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

[Dr. Strange]

The February edition went remarkably well, so let's try it again, ya bunch of incredibly literate bastards. Give us some lines from a novel, and we'll try to identify it.

And if we get any wrong, flvegan will post pictures of pies.

[Dr. Strange]

1. I love this line:

"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor."

[CreekDog]

6. Farewell To Arms

:think:

[Dr. Strange]

7. Wrong!

I do have a line from that novel, though:

"Fucking hell! Where are my arms?"

[CreekDog]

17. Hemingway. So easy to read

So hard to grasp. :dilemma:

[Rabrrrrrr]

48. Moron, it's A Moveable Feast.

:eyes:

Farewell to Arms is in ITALY. not PARIS.

Idiot.

:eyes:

[Dr. Strange]

2. And another.

The monkey didn't help matters any. He was sitting on top of the microbus, just watching the undead plunge to their end. His face appeared so serene, so intelligent, as if he truly understood the situation. I almost wanted him to turn to me and say, "This is the turning point of the war! We've finally stopped them! We're finally safe!" But instead his little penis popped out and he peed in my face.

[Chan790]

3. World War Z n/m

[Dr. Strange]

5. That's it, ya zombie-lover!

[Bertha Venation]

4. "'Get off the turtle, son.'"

An all-expenses-paid trip to Cucamonga for anyone who can name the novel.

[SteppingRazor]

8. Keeping on the zombie theme, how about this:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."

[Dr. Strange]

12. I can't decide if I want to read that book or not.

[LisaM]

42. I bought it and the problem is that it's written at about a second-grade level

It's distracting.

[Eyerish]

13. That would be Pride, Prejudice & Zombies...

I'm half-way through it right now.

[Glorfindel]

14. "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

by Seth Grahame-Smith. I've been "dying" to read it ever since I heard about it. Maybe I'll put it on my Christmas list.

[TZ]

9. Okay nerds lets see who can get this one

"In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose..."
Yes its a little bit of a trick question as well.

[Dr. Strange]

10. Is this one of those boddice ripper novels?

The ones with Fabio's nipples on them?

[TZ]

16. lol

Not quite--although the main male character has three girlfriends, like Hugh Hefner...;)

[Glorfindel]

11. "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan

I think every novel in the series has that sentence. Right?

[TZ]

15. Ding ding ding!

We have a winnah!!! :applause:. I didn't expect anyone to get it that quick...:)

[CreekDog]

18. TZ changed her avatar

i guess the Nationals season is over by now. :hide:

[TZ]

19. I see you are busy doing an imitation of your sig line pic...

HE- HAAAAAAWWW

[flvegan]

20. Salt in the wound.

I love it.

[MissMillie]

24. I'm guessing it's

one of the books of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

[TZ]

30. Nope. Its Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series...:)

FLVEGAN...I WANT MY PIE RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!111!!! :P ;)

[Dr. Strange]

33. Um, yeah, about your pie.

Um, someone peed on it. Is it okay if we settle for "pee-pie"?

[TZ]

34. DuFreak.

Thats your new nick.

[flvegan]

21. Okay, fitting for the Lounge: Nearly all children nowadays were horrible

What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party.

[Lucy Goosey]

22. Nineteen Eighty Four?

[flvegan]

25. Yes, well done.

No pie pictures for you!

[MissMillie]

23. "At the center of the light,

...a black silhouette of a figure moved as if walking, the image was to vague to tell if it approached or walked away. But wherever it was bound, something in its posture suggest firm resolution. Am I meant to follow? or should I wait its coming?"

[TZ]

28. Doh wrong spot!

[Dr. Strange]

29. .

Edited, 'cause TZ fucked up the placement of the post to which I am responding to.

[TZ]

32. Freak.

Is that you Symarip?

[MissMillie]

31. No, that's not the book... but I'll bet

that particular book was written by Homer Simpson.

[flvegan]

36. Pie!

[MissMillie]

37. You are Soupy Sales today?

or are you turning us into Soupy Sales?

