Silly game- anyone up for it?

Everyone knew the party was for someone, but no-one quite knew for whom.

Oh.... I thought going over to the bookcase and looking at the book was effectively the same as googling. Silly me.

Me too Ariadne, and I have all my father's books and my grandfathers' books too. Not much space for anything else in fact. Now, you hotfoot it to your shelves and tell me the answer to my last quote. It's quite easy as there are lots of internal clues.

I have lots of what people might call "obscure" books on my shelves - some are there because I had, at some stage, to read them as part of my studies. I am glad that I did, because some, like those by Dostoevsky, I would never have chosen to read; and they made an impression on me. I am enjoying sharing them and talking about them, and all the others.

It was indeed Asterix le Gaulois!

There are many books mentioned on this thread that I have not yet read, but that doesn't mean other people have not read them and been impressed by their opening lines.

It's either Julius Caesar or Asterix

'Obscure'? These? Part of the canon, I would have said.

Is that "The little coffee shop of Kabul"??

How about "Nous sommes en 50 avant Jesus-Christ. Toute la Gaule est occupee par les Romains.....Toute? Non! "
A bit unfair for some, but I don't have it in translation!

Some certainly do. Not many of the obscure titles we've had on here though.

Some first lines do just make such an impression that they stay with you for life - Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, A Tale of two Cities, A Christmas Carol are some that resonate with me.

Persuasion. Jane Austen.

It was a vibrant blue-skied Afghan morning, the kind that made Yazmina stop to loosen her scarf and tilt her face to the sun.

Ooh, I think that's one of the Anne of Green Gables books. I loved those and read them heaps of times.

"Achilles' wrath to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing"

How white the moonlight is tonight, said Anne.

I certainly don't remember the first line of every book I've read. Why would anyone, unless they'd read it time and time again...?

I'll leave the holy stuff for you Micelf. Perhaps you feel the need.

Delighted to hear it J08. Can I recommend the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius? I'm sure you'd find it helpful.

Not that many there that I haven't read Micelf, over the last sixtytwo years.

Still working my way through all the Game of Throne books at the moment, interspersed with one or two GN freebies. My taste is quite eclectic and I like to keep up with the times.

Cheek!

Who's you?

Some if us are rather well read. If you start now - lots of suggestions here - you may catch up one day

In fact, I haven't googled any of the ones that I have posted!!! And I'm sure I am not alone.

I didn't google the Pi one - just went to Theseus' bit of the bookcase!

Unless there's a famous last line, like Gone with the Wind.

(which would give you the name of the book, I mean...)

And it's usually the only one that's googleable!