*UPDATE* I forgot to add a deadline to this post, sorry. Our deadline will be midnight tonight. If you are the winner we’ll get in touch with you and you can either pick up the book here at the library, or we can mail it to you.
Without using Google, can you match these famous opening lines to their source? Comment below with your answers and the first person to submit the most correct answers will win a copy of Robison Wells’ Variant. Robison Wells will also be participating in a Young Adult Fiction panel as part of Orem Writes on Thursday, January 10 at 7pm in the Storytelling Wing, along with Ally Condie, Jennifer Nielsen and E.J. Patten.
1. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
2. “‘What’s it going to be then, eh?’ There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry.”
3. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
4. “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.”
5. “As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
6. “It was a pleasure to burn.”
7. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
8. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
9. “The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him ‘WILD THING!’ and Max said ‘I’LL EAT YOU UP!’ so he was sent to bed without eating anything.”
10. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
A. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
B. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
C. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
D. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
E. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
F. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
G. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
H. 1984 by George Orwell
I. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
J. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1. C
2. J
3. G
4. H
5. D
6. A
7. E
8. I
9. F
10. B
1. One hundred years of solitude
2.g
3. H
4. J
5.d
6.a
7. E
8. I
9. Where the wild things are
10. Anna Karenina!!
Congratulations Jenny! You are our winner! The correct answers are as follows:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
5. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
9. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy