Favorite Books Meme

[gfish]

You know the drill. Guess the books from the first sentence as given below.

1: Buu lay in his leafy arbor nest and looked up at the stars in the dark sky.

2: I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning. (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig, datavore and socalistboy)

3: A burning woman stalks the streets.

4: You see, I had this space suit. (Have Spacesuit, Will Travel - Robert Heinlein, rollick)

5: I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. (Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card, tylik)

6: Part of the problem, Nita thought to herself as she tore desperately down Rose Avenue, is that I can't keep my mouth shut. (So You Want To Be A Wizard, Diane Duane, damiana_swan)

7: Strategy is the craft of the warrior. (The Book of Five Rings, Musashi, shadowblue)

8: "I'm telling you, there's more history to this house than any other place on Indian Neck, and that's the truth," Ted Martin said, and took a long swallow of beer. (Interstellar Pig, William Sleator, caitaro)

9: High over the northern hemisphere the scoopship's hull began to sing. (Fallen Angels, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Michael Flynn, morinon)

10: Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get ride of each other, either by spamming their environments with rought copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored.

Comments

[rollick.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Is #4 Robert Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel"?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Indeed! My dad used to steal plots to tell as stories to my brother and me in the car. (The other one I remember strongly is Pohl Anderson's Tau Zero.) This was a favorite of mine to ask for, and later became a favorite when I was old enough to read the original. The only book with stronger happy early childhood memories is The Hobbit, and the first sentence of that is just too obvious.

[rollick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I briefly considered "The Hobbit" too, but given that I know the first sentence of it without even looking — me, who sucks at this game — it goes beyond "obvious" and well into "gimmie."