Ge:inspireerd door het topic over beginzinnen herlas ik wat van de beginzinnen van m'n boeken. Sommiges leker erg aan te sluiten bij het verhaal - andere bijna helemaal niet. Daarna dacht ik dat dit misschien wel een leuk quizje kan zijn. Ik heb hier 25 beginzinnen (geen proloog of voorwoord, maar de eerste zin van het eerste hoofdstuk). Eens kijken of mensen hier titels bij kunnen vinden!
Je mag google gebruiken, maar zeg het dan wel als je dat doet. Het beste is om te kijken of je zonder dit de titels kan vinden. Geef het nummer van de zin en jouw idee erbij, en dan zeg ik wel af en toe of er al dingen zijn geraden. Sommige zijn redelijk makkelijk, andere zeker niet.
Ze zijn wel allemaal in het Engels omdat ik bijna geen Nederlandse boeken (meer) heb.
1.) It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me.
2.) Taran wanted to make a sword; but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
3.) The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
4.) It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
5.) The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
6.) When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
7.) Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
8.) In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part...
9.) 3 May. Bistritz.-- Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
10.) The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
11.) Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith
12.) She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.
13.) That was when I saw the Pendulum.
14.) IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.
15.) When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.
16.) Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls.
17.) Mother died today
18.) "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
19.) Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'
20.) One of the few redeeming facets of instructors, I thought, is that occasionally they can be fooled.
21.) This was a golden age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so.
22.) When shall we three meet again?
23.) I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.
24.) Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Doré, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America.
25.) Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 03
Zonder Google te gebruiken:
1. Geen idee, maar het doet met denken aan "It all started in mud, as all things do."
----------2. De enige Taran die ik ken is van Taran en de Toverketel (of "The magic Cauldron")
3/4/5 Geen idee
6. Lord of the Rings!
7. Harry Potter
8/9/10 Geen idee
11. Doet me denken aan Stranger in a Strange Land
12 Geen idee
13. Gokje: Foucault's Pendulum?
14/15 Geen idee
16. Gormenghast
17/18 Geen idee
19. Alice in Wonderland
20/21/22/23/24/25 Geen idee.
Kom ook eens kijken op het alternatieve DutchNano forum!
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Nov 3, 2009 - 04 30
Without using Google I would say that 4 is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and 13 could be Umberto Eco's Foucault's pendulum
leuk quizje
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Nov 3, 2009 - 05 04
Zonder Google en zonder te spieken bij de andere posters, zeg ik:
4) Pride&Prejudice - Jane Austen
5) The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (deze zin had ik al in het Openingszin-topic gepost, 't is er een erg mooie hé)
7) Harry Potter (and the Philosopher's Stone( - J.K. Rowling (Zeker Harry Potter, en ik denk het eerste boek?)
19) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
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Nov 3, 2009 - 07 24
Okay, deze zijn de juiste antwoorden (of een opmerking als ze bijna juist waren!)
2.) (beetje goed, doch het boek nog niet)
4.) Jane Austen - Pride And Prejudice
5.) Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray
6.) J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings
7.) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
11.) Robert Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land
13.) Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
16.) (niet helemaal nog)
19.) Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Er zijn nog een hoop over om te raden!
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Nov 3, 2009 - 09 35
Huh, en ik herken en er nog een paar ook! Degenen die nog niet geraden zijn en die ik denk te weten:
14) Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet geloof ik, van Arthur Conan Doyle.
18) Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
22) Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett.
Cool quiz! En ik kan niet geloven dat ik een paar van de antwoorden weet!
----------In November, all words are good words.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 01 20
14) Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet geloof ik, van Arthur Conan Doyle.
18) Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
22) Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett.
Cool quiz! En ik kan niet geloven dat ik een paar van de antwoorden weet!
At least credit the original author for 22: It's Macbeth by Shakespeare. ;-) Of course, knowing Pratchett, it's a parody -- possibly even a pastiche -- of Shakespeare.
