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Post by Eldarion on Jan 27, 2005 17:12:59 GMT -5
Okay, let's start a new quote game so I can play something until a movie or song comes up that I can name.  Book Quote Game Rules: 1. Name the book. 2. For extra points (a free round in the Pub), name the author and character, if any. 3. Person who gets it right gets to post the next quote challenge. Here's the first one: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."Good luck! |
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Post by Asya on Jan 27, 2005 17:25:50 GMT -5
Total guess. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Never read it, but it sounds like it would begin there. If I'm wrong, is there a limit to the number of guesses? Cause I can try all the other books written since 1922. At least that way I don't have to go back to the lost works of the Alexander Library.
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Post by Eldarion on Jan 27, 2005 17:29:16 GMT -5
Guess to your heart's content, Asya! Entries are limited only by the bandwidth and available storage capacity of this forum.
And, no, that's not it.
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Post by demosthenes on Jan 27, 2005 20:20:32 GMT -5
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
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Post by Morbid Eclipse on Jan 27, 2005 21:26:26 GMT -5
Note: Neuromancer is NOT to be confused with Necromancer
While a necromancer deals with the dead, the neuromancer is the right-brain of artificial inteligence.
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Post by Eldarion on Jan 27, 2005 21:41:59 GMT -5
Correct, Demo! Great book. That's one of my favorite opening lines of all time. Totally sets the tone.
You have one for us?
(By the way, to clarify for everyone, the book quote does not have to be an opening line.)
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Post by demosthenes on Jan 27, 2005 23:06:34 GMT -5
A sentence:
"The vision continued; a vast multitude, gazing at me intently, swept actorlike acros the stage of consciousness."
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Post by Morbid Eclipse on Jan 28, 2005 16:30:24 GMT -5
that is a very good one...it's stumping me  ...must...think...harder... |
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Post by demosthenes on Jan 29, 2005 18:12:26 GMT -5
so...did I kill the topic with a quote from a book not part of popular culture and which cannot be googled? ;D
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Post by Indagatrix on Jan 29, 2005 18:15:03 GMT -5
so...did I kill the topic with a quote from a book not part of popular culture and which cannot be googled? ;D Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda yes? |
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Post by demosthenes on Jan 29, 2005 18:16:34 GMT -5
don't play fire with the arsonistYou win . I'll have to choose a quote from a more obscure book next time that noone ever reads. Maybe the Oxford english dictionary.
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Post by Morbid Eclipse on Jan 29, 2005 18:23:23 GMT -5
I like this topic. I've never read that book, so now I will go see if it's at the library  |
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Post by Indagatrix on Jan 29, 2005 18:47:20 GMT -5
don't play fire with the arsonist. You win To paraphrase a certain Sicilian: And don't enter a battle of wits with a librarian when book quotes are on the line.  (j/k) This quote is from one of the best American writers ever. ---hint: this quote is kind of tricky ~ google may lead you astray---- "Social..." "What?" they yelled "...equality--" The laughter hung smokelike in the sudden stillness. |
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Post by demosthenes on Jan 29, 2005 18:57:24 GMT -5
Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison
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Post by Indagatrix on Jan 29, 2005 19:10:10 GMT -5
Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison Nope--but you are getting warm. |
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Post by demosthenes on Jan 29, 2005 19:21:59 GMT -5
Invisible Man by same guy
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Post by Indagatrix on Jan 29, 2005 19:26:02 GMT -5
Very good Every other quote I wanted to use from it was easily searchable via Google. So I had to grab something from the first part of the book, which was a short story--at one point in time--but the book, if you haven't read it--it is a must read. Your turn. |
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Post by demosthenes on Jan 29, 2005 19:39:54 GMT -5
"Nearly everyone feeds quite literally upon the fruits of this cruelty. In order to continue doing so, we must be able to disassociate the actual producers - the animals themselves - from their 'products': meat, milk, eggs, leather, fur [...]"
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Post by Indagatrix on Feb 1, 2005 20:20:38 GMT -5
Floating Opera by John Barth ( I know it's wrong--but thought I would bump the thread) lol, nice -Yoko |
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Post by demosthenes on Feb 3, 2005 16:20:18 GMT -5
ok, that was too obscure ;D
It's from Fruits of Paradise by Rebecca Hall
To make up for it, here's an easy one.
two words: "Encyclopedia Galactica"
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Post by Eldarion on Feb 3, 2005 17:08:24 GMT -5
Is it fair when it's that easy? Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by (the sorely missed) Douglas Adams. |
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Post by demosthenes on Feb 3, 2005 18:21:24 GMT -5
The term was probably first used by Isaac Asimov, in his Foundation Series. Douglas Adams only used it in comparison with his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, if I remember correctly (his tribute to the old master). Your turn eld |
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Post by Eldarion on Feb 6, 2005 3:10:50 GMT -5
Yep, Asimov coined that. Ah, I miss that grand old man. What a great mind. Did you ever read that new Foundation trilogy, by Bedford, Brin, and Bear? Good stuff.
Okay, here's the next round...
The great doors slammed to. Boom. The bars of iron fell into place inside. Clang. The gate was shut.
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Feb 6, 2005 9:03:21 GMT -5
The great doors slammed to. Boom. The bars of iron fell into place inside. Clang. The gate was shut. Two Towers (Book 4), J.R.R. Tolkien. It's good to be up earily (sometimes). |
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Post by demosthenes on Feb 6, 2005 10:41:51 GMT -5
new foundation trilogy? wow, I was totally unaware of that. have to look it up when I'm free. ;D
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Post by Eldarion on Feb 6, 2005 12:23:09 GMT -5
Correct, O He Who Is Unclean! |
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Feb 6, 2005 21:42:37 GMT -5
Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware that he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier that year.
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Post by Morbid Eclipse on Feb 6, 2005 22:05:03 GMT -5
Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware that he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier that year. -Tim Burton my brother loooves him for some reason |
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Feb 6, 2005 22:10:22 GMT -5
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy -Tim Burton my brother loooves him for some reason Correct. |
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Post by Morbid Eclipse on Feb 6, 2005 22:34:09 GMT -5
We stop at a refugee camp cemetary. It seems to go on for miles. There are newly dug graves. I am told they are mostly children.
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(j/k)
