Novel First Lines

[G-man]

Novel First Lines: a forum word game.

It's quite simple, really. A poster posts a first line from a famous novel and the next poster identifies the novel containing that first line.

I'll start with an easy one:

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish.

[Mustang]

The Old Man and the Sea-Earnest Hemingway


Next:

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

[G-man]

Originally Posted by Mustang

The Old Man and the Sea-Earnest Hemingway


Next:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby! One of my favorite works of literature.

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, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

[Mustang]

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities!

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap., but I don't feel like going into it.

[AussiePam]

Catcher in the Rye..

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

[Mustang]

Douglas Adams-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

[AussiePam]

Love that book, Mustang!!! But I've already answered one, and shall leave it to someone else!!

[Kathy Ellen]

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


"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.


What novel is this from....
You better not never tell nobody but God.

[AussiePam]

Haven't a clue, Kathy

[G-man]

Originally Posted by Kathy Ellen

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


"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.


What novel is this from....
You better not never tell nobody but God.

Another favorite... To Kill a Mockingbird.

...It'd kill your mammy! Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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