I forget if he threw the pies, or took the pies.... (they say the memory is the first thing to go.

[flvegan]

38. He was a pie taker.

I'm a pie giver. At least according to "Dr" Strange.

[Dr. Strange]

39. Since when does a bowl of mashed potatoes count as "pie?"

That would be my question to you.

[flvegan]

40. Has it become that kind of party?

Because if it's gonna be THAT kind of a party...

[krispos42]

26. Okay, here's one

No world would ever be tamed by robots. It took men, crossing space, some awake, some chilled, a hundred years across space-- The early days were good days. We were comrades in an untamed land.

Then we found Paradise, and they didn't need me at all. They need Sylvia. They need the engineers and the tractor drivers, and, God help us, the administrators and bean counters, but never a soldier.

(Italics in original)

[jobycom]

27. "“Not being tied to what God looks like, frees us."

[Broken_Hero]

35. Okay,

"He thrusts his fists against the post and still insists he see's the ghost"


Thats one novel, another one....

"That my dear, is a Deep Space Cowboy"

Another hint for the line above, can opener...after reading this novel you can never look at a can opener the same way ever again.

[Mad_Dem_X]

44. I know the first one!

"IT" by Stephen King.

[Broken_Hero]

45. Bingo

on the first one, and the first one is hint of the second one....:hi:

[XemaSab]

53. The second one is Lisey's Story

and you're 100% right about the can opener. :scared:

[Broken_Hero]

56. Bingo, :)

Congrats, the can opener part was...well, eye opening. :hi:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

41. ...

"Now imagine just beyond your peripheral vision, maybe behind you, maybe to the side of you, maybe even in front of you, but right where you can't see it, something is quietly closing in on you, so quiet in fact you can only hear it as silence."

[DevonRex]

47. House of Leaves by somebody whose name starts wtih a Z.

I confess I haven't read it but came upon it on a different discussion board a couple of months ago.

[LisaM]

43. "Hast hit it, friend wiggle".

By far my favorite line in all of fiction.

[Dr. Strange]

60. I had to check which Narnia book it was.

[XemaSab]

63. The Silver Chair?

:shrug:

[Dr. Strange]

64. Yup.

[DevonRex]

46. "Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains.

You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."

[petronius]

49. I had a guess, but Google shows me I was wrong. I thought it was from the same place as this:

"The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters."

[DevonRex]

50. Yours is "A River Runs Through It." I loved that book. :)

[av8rdave]

52. One of the most beautifully written books ever

[armyowalgreens]

54. The Road

Cormac McCarthy.

That book made me weep.

[DevonRex]

55. Ding Ding Ding!!!! It was so real and raw and simple. One of my

favorite books ever. :hi:

[kimmerspixelated]

51. Okay, This is from?

"And yet".

[martymar64]

57. Here's a challenging one

He was really pissed off at life. He suppressed a sob, got up stretched to relieve the pain of having spent so long in the same postion and was about to ask his friend if he felt like scoring another bundle of weed , when he noticed the river water had gone red. The red preceded a dead body. The grey of the day intensified ominously. Red swirling into the current, another corpse. The clouds blotted out the mountains completely. Red and another stiff appeared at the bend in the river. The light rain turned into a storm. Red, yet again followed by a carcass. Blood mixing with stinking water accompanied by yet another body wearing Lee jeans, Adidias sneakers sucking out the red liquid, still warm.

[darkstar3]

58. From one of the worst books ever written...

comes some of the best quotes ever taken out of context.

Here's one that hasn't been overly used in today's sci-fi (hint, hint)

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

[WinkyDink]

61. Something by L. Ron Hubbard.

[darkstar3]

62. I said ONE of the worst books ever written,

not THE worst. Wrong author.

[UTUSN]

59. "There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed." n/t

[Glorfindel]

65. "The General's Daughter"? That line is so familiar...

n/t

[UTUSN]

66. NOoooooo!1 But clues are not allowed in this game, are they?!1 Thanks for Replying!1 n/t