Where is it from?

[Frostina]

ugh...

 

There is noo way i can answer this, BUT... pls give us a hint, Andy!

[Andy78]

Yey, I have stumped Frosty - my life's work is now complete

 

As previously stated it is dystopic fiction. The author is English and the book is part of a serial.

[Frostina]

I dont read Sci-fi! let alone dystopian ones! lol

And so.. yes, i am stumped.

I wish some one would answer this already!

Grrrrrr...

 

 

**Plots revenge On Andy**

[Andy78]

**Is so not scared of Frosty **

[Daddydavek]

Time for another hint.

 

signed,

Also stumped

[comicfan]

To be completely honest Andy -- I haven't a clue at the moment.

[Andy78]

Published in 2007 - it was aimed at the young adult market. A market which the author missed by a mile, and it found itself in the adult market.

 

In spite of good sales it was slated by the critics as being "pulpy in the extreme" and "full of badly written teen angst".

[comicfan]

That wouldn't be City of Ember would it?

[Andy78]

Unfortunately it wouldn't be

[Andy78]

Unless there are any objections (or if some guesses correctly) I'll post the answer tomorrow by 18:00 BST (13:00 New York time) - that will have given everyone a couple of days of guessing.

 

Further clues:

 

The opening lines:

 

Six years ago

 

The day his father died began like any other.

Travis was sitting in front of the Cartoon Network, munching his way through a bowl of cornflakes.

 

Two characters:

 

Travis Naughton and Mark Doyle

 

The grey uniforms:

 

Belong to Harrington School

[Andy78]

And we have our first shut-out.

 

The answer was: The Time of the Reaper by Andrew Butcher

 

Let's try this one:

 

Everyone in the intelligence community understood that the vast majority of sightings and alien abductions were simply the product of active imaginations or moneymaking hoaxes.

[Anya]

Dan Brown's Deception Point?

[Andy78]

Well done Anya, your turn

[Anya]

Okay, here goes:

 

“I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible."

[Frostina]

Okay, here goes:

 

“I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible."

 

Catcher In the Rye, By JD Salinger.

 

Right?

[Anya]

Herrrrr.....yes >_<

 

lol

[comicfan]

I know you are right Frosty. Didn't someone do Catcher already?

[Frostina]

Yes Wayne, It was me the first time.

 

Soo:

 

"You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you."

[comicfan]

Is it bad I know this one from browsing at Borders before it closed? I was looking for a book my godson might enjoy. I know the book but not the author and not going to google it. Diary of a Wimpy kid. Author is ???

[Andy78]

It's someone Kinney (can't remember the first name) - I bought it recently for a friend's son for his birthday.

 

I'd say this one goes to Wayne

[Frostina]

Jeff Kinney

and yeah Wayne, it's all yours!

[comicfan]

Oh you guys are in trouble. lol. Alright I read a lot let me grab a book off the shelf and do this again.

 

"In the beginning, after all, were the words, and came with a tune. That was how the world was made, how the void was divided, how the lands and the stars and the dreams an the little gods and the animals, how all of them came into the world. They were sung."

 

Good luck ladies and gentlemen.

[Andy78]

Arvan Kumar's The Heartstone Odyssey?

[comicfan]

Sorry Andy, but no.

[Andy78]

**Wonders if LouisHarris has given him a clue or if it's a red herring**

 

Anansi Boys, and the author is Neil somebody?