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?
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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