meme, the game...

[tirsden]

(EDIT: The guessing game is over)

Snagged from Black Manta, also the source of the last post.

1. Choose five to ten of your all time favorite books.
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess! Cross them off as they're guessed correctly.

Ready? Here goes!

1. I am the vampire Lestat.
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

2. He seemed incapable of creating such chaos, but much of what he saw below could be blamed on him.
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

3. The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

4. On the day Dr. Richard Kimble's world was destroyed, he had been running nonstop: from home to hospital to surgery to rounds without stopping for food or a moment's breath.
The Fugitive by J.M. Dillard

5. The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering.
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

6. It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white.
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock

7. To a surface dweller, he might have passed undetected only a foot away.
Homeland by R.A. Salvatore, first book of the Dark Elf Trilogy

8. Willie McCoy had been a jerk before he died.
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton, first book of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series

9. Run! Standing in the shadows of the alley near the heart of the Old City, Vassily Malenkov pressed back into the stone wall and wished he could turn invisible.
XXX by Mel Odom, based on the motion picture written by Rich Wilkes

10. Why?! Why am I so unlucky?
Only The Ring Finger Knows by Satoru Kannagi and Hotaru Odagiri, a yaoi manga

Comments

AHAHAHA... *snarkle*

[tirsden.livejournal.com]

I ran some of these lines thru the Gematriculator (http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/). The most noteworthy follow:

Lestat: 1% evil, 99% good

Fugitive: 87% evil, 13% good

Last Unicorn: 98% evil, 2% good

Jurassic Park: 1% evil, 99% good

Guilty Pleasures: 1% evil, 99% good