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the "Guess the book that quote is from" thread
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Posted by: chaosisreality
Thread name basically explains it all... and the idea is derived from SKYHN's Name that Game, so props to him.
Guess the books these quotes are from (All different books, so you post what you think the book title and author is. An added hint, none of them are George R.R. Martin  ):
1. "A few days down there will give me a shot at the epilectic whore, which has become one of my life's ambitions, and in this general geographic location that's the only thing that intrests me more then a mermaid."
2. "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe."
3. "Pick the three members of your team that know the Dordogne region best. Drive to the airport at Bergerac. Do not bother to pack. We'll supply everything when you get here."
4. "You owe me thee farthings, say the bells of St. Martin's,
When will you pay me? say the bells of Old Bailey--"
5. "More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun, and you don't have to think, eh?"
Those are just for starters, if someone gets them I'll post more. 
Posted by: compukeith
Not sure about the others, but is the second one from "There and back again"?
Posted by: chaosisreality
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Originally posted by compukeith
Not sure about the others, but is the second one from "There and back again"?
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If you mean The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again then no.
Posted by: compukeith
No. I meant a book titled just "there and back again." it's a sci-fi book that i read about 5 years ago. Really good book.
Posted by: chaosisreality
Nope anyway, though. 
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Uhm, are all those quotes from the same book? Or is each quote from a different book? Sounds like all of em are from a British author...
A couple of those sound like they'd come out of a George R.R. Martin book...
Posted by: chaosisreality
All different books (I'll edit that into the instructions). None are George R.R. Martin though.
Posted by: BooRadley
1: Catch-22?
2: Vonnegut of some flavour? Like the Childrens Crusade?
3: Not Dune is it?
Kind of guesses. I'm pretty sure about #1 though. Well, not sure, but kind of close.
Posted by: chaosisreality
BooRadley:
All are wrong, but Catch-22 was a close guess for the first one. Keep them coming.
Posted by: BooRadley
It reminds me of the guy who kept seeing the hysterical French whore who beat him over his head with a shoe, which made him laugh senselessly, so I kind of associated the two.
The second one just sounds like Vonnegut, and the third was pretty much a wild guess.
Posted by: chaosisreality
-Bump
Don't tell me you guys don't read...
Posted by: laborat
percentage wise... you might find that figure higher than you think...of people who don't read...throw in the international flavor of the internet and you have people who read but not what you do...I still believe that binary will be the language of the future together with gestures like the monkeys have...doubt if Dickens would be popular then...
Posted by: Spider
Many of us read, Chaosisreality, but with millions of works of literature, it's fairly unlikely everyone has read all of the same works. As far fetched as that may seem...
Posted by: chaosisreality
Eh, was jabbing at you just to bump this post back up. But of these quotes, #4 and 5 everyone should have read sometime in school, #3 you might have read, #2 I am shocked Null hasn't posted yet, and #1 I am almost certain no one would get, it's an older book.
This might not have been a good idea... but in a few days, I'll post the answers anyway.
Posted by: Spider
2 I think is the universe hitchhiker or whatever can't think of the name
4 is 1984
5 is familiar, I want to say farenheight 451 but I'm not quite sure.
Posted by: chaosisreality
Guess that was enough of a hint.
Your guess at #2 was off, but:
#4 - 1984 by George Orwell.
#5 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Good job
Posted by: Spider
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I remembered.
Wasn't sure about Farenheight, it's been about ten years since I read that.
Posted by: chaosisreality
#4- "You like bowling, don't you Montag?"
"Bowling, yes."
"And golf?"
"Golf is a fine game."
"Basketball?"
"A fine game"
"Billiards, pool? Football?"
"Fine games, all of them."
"More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun, and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and super organize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere. The gasoline refugee. Towns turn to motels, people in nomadic surges from place to place, following the moon tides, living tonight in the room where you slept this noon and I the night before."
--Excerpt from Fahrenheit 451
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#5- To his astonishment, she capped the line:
"You owe me thee farthings, say the bells of St. Martin's,
When will you pay me? say the bells of Old Bailey--"
I can't remember how it goes on after that. But anyway it ends up, here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head!"
--Excert from 1984
The book I got quote #2 from wasn't the hitchhikers guide, but it may be in two books...
Posted by: Spider
Perhaps I'm wrong about the Hitchhiker's Guide then.
Posted by: uh...ok
I'm sure that plenty of people have read this one... it just happens to be one that I've dug up recently in a trip down memory lane.
