You Got 79% Right!
Very very nice. You've got the basic classics down cold, and a few of the less mainstream ones as well. You get a gold star for brightness!
Famous First Lines Quiz
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So it's a while since I read any fiction (Pratchett and Neal Stephenson don't count)...
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Hey, I got 79% too! And I was just guessing for a whole lot of them.
Shhh!
Now I'm frustrated. I was doing a lot of guessing there, and they don't give the correct answers after you take the quiz, so now I'm going to have to actually read all those books to find out which ones I got right and which ones I got wrong.
Surely that's not what they intended, is it?
No, Michael. You only have to read the first lines.
But then they suck you in...
Bob (93%)
Can I strongly recommend you don't try to read the Bulwer-Lytton?
Oh dear. I've just been reminded of something.
Bob
I wonder how many books are famous primarily for their first lines, such that almost everyone knows the line, and relatively few have read the book.
Bulwer-Lytton, obviously. Possibly Moby Dick as well (yes, I've read it). Then there's Dickens' "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times..." (David Copperfield? Haven't read it anyways).
Google some more. There was a wonderful blog by a blogger now retired to his Professor job, which solicited favorite first lines from readers. The thread was well over 100 comments long, and probably included over 1,000 first lines.
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