Vimes Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Aid and here I was hopeing that I had had a moment of brilliance :-P Quote
chaliepud Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Chris Priestley? .. *looks hopeful* Nope! Another quote... "To be sure, and therein lies the key to my skill. Only birds can manipulate time. Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird." Is that enough? Quote
chaliepud Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 And the main character is called Jacob... Quote
chaliepud Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 No ideas? The book has a long title...... Quote
poppyshake Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Is it Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children chalie? .. I thought it might be a bit earlier but Ransom's not British is he? (or have I got my wires crossed?) Quote
Janet Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) Me or Kay? (I haven't read either) ETA: Ah, reading her post I can see you mean Kay! Edited October 31, 2013 by Janet Quote
poppyshake Posted October 31, 2013 Posted October 31, 2013 Ah of course .. I forgot that the book was set here Alrighty ... not too tough I think .. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. Quote
chaliepud Posted November 1, 2013 Posted November 1, 2013 Doesn't sound familiar? Appears to be classic though.. ? Quote
chaliepud Posted November 1, 2013 Posted November 1, 2013 Hmm, classics not my speciality.. hopefully someone else will be along soon. Quote
poppyshake Posted November 1, 2013 Posted November 1, 2013 No Vimes .. but yes chalie .. it is a very romantic book .. well that is to say that's what you remember .. but the book is actually full of horrors. Quote
frankie Posted November 1, 2013 Author Posted November 1, 2013 Chalie, I would never have remembered that book! Not that I've read it, but I would never have made the connection I've still yet to read it, shame on me! Another challenge... I will say Jane Eyre! Quote
poppyshake Posted November 1, 2013 Posted November 1, 2013 No .. not Jane Eyre .. tis a man what writes it Quote
frankie Posted November 1, 2013 Author Posted November 1, 2013 What! I was next going to say Wuthering Heights I was almost tempted to say Persuasion, too, but it's not craziness in it that happens, or scariness... This was a twist I did not expect! Quote
poppyshake Posted November 1, 2013 Posted November 1, 2013 What! I was next going to say Wuthering Heights I was almost tempted to say Persuasion, too, but it's not craziness in it that happens, or scariness... This was a twist I did not expect! I can see how, from my description, it could've been Wuthering Heights .. only it's not Thomas Hardy? Quote
chaliepud Posted November 1, 2013 Posted November 1, 2013 Think hes the only male classic author I know.. Except Shakespeare.. Is he classics, or just ancient?! Quote
poppyshake Posted November 1, 2013 Posted November 1, 2013 I will give you another .. fairly obvious quote .. which should point you in the right direction .. If it had been possible, **** *******, that you could have returned the love of the man you see before you- self-flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misuse as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you to misery, bring you to sorrow and repentance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him. I know very well that you can have no tenderness for me; I ask for none; I am even thankful that it cannot be. Quote
poppyshake Posted November 1, 2013 Posted November 1, 2013 Think hes the only male classic author I know.. Except Shakespeare.. Is he classics, or just ancient?! Not Shakespeare but, excluding Shakespeare, he is the male daddy of them all as far as writing classics is concerned and you definitely know him chalie Quote
chesilbeach Posted November 1, 2013 Posted November 1, 2013 I guess then it must be Dickens? No idea which book if it is though! Quote
frankie Posted November 1, 2013 Author Posted November 1, 2013 (edited) It has to be A Tale of Two Cities!!! Edit: And because I didn't know it from the first quote, I will try and redeem myself by saying that I knew it from the second quote, even before I'd seen chesilbeach's post above ^ Edited November 1, 2013 by frankie Quote
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