Unfortunately, that concludes the ones I know and not guessed yet. I'm surprised I knew five of these (6, 7, 13, 18, 22) -- I usually stink in remembering opening lines. ;-)
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Nov 4, 2009 - 01 27
25 is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell! De rest die ik wist is helaas al geraden.. al zijn er wel een paar die me bekend voorkomen, maar waar ik het boek niet meer bij weet.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 01 42
2 is uit The Chronicles of Prydain, van Lloyd Alexander, maar welk boek weet ik niet. Ik gok The Book of Three, omdat dat de eerste is.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 02 24
Het gaat goed! Deze zijn nu al geraden:
2.) Lloyd Alexander - The Book of Three
4.) Jane Austen - Pride And Prejudice
5.) Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray
6.) J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings
7.) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
11.) Robert Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land
13.) Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
14.) Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study In Scarlet
16.) (nog steeds niet helemaal)
18.) Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
19.) Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
22.) William Shakespeare - The Tragedy Of Macbeth
25.) Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell
We zoeken dus nog 1, 3, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23 en 24!
Wanneer zou ik de antwoorden moeten geven, denken jullie? Willen er nog mensen wat gaan puzzelen tijdens het brainstormen van hun verhaal?
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Nov 4, 2009 - 02 43
18.) "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
De intro van Ender's Game is de beste openingszin die ik ooit gelezen heb denk ik. Ik weet nog zo goed dat ik zowel Ender's Game als Speaker for the Dead had liggen en wíst dat Speaker eerder geschreven was. Dus ik wilde eigenlijk met Speaker beginnen, maar toen las in de intro van Ender's Game en besloot daarmee te beginnen.
----------Ik was te nieuwsgierig :-)
2002: True Friendship
2003: Balance
2004: Homecoming
2005: Accidents Happen
2006: Through Crystal
2007: Forsaken
2008: Frostbite
2009: Signals
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Nov 4, 2009 - 03 26
21 is de openingszin van The stars my destination.
Ik vind het een hele mooie openingszin, moest alleen even heel hard nadenken waar hij ook alweer vandaan kwam.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 04 12
Zonder Google te gebruiken :
8 is van een van de Discworld boeken van Terry Pratchett ... als ik moest gokken de welke zou ik zeggen The Fifth Elephant.
----------"Insanity is a matter of the mind. I am out of my mind, thus, how can I be insane?"
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Nov 4, 2009 - 04 27
8 is van een van de Discworld boeken van Terry Pratchett ... als ik moest gokken de welke zou ik zeggen The Fifth Elephant.
16 Is één van de Ghormengast boeken van Mervyn Peake, weet niet of het deel 1 of 2 is.
----------"Sometimes I still think about word counts the way a general must think about casualties." (Nam Le - The boat)
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Nov 4, 2009 - 04 43
Is 9 niet het boek van de film Munich? Lijkt mij dan tenminste. Voor de rest zou ik het ook niet weten.
----------Writing is nothing more than showing your inner world on paper, with a play or a film others can actually see it without having to visualize.
NaNoWriMo 2008: 6,5,4,3,2,1, happy ending
NaNoWriMo 2009: Megani's Heirs
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Nov 4, 2009 - 05 30
Nee, 9 is Dracula van Bram Stoker. Stom dat ik die niet eerder herkende!
16, het Gormenghast-boek is denk ik Titus Groan (van Mervyn Peake inderdaad).
8 is het eerste Discworld boek van Terry Pratchett, The Colur of Magic.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 05 58
Het gaat goed, al een hoop geraden!
2.) Lloyd Alexander - The Book of Three
4.) Jane Austen - Pride And Prejudice
5.) Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray
6.) J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings
7.) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
8.) Terry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic
9.) Bram Stoker - Dracula
11.) Robert Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land
13.) Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
14.) Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study In Scarlet
16.) Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan
18.) Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
19.) Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
21.) Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
22.) William Shakespeare - The Tragedy Of Macbeth
25.) Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell
Nog maar een paar te gaan. ;)
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Nov 4, 2009 - 06 31
10 klinkt als Lovecraft, maar geen idee welk verhaal.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 11 05
Je zou best wel eens gelijk kunnen hebben...is dat niet uit The Call of Cthulhu zelf?
Ik vermoed dat 17 uit "The curious incident of the dog in the night time" is, maar ik kan het boek niet vinden om het te controleren :-/
----------"Sometimes I still think about word counts the way a general must think about casualties." (Nam Le - The boat)
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Nov 4, 2009 - 11 16
Nope, helaas, ik heb het net gecheckt...
Ik kan helaas niets bijdragen verder, want alles wat ik wist is al geraden!
----------2007: stranded halfway through
2008: utter failure
2009: we'll see...
