h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In this game, you have to write the first sentence of a book and others have to guess which book it's from. A correct guesser then gives a new line.

Easy one to start with:

Call me Ishmael

that ones easy does it have to be a well known book i use as it could go on forever

Keep it fairly well known early doors,yes? We can do more difficult ones later on. If they are fairly difficult then we can give clues such as author etc.

ok then my answer is MOBY DICK

and if that is correct the frst sentence of my mystery book will be:

Robert Langdon awoke slowly

The Da Vinci Code


Sunday, April 4th. My father has sent a telegram to the War Office.

was this book made into a film?

I'm not sure.

A TV series, yes.

The secret diary of Adrian Mole



"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

a tale of two cities

Would you like to ask us something

ok:

'It is difficult to know where to begin this story, but i have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage.'

Murder at the vicarage - Agatha Christie

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen

That's from George Orwell's 1984.

If that's right, here's the new first line:

"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 - Jane Austin



23rd May 2004
I am sitting on my red bench from the Bye Bye Bar in the middle of Charles De Gaulle airport, waiting to leave.

eternal sunshine of my spotless mind


if thats correct then


Holly held the blue cotton sweater to her face and the familiar smell immediately struck he, an overwhelming grief knotting her stomach and pulling at her heart.

PS, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern

It was a pleasure to burn

Now the chain get's difficult - the book was not "Eternal Sunshine" - does this mean we keep that chain open until it's answered, or do I just tell you?

As a hint - the author of the book was paid by Stephen Spielberg because he made a movie starring Tom Hanks which, although it bore no relationship to the events in the book, did have a connection with the story.

Farenheit 451 - so we are back with "my" book, I guess.

The film is The Terminal. to find the book

So, is the book The Terminal Man - by Mehran and Andrew Donkin