Couldn't be simpler... Just identify the NOVEL from which the quote is taken...
(1) "I learned a new word today... Atombomb..."
(2) "I scowl in frustration at myself in the mirror."
(3) "I'm pretty much fucked."
(4) "I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
(5) "We spent some time shopping and wandering around Glasgow during that first day, before we went back to my parents' place for dinner and - in a sudden shower, dodging traffic - we ran across Renfield Street, holding hands."
(6) "Power is in tearing the human mind to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
(7) "Sometimes, I feel the past and future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."
(8) "Come In! Come In!" he sobbed. "Cathy do come. Oh, do, once more! Oh!"
(9) "Pretending to like it until he comes and then finish it off myself anyway."
(10) "Some day I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient."
xx SF
*BOLDED* ones answered correctly!
I've only got 1, 8, & 10
8 is one of my all time faves, and 1 I only know from the film.
And I thought I was reasonably literate until I saw this little lot!! The only one I can make a vague stab at is no. 8, which may be Wuthering Heights, but I've probably even got that wrong!
I reckon you just made up the rest yourself Steph.... ;)
I was reading for someone yesterday 50 Shades of Grey and I would swear that I read quote number 2 in there...
Don't recognize the others... guess if I have read those books it probably wasn't in English.
Number 5 MUST be Mr Banks!!
(and I'd guess Dead Air, because you told me you read that recently - although you said it was by Ian McKewan hahah)
1) "I learned a new word today... Atombomb..." EMPIRE OF THE SUN
(2) "I scowl in frustration at myself in the mirror." 50 SHADES OF GRAY
(3) "I'm pretty much fucked." THE MARTIAN
(4) "I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." DORIAN GRAY
(5) "We spent some time shopping and wandering around Glasgow during that first day, before we went back to my parents' place for dinner and - in a sudden shower, dodging traffic - we ran across Renfield Street, holding hands."
(6) "Power is in tearing the human mind to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." GEORGE ORWELL SAID IT...
(7) "Sometimes, I feel the past and future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all." BRIDESHEAD REVISTED
(8) "Come In! Come In!" he sobbed. "Cathy do come. Oh, do, once more! Oh!" WUTHERING HEIGHTS
(9) "Pretending to like it until he comes and then finish it off myself anyway."ULYSSES
(10) "Some day I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient." GONE WITH THE WIND
MYSTERIA27 WON!!!!!!
(I thought that would be MUCH HARDER!!!)
xx SF
*Thinking Of A HARDER one RIGHT NOW!!!*
To my shame I've actually read most of these books (with the exception of 50 Shades) and am still none the wiser!!!! *shakes head sorrowfully and forgets own name*
Okay, you bunch of fucking perverts...
NEW QUIZ!!!
(btw did you know the word 'QUIZ' was invented by academics who wanted to see if they could popularise a brand new word? That's true!!)
Today, we're doing SONG LYRICS. Identify the SONG, (extra points for the Artist!!) Easy, right?
(1) "Calling all in transit..."
(2) "Her thighs are full of tales to tell of all the nights she's known..."
(3) "You want a rough, rough ride, you want a cool, cool stroke? Whatever you whine, Orion..."
(4) "You stay inside this foolish grin, though any day your secrets end..."
(5) "Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye..."
(6) "There's still some of the same stuff we got yesterday..."
(7) "Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, She's got the Mercedes Benz..."
(8) "So wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty, you know that I'd do anything for you..."
(9) "A Bop A Loo Bop A Bam Boom..."
(10) "Riding high in April, Shot down in May..."
Good Luck!!!
xx Steph
okay, i got number 7 and that's it. pathetic. must stop listening to enigma, lol.