"It may be," replied [character name removed so it's not that obvious], smiling, "we know least what we treasure most. But we will have more than enough to keep us busy when you come back, and you will learn, my boy, there is nothing like work to put the heart at rest."
Posted by: Null Actor
the second one is asimov
Posted by: Canis Lupus
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Originally posted by chaosisreality
everyone should have read sometime in school
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Oh, sorry, was busy getting laid back then...
Posted by: laborat
Lassie, come home.
Posted by: chaosisreality
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Originally posted by uh...ok
I'm sure that plenty of people have read this one... it just happens to be one that I've dug up recently in a trip down memory lane.
"It may be," replied [character name removed so it's not that obvious], smiling, "we know least what we treasure most. But we will have more than enough to keep us busy when you come back, and you will learn, my boy, there is nothing like work to put the heart at rest."
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I have no clue, but kind of sounds like LOTR.
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Originally posted by Null Actor
the second one is asimov
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gg.
Oh thats right, the answers and quotes.
1. MASH by Richard Hooker (Which is why I said Catch-22 is a good guess)
2. Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
3. Timeline by Micheal Crichton
4. 1984 by George Orwell.
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
This didn't hit it off, I think a couple of them may have been to obscure.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
One line from a book instead of five lines from five different books would've hit it off better...
Posted by: chaosisreality
Yeah, but the problem is that there are so many books it's hard to read them all. If I had said, "In what book does it say: Thing one and Thing two, they ran up, they ran down...", everyone would know. 
Can't be too easy, can't be too hard, but I'll work on it and revive this thread at some point.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
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Originally posted by chaosisreality
If I had said, "In what book does it say: Thing one and Thing two, they ran up, they ran down...", everyone would know.
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Depends on the book ... if I said the following line:
".. blood so sweet, so sweet to drink the blood, the blood that drips, drips, drops so red; pretty eyes, fine eyes, I have no eyes, pluck the eyes from out your head; grind your bones, split your bones inside your flesh, suck your marrow while you scream; scream, scream, singing screams, sing your screams..."
Most people can guess it if they read the book, basically coz it's a memorable line... of course, if it was just any random passage from a book (i.e. "I declare these games ... open!" - what book is that from), it's harder to distinguish which book, and even if you DO get answers, it won't be from a lot of people, and most of them would be wrong, anyway.
As you said, there are so many books it's hard to read them all ... so why post quotes from five instead of just one? and have the one who answered correctly give his own line for people to guess? 
Make it too easy and anyone can guess it, yes ... but make it too hard and no one would participate coz they don't know it ... which of these two is the "lesser evil"?
Posted by: chaosisreality
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Originally posted by Canis Lupus
Depends on the book ... if I said the following line:
".. blood so sweet, so sweet to drink the blood, the blood that drips, drips, drops so red; pretty eyes, fine eyes, I have no eyes, pluck the eyes from out your head; grind your bones, split your bones inside your flesh, suck your marrow while you scream; scream, scream, singing screams, sing your screams..."
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Originally posted by Canis Lupus
Most people can guess it if they read the book, basically coz it's a memorable line...
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If someone had read MASH (I didn't expect many to, the book was published in 1968 and is now out of print) and didn't remember the quote about the epilectic whore and mermaids, then they need to go to the doctor to check for senility because that was the highlight of the book.
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Originally posted by Canis Lupus
As you said, there are so many books it's hard to read them all ... so why post quotes from five instead of just one? and have the one who answered correctly give his own line for people to guess?
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Good idea, so you start.
Go.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
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Originally posted by chaosisreality
Good idea, so you start.
Go.
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I already did ... *points to the quote two posts up*
Posted by: Null Actor
I recognize it. I want to say LOTR, but I haven't read the books and I don't think a line like that was in the movie.
Posted by: Erekose
ooo, i recognize it, and yes shaking with fear is an apporpriate response. problem is i don't recall the title of the book... but i could look it up, my bookcase is three feet to the right of me. but i think i'll leave this one to someone else. just wish i could recall the name of who said that...
Posted by: uh...ok
Blah. As added incentive, I'll add another quote: this one from is the last of the same series that the above quote I posted.
"There are those," [name removed] said gently, "who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won."
Posted by: DemonBob
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Originally posted by Canis Lupus
".. blood so sweet, so sweet to drink the blood, the blood that drips, drips, drops so red; pretty eyes, fine eyes, I have no eyes, pluck the eyes from out your head; grind your bones, split your bones inside your flesh, suck your marrow while you scream; scream, scream, singing screams, sing your screams..."
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Wheel of time Book One: Eye of the world. The wind from the ways. Cant remember the name.
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