Answers to the book meme

[ivyfic]

Answers to the book meme - but y'all guessed most of them!

1. Taran wanted to make a sword; but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander (darkling1's guess was close enough.)

2. Just before dusk in the late afternoon of June 16, 1832, I found myself walking along the crowded docks of Liverpool, England, following a man by the name of Grummage.
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

3. Meung, a pretty market town on the Loire and the birthplace of Jean de Meung, author of the Romance of the Rose, was more or less used to disturbances of one sort or another because of the troublous times.
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Yes, this is the actual first sentence of The Three Musketeers. Memorable isn't it?

4. On the 24th of February, 1815, the lookout of Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon, from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Only a slightly better sentence than the previous.

5. Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarny.
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy guessed by shnayder

6. “Captain Pellaeon?” a voice called down the portside crew pit through the hum of background conversation.
Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn (first book of the Stars Wars Thrawn Trilogy) guessed by jethrien

7. Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes guessed by darkling1

8. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wilderness, for I had wandered from the straight and true.
Inferno by Dante Alighieri guessed by feiran

9. Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner from our district, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, well known in his own day (and still remembered among us) because of his dark and tragic death, which happened exactly thirteen years ago and which I shall speak of in its proper place.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky guessed by darkling1

10. The blade of the lightsaber hissed through the air. Obi-Wan Kenobi could not see its red gleam through the blindfold pressing on his eyes.
The Rising Force (Jedi Apprentice book 1) by Dave Wolverton (though the rest of the series and all of Jedi Quest is by Jude Watson)

Bonus: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier guessed by feiran

Comments

[nyias.livejournal.com]

2. Just before dusk in the late afternoon of June 16, 1832, I found myself walking along the crowded docks of Liverpool, England, following a man by the name of Grummage.
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Wow, I never would have guessed that one, and I've read that book a few times. Who the heck was Grummage? The ship captain?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it since I fell in love with it at twelve or so, so I have no idea. I just know it's about mutiny and ships and stuff and I think there's a keelhauling. Other than that, it's a blank.

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Grummage is the man responsible for arranging Charlotte's travel and related matters.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Dammit! I actually thought of the Count of Monte Cristo, and the decided that that wasn't it!