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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Hello - just back from two weeks of bird-watching in beautiful New Zealand.
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot - which some of us were reading together only a few months ago.
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Welcome back, Bookpossum! i hope you saw lots of birds.
Where did you go?
You're right, of course.
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Last words from some famous works.
One point each for author and title.
1. I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience. -
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen -
Billi 2 points
2. "Thank goodness!" said [Bilbo] laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar. -
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien -
Dreams 2 points
3. ... 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. -
Middlemarch, George Eliot -
Bookpossum 2 points
4. As soon as they had strength, they arose, joined hands again, and went on. -
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy -
poohbear_nc, 2 points
5. "Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!" -
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott -
Daithi 2 points
6. The Knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off. -
Catch-22, Joseph Heller -
Orlok 2 points
7. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something. -
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke -
Daithi 2 points
8. [Aunt Sally] she’s going to adopt me and civilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before. -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain -
Dreams 2 points
9. Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis -
pdurrant 2 points
10. "Well, I’m back,” he said.
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien -
pdurrant 2 points
11. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck -
Daithi 1 point,
poohbear_nc 1 point
12. ... and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. -
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte -
poohbear_nc, 2 points
We have a tie! Daithi and poohbear, decide between yourselves who goes next. I don't think duels are acceptable these days, though.
Final scores:
Daithi, Poohbear - 5 points each
Dreams, pdurrant - 4 points each
Billi, Bookpossum, Orlok - 2 points each