Where is it from?

[Frostina]

 

Here:

 

I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it

[podga]

 

I'd ask for a hint, but I'm pretty sure the only hint I'd be able to work with would be the name of the book and its author. Or perhaps we need emoticons for charades:

 

 

"It's a book!"

 

 

"How many words? Tell me, how many words? Four? First word. Small. The. A. It. It? It? No? She? He? Why are you pointing at the floor? What does that mean? Oh, forget it, just tell me what it sounds like. OK I get it, it sounds like something. Stop pointing at your ear. Oh, wait, it sounds like Ear? Here? Here!"

 

[Andy78]

Podga, you are not allowed to play "Where is it From?" when you have drunk that much ouzo

 

I've heard it before (well the first bit anyway), and I think it's quite recent if memory serves.

[Frostina]

OMG Podga. how much had you had to drink??

 

clue:

 

uhhh... written in the last decade. (yes, yes, i know! shocker!!)

and... being developed into a movie now!

[podga]

Podga, you are not allowed to play "Where is it From?" when you have drunk that much ouzo

 

 

OMG Podga. how much had you had to drink??

 

 

You both wrong me. I was as sober as a judge.

[Andy78]

After trawling through sooooooooo many books finally found it **yay me **

 

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Tomason

[Frostina]

 

the stage is yours, Mr. Sheep!

[Andy78]

"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

[podga]

OK, I looked it up (since my initial strategy of applying thumbscrews to Andy during chat didn't work ):

 

The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford.

[Andy78]

**The thumbscrews were very enjoyable, and I would like thank podga for his thoughtfulness**

 

You are correct. You're turn.

[Zombie]

???!!

[podga]

"A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard. Surprised--it always surprised him to find himself awake without prior notice--he rose from the bed, stood up in his multicolored pajamas, and stretched."

[Andy78]

One I know very well podga (well I should really shouldn't I )

 

I'll let someone else have a guess first

 

**wonders if the small green one will guess Stephanie Something?**

[Zombie]

Your clue -> Sheep, electricity, Rick --> Dick?

[Slytherin]

come on Andy - you know the answer, no one else does

 

 

[Red_A]

come on Andy - you know the answer, no one else does

 

 

 

The little green man knows it as well and has given a barn door of a clue, if you concertrate on the book, not the filn.

[Palantir]

Lol. I worked it out from the clue but searched to confirm because I thought it didn't match the tone of the quote.

[Andy78]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick

[podga]

 

Your turn, Sir Sheep!

[Andy78]

"I had no brothers or sisters. So all through my boyhood, from the age of four months onward, there were just the two of us, my father and me."

[Nephylim]

Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.

 

I used to love reading that to my son, but it took me ages to remember where the quote came from. It was one of those really annoying ones like the bit of meat stuck between your teeth. I hold up my hands and admit that it got to me in the end and I Googled it

 

My quote is

 

The closer we are to danger the father we are from harm

[podga]

"...the father..."? Hmmm.

[Andy78]

It has a fantasy/sci-fi feel to it.

 

Maybe something by Clarke or Azamov?

[Slytherin]

JRRR Tolkien - the two towers ?

I am pretty sure of it, might be wrong on the book but its Tolkien !

[Zombie]

I've googled to check for you CM - that is allowed - and you're right! Your turn