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Game I stole from MSN. I'll start by posting the opening sentence of a book and the first correct guess (book and author) gets to post his/her opening line, and so on.

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
 
Should there be a rule that people can't just Google the text to find the answer?
 
Barb said:
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
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I'm just going to guess here, but Catcher in the Rye? (never read it, personally)
 
Problem is, I can't control whether or not people do Google to find the answer. Technically, it's a trivia game and you should know the answer without resorting to Google.

And Blackjack is right; it's The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
 
I have no clue about this line. I'm going to make a hugely random--and probably wrong--guess. "The Tommyknockers," by Stephen King?
 
Okay, my turn!

It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the opera, were giving a last performance to mark their retirement.

~Roxy~
 
Gaston Leroux, Barb, but in any case, you are correct.
 
Sorry, getting my authors mixed up today.

"The year of grace 1866 was made memorable by a marvelous event which doubtless still lingers in men's minds."
 
Here we go. This may or may not be easy. "Towards the end of a sultry afternoon early in July a young man came out of his little room in Stolyarny Lane and turned slowly and somewhat irresolutely in the direction of Kamenny Bridge."
 
You are correct. I had to read it for 9th Grade English last year.
 
Since you chose a book from English class last year, I'm going to pick one I'm reading right now.

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christain name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

~Roxy~
 
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