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Nov 4, 2009 - 11 38
Ik heb net even m'n Lovecraft Omnibus erbij gepakt, en het is toch wel The Call of Cthulhu. (Bestaan er soms meerdere versies van het verhaal?)
De tweede zin is trouwens nog mooier:
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
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Nov 5, 2009 - 01 33
Zou 15 niet Walden van Henry David Thoreau zijn?
Ik heb het boek nooit gelezen, maar "Walden Pond" en de subtitel "Life in the woods" zijn de clues die mij naar dit boek toe wijzen... :-)
----------Future Me is going to say "I told you so" up one side of you and down the other one, but Now Me is just going to sit back and watch.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 03 12
De tweede zin is trouwens nog mooier:
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
Inderdaad. Ik denk dat ze #17 bedoelde die ik fout had. ----------
"Sometimes I still think about word counts the way a general must think about casualties." (Nam Le - The boat)
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Nov 5, 2009 - 03 42
2.) Lloyd Alexander - The Book of Three
4.) Jane Austen - Pride And Prejudice
5.) Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray
6.) J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings
7.) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
8.) Terry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic
9.) Bram Stoker - Dracula
10.) H.P. Lovecraft - The Call Of Cthulhu
11.) Robert Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land
13.) Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
14.) Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study In Scarlet
15.) Henry David Thoreau - Walden
16.) Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan
18.) Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
19.) Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
21.) Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
22.) William Shakespeare - The Tragedy Of Macbeth
25.) Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell
Nog maar een paar te gaan. ;) Inderdaad was het Walden van Thoreau en Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu. Die tweede Lovecraft zin is ook erg mooi, yep. Zijn schrijfwijze roept gelijk ook zo'n sfeer op.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 04 23
Is 12 trouwens niet afkomstig van de serie over zo'n meisje van de sloppenwijken dat bij tovenaars terecht komt? Black magicians ofzo? Ik denk deel 1 of 2, misschien zelfs 3(meer zijn er niet)
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NaNoWriMo 2008: 6,5,4,3,2,1, happy ending
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Nov 11, 2009 - 15 23
'tis al best wat dagen geleden dat men hier op reageerde, dus ik geef de antwoorden maar! Bedankt iedereen voor het meespelen en ik hoop dat diegenen die dat deden het ook een leuk verzetje vonden. ;)
1.) Roger Zelazny - Nine Princes In Amber: It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me.
2.) Lloyd Alexander - The Book of Three: Taran wanted to make a sword; but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
3.) William Gibson - Neuromancer: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
4.) Jane Austen - Pride And Prejudice: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
5.) Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray: The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
6.) J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings: When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
7.) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone: Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
8.) Terry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic: In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part...
9.) Bram Stoker - Dracula: 3 May. Bistritz.-- Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
10.) H.P. Lovecraft - The Call Of Cthulhu: The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
11.) Robert Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land: Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.
12.) Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere: She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.
13.) Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum: That was when I saw the Pendulum.
14.) Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study In Scarlet: IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.
15.) Henry David Thoreau - Walden: When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.
16.) Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan: Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls.
17.) Albert Camus - The Stranger: Mother died today.
18.) Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game: "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
19.) Lewis Carroll - Alice In Wonderland: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'
20.) Robert Asprin - Another Fine Myth: One of the few redeeming facets of instructors, I thought, is that occasionally they can be fooled.
21.) Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination: This was a golden age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so.
22.) William Shakespeare - The Tragedy Of Macbeth: When shall we three meet again?
23.) Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan Of The Apes: I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.
24.) G.K. Chesterton - The Club Of Queer Trades: Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Doré, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America.
25.) Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell: Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.
Now I need to write more, I'm dreadfully behind, alas!
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Nov 11, 2009 - 15 34
Hij was erg leuk, hartstikke bedankt!
----------In November, all words are good words.
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Nov 12, 2009 - 00 16
Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber had ik moeten weten, van dat boek heb ik twee exemplaren in m'n kast staan!
Bedankt voor dit leuke spelletje! Je hebt me lekker van 't schrijven afgehouden ;)
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Nov 12, 2009 - 11 29
Bedankt voor dit quizje! Heel erg leuk. :-) En toen ik antwoord 12 zag dacht ik natuurlijk "oh ja!" Maar goed, ik wilde niet google'en.
En nu hup, schrijven! :-) Sterkte!
----------Future Me is going to say "I told you so" up one side of you and down the other one, but Now Me is just going to sit back and watch.