Name that book

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:13 pm

So here's the game. I quote a line or explain a plot, you solve it. Then it's your turn.

"'Where are you going?'
'To put AdÃ¨le to bed: it is past her bedtime'"

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:39 pm

My mother says: "Jane Eyre!"

Then she says: "A fortnight later..."

katydid · Post by **katydid** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:51 pm

"Pride and Prejudice"?

"Cheeky little beggar."

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:56 pm

"The Secret Garden"?

"Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
Blunt the knives and bend the forks!"

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:58 pm

That is so The Hobbit.

Um... "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

katydid · Post by **katydid** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:02 pm

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

"It was December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened."

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:25 pm

The Giver, I believe. (My mother is cheating. It's her fault.)

"You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:45 pm

Eragon!

"'I think you really look like the kind of guy who is some kind of genius on the inside but doesnâ€™t necessarily even know it himself. I bet youâ€™ll go far in acting.'"

Bob, you can't answer this one.

361 · Post by **361** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:40 pm

Bob's nanowrimo... (don't know the title... couldn't find bob's profile on the nanowrimo site)

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:46 pm

My book doesn't have a title yet, actually. On the site I think it says something like, "I Really Have No Idea."

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:16 am

The answer is Nueromancer, by someone. I've never read it. Is it good?

"Where is daddy going with that axe?"

yellow m&m · Post by **yellow m&m** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:36 am

Charlotte's Web?

"The girl, however, has buried herself in the same research you're doing"

if you can't get that one,

"Ayce smiled. And so winter turned to spring"

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:40 am

Ooo! I <3 John Grisham! Pelican Brief!

The other one is harder. Google is of no help.

Oh well. I got one of them.

"You are the murderer that you seek!"

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:45 am

Oedipus

"That was impossible. We were at sea. Visitors did not stop to call! "

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:46 am

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Loke that book.

"Iâ€™ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

yellow m&m · Post by **yellow m&m** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:08 am

The Great Gatsby

I'll make this one easier (although if you can guess my other one you get brownie points)

"She saw the glass wobble. It actually tilted backwards a fraction of an inch, than righted itself again."

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:02 pm

I want to say Matilda, but I am not sure at all.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:49 pm

I think you're probably right.

"And it came to pass..."

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:45 pm

Even my four-year-old sister knows where that one came from.

"It's far away, with someone I can never have."

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:22 pm

You win.