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[ciroccoj]

1. What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died?
   Love Story, Erich Segal, guessed by bast2
   
   
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.
   The Chrysalids, John Wyndham, guessed by daf9
   
   
3. Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity - Good. His dad had the pickup going.
   Hint: this children's book has been banned in several schools.
   
   
4. Lessa awoke, cold.
   Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey, guessed by shellmidwife and linaelyn
   
   
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.
   Hint: "There! Is! No! Sanctuary!"
   
   
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.
   Hint: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
   
   
7. The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years.
   Hint: I have none. Sorry!
   
   
8. The primroses were over.
   Watership Down, Richard Adams, guessed by shellmidwife
   
   
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.
   Hint: The fifth picture on this page.
   
   
10. When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself.
    Danny, Champion of the World, Roald Dahl, guessed by Starstruck :)

Oh and BTW, does anybody know where I could download American Pie, Don McLean version? I had it, but now cannot locate my tape.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I'm not anonymous, I'm just forgetful...can never make this link look right anyways.

Starstruck (http://wibberley.blogspot.com//)

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

Well, then. I haven't read the book, but 5. must be Logan's Run? I suspect the film has a different name than the novel, however, and I haven't a clue who the author might be.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Ding! And the authors are William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson :)