First Line Quiz--The Solution
OK, here are the results from last Friday's quiz:
- The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
--William Gibson, Neuromancer - Sooner or later, it was bound to happen.
--Arthur C.Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama - My wife, Utchka (whose name I some time ago shortened to Utch), could teach patience to a time bomb.
--John Irving, The 158-Pound Marriage - Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude - The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant.
--John Gardner, Grendel - What's it going to be then, eh?
--Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange - All this happened, more or less.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House Five - Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.
--Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly - It was love at first sight.
--Joseph Heller, Catch 22 - We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
--Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - --Totally naked, for God’s sake?
--Anthony Burgess, M/F - They’re out there.
--Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.
--Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint - In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
--J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit - My father lost me to The Beast at cards.
--Angela Carter, The Tiger Bride - Call me Ishmael.
--Herman Melville, Moby Dick - All nights should be so dark, all winter’s so warm, all headlights so dazzling.
--Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park - This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
--William Goldman, The Princess Bride - In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.
--John Barth, The End of the Road - Mother died today.
--Albert Camus, The Stranger
5 points for each correct title/author combination guessed without hints; or
3 points for each correct title/author combination after the hints; or
1 point for each correct title or author when you got only one right.
The maximum score = 100 points.
So how did you do?
<=10 points: These are my favorite books in all the world, though you have never read them.
11-20: We've read a few of the same books.
21-40: We've got some interesting connections.
41-60: Whoa, you've been pilfering my library.
61-80: OK, you're either my brother or my shrink.
81-90: Were we separated at birth?
91-100: In a sense, we are Jacob Horner.
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