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book meme
A book meme stolen from shiny_crystal:

1. List the first line(s) of 10 books you really like.
2. And then you all can guess.
3. Post your opinion of the book when someone guessed it.

#3 I won't do since I really like all of these.


1. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de
la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from
Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the
Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion
and Rion island. - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

2. The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by Joanne K. Rowling

3. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

4. No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

5. Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness - a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. - White Fang by Jack London

6. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

7. "What's it going to be then, eh?" - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

8. Ennis Del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminium door and window frames. - Brokeback Mountain by Annie E. Proulx

9. As soon as I got to Borstal they made me a long-distance cross-country runner. I suppose they thought I was just the build for it because I was long and skinny for my age (and still am) and in any case I didn't mind it much, to tell you the truth, because running had always been made much of in our family, especially running away from the police. - The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe

10. When I was five I killed myself. - I was waiting for Popeye who comes after the News. He has large wrists for a person and he is strong to the finish. But the News wouldn't end. - When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten


So! What do you think these are?