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

Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India.

1801-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Wuthering Heights


Mr. Jones,of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.

Animal Farm

And here , perhaps one of my favourite novels of all time as well as it's author-

When I reached 'C' Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.


Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh

lol!


And I think the begining of A Clockwork Orange is great!

"If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk."
-From the classic children's book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

"That's torn it!" said Lord Peter Wimsey.

Opening line of Dorothy Sayer's "The nine tailors."
I find it beguiling in it's simplicity. In the book one learns a lot about change ringing and land drainage.

If you give a mouse a cookie!!! I remember that book!
Hurray for nostalgia!

"Today I ducked into a drugstore and bought a notebook-this notebook right here that I'm writing in. Clearly a momentous event."
-The Story of B, Daniel Quinn

"The first place I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water full of frog spawn in which I nearly drowned. It would have been the first case of a horse drowned in frogs' spawn."

- "Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan"

"In the beginning, there was nothingness. And nothingness was neither empty nor indeterminate; it demanded for nothing but for itself. And God saw that it was good."

Amélie Nothomb: Métaphysique des tubes

(Not knowing any French, I read this book in the German translation, so what I posted here is my own translation (German > English) of an official translation (French > German), but I think I am pretty close to the original...)

Y.

Anyone want to start this thread off again?

All my favourites have already gone!

Mol