He had been a court stenographer in the British court system, doing squiggles in Pitman (squiggles invented before Gregg shorthand).

I used to be a court reporter (on a stenograph doing machine shorthand) and I went crazy from the stress. However, it also made his novels true to life, because it's a great opportunity to observe people.

We had to read "Great Expectations" in school. Oliver Twist and Tale of Two Cities are FAR better.

[geardaddy]

25. Here's some lines from a classic

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."

"In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw."

"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."

[EastTennesseeDem]

31. Gotta love Holden

:hi:

[geardaddy]

33. Yep, one of my faves!

:hi:

[av8rdave]

36. That one is too easy!

[geardaddy]

43. I initially left the last quote off.

:D

[Lethe]

165. i dispute your claim as a classic

if Salinger was alive today i'd go upside his head with a right hook and demand my four hours back. That novel is totally without merit, and completely damned by the fact that Chapman produced a copy of it and read while the cops came to the scene of Lennon's murder.

If I want to read the idiotic rants of some trust fund, smart ass teen, I could accomplish the feat every night on the internet without having to read 5 star amazon reviews.

[Brother Buzz]

29. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow...

[seaker]

32. To Kill A Mocking Bird

One of the best American novels! I think it is the only one she wrote.

[SCantiGOP]

91. trivia re mocking bird

Do you know who the nerdy kid who had moved in from out of state actually was? It was Truman Capote, and he and Harper Lee were friends for life. She is still alive but never wrote another book.

[seaker]

94. Thank you, SCantiGOP

I love learning more about them. Was Truman in the movie or portrayed? Do you happen to know why she never wrote again?

[elleng]

164. She wrote;

just not a novel.

Lee, Harper (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: J. B. Lippincott.
Lee, Harper (1961) "Love—In Other Words". Vogue Magazine.
Lee, Harper (1961) "Christmas to Me". McCalls Magazine.
Lee, Harper (1965) "When Children Discover America". McCalls Magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee

[KamaAina]

30. "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

:shrug:

[av8rdave]

38. Isn't that F&LiLV?

[KamaAina]

44. DING DING DING!

:thumbsup:

[BurtWorm]

39. Fear

and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Is that a novel? ;-)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

161. And a hilarious movie with Johnny Depp and B. del Toro

:D :rofl:

[11 Bravo]

109. Damn it! You beat me to it!

[moggie]

126. ...

[KamaAina]

34. "Canned food is a perversion... I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul."

:-)

[Dr. Strange]

40. Um...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8534767#8534892

[EastTennesseeDem]

46. Great minds think a helluva lot alike apparently

Think of it that way.

[KamaAina]

49. Yes, but were you ever compared to Ignatius

by an authentic New Orleanian?

Was your mom unable to finish "Dunces" because Ignatius reminded her too much of her only son?

Didn't think so.

[Dr. Strange]

53. Pfftth!

Was your mom unable to finish "Dunces" because Ignatius reminded her too much of her only son?

We have got to see to it that THIS is placed on your tombstone. (After your untimely passing, of course.)
:rofl:

[KamaAina]

60. Not until I'm appointed Senator, dammit!

:P

[EastTennesseeDem]

62. Your post is a vile offense against taste and decency

You will be tried in a court of decency and be found wanting.

I'd flame more, but the Yogi Bear Program is on.

[schmuls]

35. Alas, Babylon was a private, family signal.

[raccoon]

45. My favorite! ALAS, BABYLON, by Pat Frank. published 1959.

Durn, you beat me to it! :hi:

[schmuls]

79. I gave you a heart for loving Alas, Babylon!!

[raccoon]

88. Thanks, schmuls! :hi: nt

[av8rdave]

41. We are who we pretend to be, so be careful who you pretend to be.

(From the forward).

[Twillig]

50. Mother Night

Kurt Vonnegut. RIP.

