The guess the opening line of great novels game

[Don Quixote]

He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead.

No one going to get this?

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

No one going to get this?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

Clue?

 

[Goldstone1976]

No one going to get this?

I've studiously ignored it, because I know I should know it, but can't remember - which is even more embarrassing than just not knowing it at all.

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Then I'd be into Google, I'm afraid!

At Swim Two Birds.

 

[Goldstone1976]

"For a long time, I went to bed early".

If you've read it, I pity you. Even though it's a classic.

 

[Goldstone1976]

At Swim Two Birds.

That I should have had a go at.

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

"For a long time, I went to bed early".

If you've read it, I pity you. Even though it's a classic.

In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past?

 

[Tarpon]

"For a long time, I went to bed early".

If you've read it, I pity you. Even though it's a classic.

Proust. Have not read it but must have been hidden away somewhere...

 

[Tarpon]

No one going to get this?

A distant voice says Sci-Fi?

 

[Goldstone1976]

In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past?

 

[bhafc99]

"It was the day my grandmother exploded."

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Clue - great novel, aimed at kids by MM.

 

[Mowgli37]

Red Dwarf

Right in one!

 

[Mowgli37]

"It was the day my grandmother exploded."

The Crow Road?

 

[KZNSeagull]

Clue - great novel, aimed at kids by MM.

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

"But Granny is sooooooo boring," said Ben.

 

[bhafc99]

The Crow Road?

Yup.

 

[Goldstone1976]

"Well, prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes!"

 

[Hillian1]

Call me Ismale

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Call me Ismale

Moby Dick.

 

[Hillian1]

Moby Dick.

I've been trying to read it for about 5 years and am only half way through, really heavy on description. At one point there is about 5 pages describing eating a bowl of stew.