meme with a twist!

[strawberryknees]

☇ Take four books off your bookshelf.
☇ Write the first sentence
☇ Write the last sentence on page fifty
☇ Write the second sentence on page one hundred
☇ Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
☇ Write the final sentence of the book
☇ Let your friends guess what book it is.

to add a twist... If anyone can guess all four before I post the answers, I will buy them two-months paid time. No joke. 'Course... I have a somewhat strange taste in books and while two are pretty well-known, two of 'em are a tad more obscure. Though the last one has a major hint as to the series in one of the lines. |D

I'm seriously doubting anyone could guess all four, so. |D


BOOK ONE: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchet [ guessed by spiffynamehere ]

☇ Polly cut off her hair in front of the mirror, feeling slightly guilty about not feeling very guilty about doing so.
☇ He was praying.
☇ "Lied to 'em for years."
☇ "Can't have the poor man chokin' to death, Perks!"
☇ And the new day was a great big fish.

BOOK TWO: 'Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis [ guessed by spiffynamehere ]

☇ I am old now and have not much to fear from the anger of gods.
☇ "Why should the Accursed not be both the best and the worst?"
☇ "We must go on; further on this line."
☇ "I must, the, rest tonight."
☇ The Priest who comes after me has it in charge to give up the book to any stranger who will take an oath to bring it into Greece.

BOOK THREE: Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein [ partially guessed by toastofrassilon ]

☇ If you are a dreamer, come in.
☇ They never buy the bad ones!
☇ Up to my elbows-- up to my face
☇ To kill and die is such a bore
☇ What do I search for now?

BOOK FOUR: The Paradise War by Stephen Lawhead [ not guessed XD ]

☇ It all began with the aurochs.
☇ But, on the off chance that he'd stumbled and hit his head on a rock, I crawled around the interior of the cairn to make sure he wasn't lying unconscious in the dirt.
☇ The interior of the building was suited to its gigantic occupant.
☇ "We could be doing irreparable damage."
☇ For I had heard the Song of Albion and my life was no longer my own.

HAVE AT IT.

Comments

[masatchi.livejournal.com]

One is... Well, I don't know the book, but I have a guess at the author? Madeleine L'Engle? And I should know three, because I know I've read that line before, but I just can't remember...

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

Nope!

And three is obscure. I'll give you a hint, it's not a narrative. ;)

[masatchi.livejournal.com]

Drat.

No, I know it's poetry. And I'm fairly certain I've read it in class, I just can't remember what year it was... Gaaaah. This is going to bug me all night now.

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

qwafsjd. Sorry! >:

[masatchi.livejournal.com]

No no, not your fault at all... It's just that I know I've read the first quote, and I'm fairly certain I've read the fourth quote as well... I'm pretty sure I even know what grade I read it in too.

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

You'll probably go "OH!" when you realize it. :3

[toastofrassilon.livejournal.com]

I like how google linked me to your entry when I searched for one of those quotes. :|b

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

LOL. CHEATER.

[toastofrassilon.livejournal.com]

THAT'S NOT THE POINT. :|

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

IT TOTALLY IS.

good luck with some of those, btw.

[toastofrassilon.livejournal.com]

I know 3 is Shel Silverstein, but idk what book it is. :| /did not cheat on that one

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

/clapclap

[toastofrassilon.livejournal.com]

:DDD

At the theatre camp I used to go to, we did a play based on Shel Silverstein poems. It was kind of amazing.

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

... that sounds amazing.

[spiffynamehere.livejournal.com]

One is most def Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett. And two is... Til We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis, yes?

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

Yup! I don't think anyone's going to manage all four. |D

[todd-fan.livejournal.com]

Monstrous Regiment *__*

/fawns over.

I used to play Mal.

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

I love that book. *___*

asldkjfds. YOU DID? That is awesome. The world needs more Discworld RPers.

[todd-fan.livejournal.com]

It's my favourite Disc book

mal_addict I did. No doubt one day I'll bring her into Para.

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

Same. :3

That wound be amazing. *_* and I know I've seen her PB somewhere but I can't place her. D:

[todd-fan.livejournal.com]

Shannyn Sossamon she was the love interest in a Knights Tale. I forget what else she's been in XD

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

That's it! Jocelyn! :D

For all the lulz and historical inaccuracy, I love that movie.

[todd-fan.livejournal.com]

Yes!

Oh man, I know right? It's gorgeous.

[strawberryknees.livejournal.com]

Not to mention hilarious.

'And one and two and three and four and Wat doesn't lead he follows like a girl.

'And one and two and three and four and you can hit me all day cause you punch like a what..?'

'A girl!'