[Dr. Strange]

51. I knew it sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember it. So I looked it up.

And, of course, I've read it. :blush:

[av8rdave]

57. One of my all time favorites

[geardaddy]

42. Here's another

"Dwayne's only companion at night was a Labrador retriever named Sparky. Sparky could not wag his tail--because of an automobile accident many years ago, so he had no way of telling other dogs how friendly he was. He had to fight all the time. His ears were in tatters. He was lumpy with scars."

[Twillig]

151. Well, I can't let this go unanswered: Breakfast of Champions

More KV.

*

[geardaddy]

168. Yep, good job

I loves me some KV.

[BurtWorm]

47. Above him there was now nothing but the sky-

the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it.

[Bertha Venation]

Johnny died three days later.

Too obscure, too obscure.

[Witchy_Dem]

80. The Outsiders

[Bertha Venation]

92. Hmm... not the book I had in mind. But maybe!

[Witchy_Dem]

95. I don't own the book anymore. After I posted it occured to me that the

part where Johnny dies refers to his life ending like a candle being snuffed out. So I figured I was wrong.

[raccoon]

52. "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether

that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

[geardaddy]

55. David Copperfield?

:shrug:

[raccoon]

56. Yep! nt

[geardaddy]

59. that was a total guess!

lol

[EastTennesseeDem]

54. "Do you think your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook?

Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground."

[SteppingRazor]

58. In my humble opinion, one of the greatest opening lines of a novel ever:

"The sky was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

[moggie]

99. One of William Gibson's? n/t

[SteppingRazor]

103. Yes! n/t

[moggie]

120. It's very Gibson

I just can't remember which one!

[Dr. Strange]

122. I'll say Neuromancer.

But only because that's the only one of his novels that I have.

[Bertha Venation]

101. I've never read _1984_ but wouldn't be surprised . . .

[SteppingRazor]

102. Nah. The first line of 1984 is...

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

Although, while that's a pretty good opener, 1984 is more memorable for me for the incredibly aggravating ending.

[BurtWorm]

63. The flowers had been too strong for the huge beast and he had given up at last,

and fallen only a short distance from the end of the poppy bed, where the sweet grass spread in beautiful green fields before them.

[crispini]

69. Wizard of Oz.

Great book. :D

[BurtWorm]

71. Excellent!

:thumbsup:

[SteppingRazor]

64. Here's an easy one:

"I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn..."

[BurtWorm]

67. On the Road

[FloridaJudy]

72. Kerouac

I'm guessing at the novel: On the Road? That's the only one most people read.

Here's an easy one: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice".

[SteppingRazor]

73. 100 Years of Solitude.

The only GGM novel most people read ;)

[BlueIris]

82. People really should branch out; "Love in the Time of Cholera" is much better.

I think.

[SteppingRazor]

97. With respect, I must disagree.

Not that I don't like Cholera -- it's a great book. But 100 Years of Solitude is ridiculously good. As I said in the post below, I believe it's one of the all-time great works of Spanish literature. It makes Cervantes look trite.

[FloridaJudy]

84. Love in the Time of Colera was pretty cool too.

There was also one I picked up in the bargain bin, but it's in Spanish. Near as I can tell, it's something about prostitutes: my Spanish isn't that good. I thought it was a hoot, because it was being sold by an evil Big Box store - which I shall not name but can easily be guessed - well known for its prudery. I wondered about the guy who bought a couple million of these things for inventory: his Spanish must be even worse than mine.

[SteppingRazor]

96. I'm guessing that's his most-recent book, Memories of my Melancholy Whores.

As for Cholera, I liked it and, obviously, a lot of other people do too -- it was his first novel after winning the Nobel, so it's probably his most famous work. But I think 100 Years is one of the greatest masterpieces of the Spanish language. It's breathtaking, if a book can be described as such.

[BurtWorm]

74. Cien Anos de Soledad

[moggie]

107. Miu had heard of Jack Kerouac

and had a vague sense that he was a novelist of some kind. What kind of novelist, though, she couldn't recall. "Kerouac... hmm... Wasn't he a Sputnik?"

[charlie and algernon]

65. Here goes...

Dr. Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on. I dont no why but he says its importint so they will see if they can use me. I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye they can make me smart.

