frankie Posted October 23, 2013 Author Share Posted October 23, 2013 This doesn't sound familiar at all... Waiting to see if others have any ideas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Let me know if/when you want clues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 The Shining? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Yay! Right . . . For a while he stood on the front lawn looking up and down the silent length of Cimarron Street. He was a tall man, thirty-six, born of English-German stock, his features undistinguished except for the long, determined mouth and the bright blue of his eyes, which moved now over the charred ruins of the houses on each side of his. He’d burned them down to prevent them from jumping on his roof from the adjacent ones. After a few minutes he took a long, slow breath and went back into the house. He tossed the hammer on the living-room couch, then lit another cigarette and had his midmorning drink. Later he forced himself into the kitchen to grind up the fiveday accumulation of garbage in the sink. He knew he should burn up the paper plates and utensils too, and dust the furniture and wash out the sinks and the bathtub and toilet, and change the sheets and pillowcase on his bed; but he didn’t feel like it. For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Sci-fi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I don't know it, but I like the sound of it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Is it I am Legend [[Walter, or Richard Matheson?]A while since I read it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vimes Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Is the character Thor? (and yes I did read the quote but the author might be leading us down the wrong path) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Is it I am Legend [[Walter, or Richard Matheson?]A while since I read it though. Yes it is! Well done gg, over to you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 ok here goes. I broached the subject over the breakfast table today, I said 'I was in hopes that, if anything ever happened to me, the diary would be an endless source of pleasure to you both;to say nothing of the chance of remuneration which may accrue from it's being published'. Both C***** and L**** burst out laughing. C was sorry for this, I could see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 (edited) Yes! I thought I would go for an easy-ish one that most people may have read, but needed a bit of thinking. Your turn now Janet. Edited October 24, 2013 by gardengirl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 "They leant over the gate by the highway, and inquired as to the meaning of the dance and the white-frocked maids. The two elder of the brothers were plainly not intending to linger more than a moment, but the spectacle of a bevy of girls dancing without male partners seem to amuse the third, and make him in no hurry to move on." (Finding a passage which doesn't contain spoilers, but isn't too easy, is rather harder than I thought it would be!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 Doesn't sound familiar... But it might be something I've read but just don't remember... I'll wait and see what others come up with! (Finding a passage which doesn't contain spoilers, but isn't too easy, is rather harden than I thought it would be!) It is, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Hmmmmnn? sounds a bit Thomas Hardy-ish. need a think [may need more clues!] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vimes Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 I have no idea about any of these quotes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 Oh dear. What to use as a clue? Erm, it wasn't written in this century... or the last. You're not a million miles away... (and as another very tenuous clue which will probably only mean something to one of you... if at all... someone has made a comment which made me have a wry smile!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 26, 2013 Author Share Posted October 26, 2013 Okay. Don't say... Tess by Thomas Hardy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 You got it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 26, 2013 Author Share Posted October 26, 2013 :D Wicked Okay, here goes: One hour later, Mrs. *********** was still talking. ****** ***** had finished three Milky Ways and was in the process of unwrapping her second Butterfinger, wondering if the old woman beside her was ever going to shut up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 Ooh I know it .. but what is it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 26, 2013 Author Share Posted October 26, 2013 From that, I can't really say if you're hot or cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 26, 2013 Author Share Posted October 26, 2013 (edited) I will give you a clue: the author is from the US. (And I don't know how global Butterfingers are, so I don't know if that was already a dead give-away ) Edited October 26, 2013 by frankie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 Lady author? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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