Don Quixote
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He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead.
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The guess the opening line of great novels game
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ah! The unlimited dream company! One I haven't read - should I?
"The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village. It stood on its own and looked out over a broad spread of West Country farmland."
h2g2!
Shatner's Bassoon
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"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
Red Dwarf
Shatner's Bassoon
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Pride and Prejudice?
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Easy one.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Pogue Mahone
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Oh yes. Very trippy, but absolutely enthralling - unputdownable. I think that it was the first book I read by the great man - fair to say he won me over.
Pogue Mahone
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When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
Shatner's Bassoon
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Pogue Mahone
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I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday.
Pogue Mahone
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How did SB manage to answer this one before you asked it?
Shatner's Bassoon
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How did SB manage to answer this one before you asked it?
Edna is my other account. Or NSC is playing up a bit at the moment.
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How did SB manage to answer this one before you asked it?
I was wondering the same
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Read this for the first time a couple of months ago as part of a quest to broaden my literary experience & tick off a few more classic novels. Next up: The Great Gatsby
