that meme

[ciroccoj]

My day has had highs and lows, but, on a balance, has rather sucked. So instead of writing about it, I'm revisiting that meme where you write the first sentence of ten books and then people guess what they are. I think I did about three of these back when the meme was all the rage, but back then I used ten (twenty, thirty, whatever) of my favourite books, or books that meant something to me personally. This time I'm using ten books that more than one person other than the author has probably read ;) In other words, best-sellers of one kind or another.

1. What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died?
   
2. When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange because it began before I even knew what a city was.
   
3. Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity - Good. His dad had the pickup going.
   
4. Lessa awoke, cold.
   
5. The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength.
   
6. Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
   
7. The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years.
   
8. The primroses were over.
   
9. One of the luckiest accidents of my wife's life is that she happened to marry a man who was born on the 26th of September.
   
10. When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself.

How many do you know? And how many of the authors do you know?

Comments

[bast2.livejournal.com]

1. is Love Story by eric segall. #10 sounds very familiar, but i can't quite place it.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Ding! for Love Story :)

[umbo.livejournal.com]

4 is the first Dragonrider book by McCaffrey. 8 is Watership Down by Richard Adams. A couple other sound familiar, but I'm not sure from where.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Yes to both :) The Dragonrider book is Dragonflight.

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

4. Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffery. A longtime favorite of mine, for all of McCaffery's flaws in later books.

I know I've read 2. and 10. As a wild guess for the former? James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl?

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

4. Dragonflight,
Yup!

A longtime favorite of mine, for all of McCaffery's flaws in later books.
Ah yes. For me it's the whole excessive listing thing that confuses the bejeebers out of me in some of her later books.

2. and 10. As a wild guess for the former? James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl?
Nope, #10 is by Roald Dahl. Just not the peach one :)

[(Anonymous)]

Danny the Champion of the World

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo!

[daf9.livejournal.com]

#2 is John Wyndham's The Chyrsalids

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Ding!

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

Clearly, I need to read more.

*places dunce cap on head*

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Clearly, I need to read more.
This may be one of the funnier things I've read today :D :D :D :D :D