[Dr. Strange]

68. No idea, charlie and algernon.

:spray:

That was an awesome story. I should read it again.

[av8rdave]

66. Here's an easy one

We had to be very careful in dealing with each other. I often thought of him as a boy, but I never could treat him that way. He was never "my kid brother." He was a master of an art. He did not want any big brother advice or money or help, and, in the end, I could not help him.

[geardaddy]

116. Of Mice and Men?

:shrug:

[av8rdave]

155. Nope....but that's a logical guess

[av8rdave]

169. Before the thread dies...

A River Runs Through It (Norman Maclean)

[crispini]

75. Here's one that's a pretty famous novel, but a somewhat obscure passage.

Still, though, one of my favorite bits of the book:

"But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic -- their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground."

[BurtWorm]

77. The Great Gatsby.

[crispini]

137. Right!

[BlueIris]

76. "The candleflame and the image of the candleframe caught in the pierglass twisted and righted

when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door."

[crispini]

78. And another

"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now."

[geniph]

121. Gravity's Rainbow?

[crispini]

136. Yep!

[BurtWorm]

83. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes,

and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

[Dr. Strange]

87. Nice choice.

:thumbsup:

[BurtWorm]

86. The island being then hovering over a mountain about two miles from it,

I was let down from the lowest gallery, in the same manner as I had been taken up.

[BurtWorm]

89. The wedding was very much like other weddings, where the parties have no taste for finery or parade;

and Mrs. Elton, from the particulars detailed by her husband, thought it all extremely shabby, and very inferior to her own.--"Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business!--Selina would stare when she heard of it."--But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union.

[FloridaJudy]

100. Jane Austen

I must admit I used the Google to narrow it down to Emma.

Here's another relatively easy one.

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

[BurtWorm]

104. You're right about Emma

I have no clue what book your quote comes from. I have to think about it.

[moggie]

129. Doubleplusgood line there

[moggie]

105. Here's an easy one

Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.

[BurtWorm]

106. I know it's Graham Greene.

Can't remember which one.

PS: Brighton Rock? Is that the name of Greene book?

[moggie]

108. Ding!

Pinkie is one of the most brilliantly realised petty villains ever.

[moggie]

110. Every Chautauqua should have a list somewhere

of valuable things to remember that can be kept in some safe place for times of future need and inspiration.

[TZ]

111. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence?

Thats the only book off the top of my head that I know talks about Chautauqua.

[moggie]

113. Yup! n/t

[moggie]

112. A short story, rather than a novel

Instead of seven thousand thirteen (7013), he would say, for instance, "Maximo Perez"; instead of seven thousand fourteen (7014), "the railroad"; other numbers were "Luis Melian Lafinur", "Olimar", "sulfur", "clubs", "the whale", "gas", "a stewpot", "Napoleon", "Agustin de Vedia".

[BurtWorm]

119. Borges

But I can't remember the name of the story.

[moggie]

127. Funes, His Memory

Borges indeed.

[moggie]

114. The orange light looks like a gasoline fire

It comes in through people's rear windows, bounces off their rearview mirrors, projects a fiery mask across their eyes, reaches into their subconscious, and unearths terrible fears of being pinned, fully conscious, under a detonating gas tank, makes them want to pull over and let the Deliverator overtake them in his black chariot of pepperoni fire.

[XemaSab]

144. Snow Crash

:eyes:

[moggie]

145. Correct!

[geniph]

115. "Millions, billions, light-years of frogs,

each no bigger than a quarter..."

[geniph]

117. "In five years, the penis will be obsolete."

[FloridaJudy]

139. John Varley!

One of my favorite authors. Now if I could only remember the title...

[geniph]

149. Steel Beach

Best first line EVER.

[FloridaJudy]

152. Thanks!

I had to leave the house, and without access to the Google that's been bugging me all evening.

I'd worry about having a bad case of CRS, but Varley's almost as prolific as Stephen King.

