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reynardo ([personal profile] reynardo) wrote2011-05-13 04:53 pm

Another Bloody Meme

From [livejournal.com profile] starduchess.

Rules:

*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.

I'm going to pick four that hopefully people will know.



Book 1.
First sentence:
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Last sentence on page 50: "That is not very credible."
Second sentence, page 100: "And now it stands to reason that your uncle Featherstone will do something for Mary Garth."
Second last sentence, page 150: As easily as there may be stupidity in a man of genius if you take him unawares on the wrong subject, or as many a man who has the best will to advance the social millenium might be ill-inspired in imagining its lighter pleasures; unable to go beyong Offenbach's music, or the brilliant punning in the last burlesque.
Final sentence: But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.



Book 2.
First sentence:
"We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.
Last sentence on page 50: Sansa, two years older, drew the crown prince, Joffrey Baratheon.
Second sentence, page 100: Magister Illyrio laughed lightly through is forked beard, by Viserys did not so much as smile.
Second last sentence, page 150: "That was my lady's sister you were hitting, did you know that?"
Final sentence: I will take my crown, as Urron Redhand did five thousand years ago.



Book 3.
First sentence:
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'
Last sentence on page 50: She was moving them about as she spoke, but no results seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant green leaves.
Second sentence, page 100: 'What is the fun?' said Alice.
Second last sentence, page 150: no such page.
Final sentence: Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

sheesh but some writers could go on a bit!!!!

Book 4.
First sentence:
It was the opening day of the summer term at Meadowbank school.
Last sentence on page 50: So have I.
Second sentence, page 100: In many ways, it was a pity that Springer was dead.
Second last sentence, page 150: "One certainly hopes not," said Hercule Poirot
Final sentence: "A most unusual woman..."

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