Andy78 Posted September 1, 2012 Posted September 1, 2012 I did one of these a little while ago. It's from Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy. It's a great series Podga, one should read.
Andy78 Posted September 2, 2012 Posted September 2, 2012 "We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other."
podga Posted September 2, 2012 Posted September 2, 2012 The Borg from Star Trek Next Generation! And if not, I'll go with "An Inspector Calls" by J.B. Priestly. (Coincidentally, my nephew's school just did this last spring, and on the program that line is in English. Otherwise, there's no way I would have gotten this.) 1
Andy78 Posted September 2, 2012 Posted September 2, 2012 It is from the more boring "An Inspector Calls"
podga Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 My turn, right? This should be easy, but I like the quote too much: "There are certain idiosyncratic notions that you quietly come to accept when you live for a long time in Britain. One is that British summers used to be longer and sunnier. Another is that the England football team shouldn't have any trouble with Norway. A third is the idea that Britain is a big place. This last is easily the most intractable."
podga Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island Right you are!
Zombie Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 *thinks must dig out and reread old, battered, dog-eared and much loved copy * Hmm, how to test this bunch of literati .... Ah yes *cackles evilly* I was in a space that was about ninety metres long and maybe half as wide, and I had walked out of the forest at a point about halfway down its length. I looked first to my left, and saw how the clearing ended in a dense shadowy wall of trees. Then I looked to my right. And froze.
Andy78 Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 **is still getting over the shock of the little green one knowing a book that was not written by Stephanie Something** 1
Andy78 Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 I think the book is called Keeper, but I can't remember the name of the author.
Palantir Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 It has a bit of a Charles DeLint feel about it but I don't think that's right.
Zombie Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 I think the book is called Keeper, but I can't remember the name of the author. Wotsit about?
Andy78 Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 A news reporter is interviewing a goalkeeper (El Gata?? I think), and he tells the story about how a ghost trained him in the jungle. I wasn't a huge fan of it.
Zombie Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 Yep, it's The Keeper by Mal Peet. So it's the zombie murderer's turn
Andy78 Posted September 4, 2012 Posted September 4, 2012 (edited) **has successfully defeated the sheep murderer** Now let's see what other books the zombie has read that are not by Stephanie Something. In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak—there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race. Edited September 4, 2012 by andy021278
Frostina Posted September 4, 2012 Posted September 4, 2012 Zombie. *scratches head* is it by a lady, Andy?
Nephylim Posted September 4, 2012 Posted September 4, 2012 (edited) Nooooooooooooooooooooo I did this at school. George Eliot is NOT my favourite author. Yawn Silas Marner My turn. The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking. Edited September 4, 2012 by Nephylim
podga Posted September 4, 2012 Posted September 4, 2012 "multiverse" It's probably another SF book I remember Johnny Carson once quoted it, but I have no idea where it's from.
Zombie Posted September 5, 2012 Posted September 5, 2012 *wonders at the desolation of this lonely thread ... listens to the broken shutters banging against the gaping window frames ....* Maybe it's tiiiiimme for a CLUE!
Andy78 Posted September 5, 2012 Posted September 5, 2012 It's Terry Pratchett isn't it? Going Postal?
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