[moggie]

118. "I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider,

and the orchids are an excuse for the heat. Do you like orchids?"
"Not particularly," I said.
The General half closed his eyes. "They are nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men. And their perfume has the rotten sweetness of a prostitute."

[geniph]

123. The Big Sleep

[moggie]

128. Correct

[geardaddy]

124. Here's an easy one:

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.

[WinkyDink]

130. Thank you! "Lord of the Flies."

[geardaddy]

131. Ding!

Hot dog! We have a wiener!

[MrCoffee]

132. Here's one...

2. And bye the border of Dan, fromme the east side to the west side, a portion for Afher. 3. And bye the border of Afhter, fromme the east side even untoe the west side, a portion for Naphtali. 4. And bye the border of Naphtali, from the east side untoe the west side, a portion for Manaffeh. 5. Buggre Alle this for a Larke. I amme sick to mye Hart of typefettinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges noe more than a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone half an oz. of Sense should bee oute in the Sunneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the liuelong daie inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe. @*"AE@;!* 6. And bye the border of Ephraim, from the east fide even untoe the west fide, a portion for Reuben.

[moggie]

135. Good Omens?

[MrCoffee]

142. Victory is yours...have a Queen tape.

[FloridaJudy]

140. Finnegan's Wake?

Sure reads like it.

[sarge43]

133. "...... .....'s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the

more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal."

(Left out the protagonist's name. Dead give away)

[geardaddy]

134. Jabberwocky?

[sarge43]

138. Afraid not. n/t

[Lavender Brown]

146. Here's a really easy one

"In the deep shade, at the farther end of the room, a figure ran backwards and forwards. What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight tell: it groveled, seemingly on all fours: it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair wild as a mane, hid its head and face."

[geniph]

150. That sounds like Jane Eyre to me

where she meets Rochester's wife...

[FloridaJudy]

153. Either that or "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan"

Similar scenes in both books.

[Lavender Brown]

154. Yep!

[XemaSab]

147. "I've been a disgusting girl."

:)

[Dr. Strange]

166. "Uh-oh--don't touch that! Tales from the life of XemaSab" by Rabrrrrrr

:patriot:

[Lethe]

156. Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!

What a pleasant greeting.

I wonder who could have said it?

[XemaSab]

160. Does he live in a freaky old castle in Transylvania?

:shrug:

[Lethe]

162. Maybe

But he moved into a swanky old place in Carfax Abbey

edit: i still think that's a fairly gracious thing to say for a salutation

[Manifestor_of_Light]

163. French novel. 19th century.

We were in study hall when the headmaster entered, followed by a new boy not yet in school uniform and by the handyman carrying a large desk. Their arrival disturbed the slumbers of some of us, but we all stood up in our places as though rising from our work.
The headmaster motioned us to be seated; then, turning to the teacher:
"Monsieur Roger," he said in an undertone, "here's a pupil I'd like you to keep your eye on. I'm putting him in the last year of the lower school. If he does good work and behaves himself we'll move him up to where he ought to be at his age."

[BurtWorm]

167. Mme Bovary

That's a description of M. if memory serves.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

170. Correct!!!!

DING DING DING!!

An excellent book!

And I don't read very much fiction.

[Parche]

171. Ok

"Pilot who bombed you yesterday, regrets his actions, and has been grounded indefinately
pilot no longer pilot"

:woohoo: :hi:

[Sequoia]

172. It was a pleasure to burn.

It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.

[XemaSab]

177. Fahrenheit 451

n/t

[Sequoia]

174. You're all a bunch of biblibilbulis !!!

[RedCloud]

175. En un lugar...

?

[Duncan Grant]

176. First book that came to mind:

A dog -- it was a dog I saw for certain. Or thought I saw. It was snowing pretty hard by then, and you can see things in the snow that aren't there, or aren't exactly there, but you also can't see some of the things that are there, so that by God when you do see something, you react anyhow, erring on the distaff side, if you get my drift. That's my training as a driver, but it's also my temperament as a mother of two grown sons and wife to an invalid, and that way when I'm wrong at least I'm wrong on the side of the angels.

[harmonicon]

182. 00000