Book Quiz

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I got 10/17.

[snipsnsnails]

Fun! I got 14/17 but I don't count the one where I missed 50 Shades of Gray. Ha!

[ElizabethBennet]

I got 10/17.

I consider it a win I didn't know the opening line of 50 Shades of Grey.

[snipsnsnails]

Aug 21, 2013 14:27:39 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

I got 15 out of 17, but for the life of me, I have never read a single fucking thing by Paul Coelho, in whose favor that "classic literature" post seems to be seriously skewed.

We once had a raucous, sangria-fueled book club discussion on The Alchemist with 22 people in my living room screaming at one another about a book supposedly about peace and enlightenment. @imback - you were at that one weren't you???

[wambam]

I think it's weird to have a quiz with "what's the first line." Like I would remember that.

[snipsnsnails]

Oooh, I love a good first line. Stephen King has said he spends months (sometimes even years) crafting a good one. The best first line ever was in the quiz. It belongs to Anna Karenina.

[ElizabethBennet]

The Alchemist was an awful, awful book.

[game blouses]

I got 14/17. I've been avoiding Anna Karenina forever.

[lightbulbsun]

11/17

[UMaineTeach]

8/17

except 6 and 10 the rest I got right were lucky guesses. and I got 6 right from watching the movie Matilda and not reading the book (Matilda or the answer book).

[luckyval]

I got 10 out of 17 right, but a couple were educated guesses

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Aug 21, 2013 14:31:20 GMT -5 snipsnsnails said:

Aug 21, 2013 14:27:39 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

I got 15 out of 17, but for the life of me, I have never read a single fucking thing by Paul Coelho, in whose favor that "classic literature" post seems to be seriously skewed.

We once had a raucous, sangria-fueled book club discussion on The Alchemist with 22 people in my living room screaming at one another about a book supposedly about peace and enlightenment. @imback - you were at that one weren't you???

I was at the Blindness by Jose Saramago book club.  We discussed what we'd do in a disaster scenario.  I remember that even though I'd said on ML that I'd want it to be over quick, at the bookclub I was all oh I'd try to survive.  Really I'd probably be one of the first to meet my demise and wouldn't have a choice either way. 

[circa1978]

Aug 21, 2013 14:42:10 GMT -5 game blouses said:

I got 14/17. I've been avoiding Anna Karenina forever.

Well stop it right now. One of my top 10 favorite books. 

[Deleted]

16/17.

Never read any Paulo Coehlo.

50 Shade of Grey was a guess. It's a shitty first line, so I picked the shittiest book. LOL.

[chickadee77]

I got 15/17, but am cringing that they included Fifty Shades of Grey and Twilight. If this is for "literature nerds," uhm. I'd have done better with classic literature, lol.

[cbwm1]

15/17

Not too shabby!

[wildfloweragain]

I used to memorize last sentences of books, for no good reason. I always thought "What if I have to remember how it ended?"

[Deleted]

15/17 but two were by process of elimination.

[Deleted]

14.

And I'm illiterate.

[demelza]

10/17

[Deleted]

I feel perfectly fine about the three I missed.

[BlackCanary]

I got 9/17.   Fuck if I know how 50 Shades of Grey starts. 

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

9 of 17. Mostly educated guesses. I was praying when I opened it that "call me Ishmael" would be on there. And the Pride and Prejudice one...well...obvs.

[sporklemotion]

15/17, but I wish I had gotten the Fifty Shades one wrong. Or that I had stopped at that line and not read the rest.  I missed Life of Pi and Twilight, both of which i'd read.  Paolo Coehlo was a dead guess, though.

[Jermys]

12/17. I missed Twilight and 50 Shades. I'm okay with that.