Are You A True Bookworm? - Answers
So, did you manage to prove your love of literature by guessing which famous books those 10 first lines came from? Well, here are your answers - how many did you get right?
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." - Catcher in the Rye
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” - Pride and Prejudice
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.” - The Great Gatsby
“You better not never tell nobody but God.'' - The Colour Purple
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings." - Frankenstein
“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.” - The Princess Bride
"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living." - 2001 - A Space Odyssey
"The war in Zagreb began over a pack of cigarettes." - Girl at War
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.” - Ulysses (James Joyce)
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