[Gibbon]

OK, there's a 'name that' in pretty much every other section, so I think this could work as well. Simple rules: someone throws up a passage from a book, someone else guesses it and throws their own up. Try and keep them at about a paragraph and make them guessable. I'll start with an easy one:

It was the start of the Summer of Late Rose. Mossflower country shimmered gently in a peaceful haze, bathing delicately at each dew-laden dawn, blossoming through high sunny noontides, langusihing in each crimson-tinted twighlight that heralded the soft darkness of June nights.

Quoth The Illusionist:
I won't pin this topic - fun though it may be, if it disappears then it disappears. I am, however, glad to see something so interactive around

RULES OF THE GAME:

= Quotes MUST be at least one paragraph in length.

= Quotes should include the name of at least one character/villain name.

= Quotes MUST be from books that have been written in English. I realise that LICD is a multi-cultural place, but I also realise that the majority of you folks are Yanks and Canucks, so if everyone else would make sure that their quote has even a small chance of being recognised before it is posted, that would be super.

= If a quote remains unanswered after 48 hours, the Author will please post a clue or another quote. If it remains unsolved after a further 24 hours, please reveal the novel and post a new one, just to keep things flowing along.

Thanks.

[The Illusionist]

Dear God - this is going to be one tricky damn quiz. Especially if you want precise editions - some books get released, then re-released in the nature of "Director's Cut" and so on.....

A complate bitch in other words!

Let me just suggest a rule: Fiction books only? If you're going to copy out of Text Books, or out of "true life" stories then the pool is going to be utterly enormous to dredge from, and a game like this shouldn't be THAT hard

That being said, your passage is from "Redwall" by Brian Jaques

I pass, since I can't find anything non-Discworld without getting out of my chair....

[vfdj42]

The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village.It stood on its own and looked over a broad spread of WestCountry farmland. Not a remarkable house by any means - it wasabout thirty years old, squattish, squarish, made of brick, andhad four windows set in the front of a size and proportion whichmore or less exactly failed to please the eye.

[Noodles]

i think it should just be guess the author, not the book. or if its the book post like an entire chapter or something

[vfdj42]

i think it should just be guess the author, not the book. or if its the book post like an entire chapter or something

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I think it's easier the way we're doing it, actually. And chapters could get...big.

[The Illusionist]

vfdj42 - That sounds Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-ish to me....

Am I close?

[n9zee]

Illusionist, you'd be right! Post something Discworldy!

[The Illusionist]

That would be too easy, dear.....

I'll post something in a few hours, once I've sat my exam... and finished work... and walked home.....

Hell with it, PASS!

[hooligan]

this should be dead simple, but in the interest of getting this going, here you are...

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate,
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.
Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,
And in the doubtful war, before he won
The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town;
His banish'd gods restor'd to rites divine,
And settled sure succession in his line,
From whence the race of Alban fathers come,
And the long glories of majestic Rome.

[NaOH]

this should be dead simple, but in the interest of getting this going, here you are...

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I'm going to hazard a guess that that's the Iliad?

[Cybercat]

More likely to be the odyssee (sp?), as the iliad is about the Trojan war, not about the trip back home.

[hooligan]

Both of you are very close, but not correct.

[draegerMKV]

Ah'm, If I may put in a suggestion:

I think the game will work a lot better if the passages are from either the beginning or end of the book; I know they've done this before as a category in the "Says You" radio game show. Doing it this way should work better, because just choosing anywhere from the book allows someone to choose really random stuff; but opening and closing passages, tend to be a lot more memorable to the reader (as well as usually providing good hints in the form of names or locations, etc.)

What does everyone else think of this idea?

[hooligan]

I think that it is a good idea. And for the record, the passage I quoted is the opening passage of the book in question. To give another hint, "The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town" refers to Rome.

[Kayhynn]

I think that it is a good idea.  And for the record, the passage I quoted is the opening passage of the book in question.  To give another hint, "The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town" refers to Rome.

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It sounds Shakespearian.....

If im off I'll quit racking my brain

[Gibbon]

Julius Caeser?(sp)

[hooligan]

Sorry, I thought it would be easy, just goes to show you how hard this may be. I guess I am biased since I was a Latin major. The answer is the Aeneid.

I'll try another

"Leodogran, the King of Cameliard,
Had one fair daughter, and none other child;
And she was the fairest of all flesh on earth,
Guinevere, and in her his one delight.

  For many a petty king ere Arthur came
Ruled in this isle, and ever waging war
Each upon other, wasted all the land;
And still from time to time the heathen host
Swarmed overseas, and harried what was left.
And so there grew great tracts of wilderness,
Wherein the beast was ever more and more,
But man was less and less, till Arthur came.
For first Aurelius lived and fought and died,
And after him King Uther fought and died,
But either failed to make the kingdom one.
And after these King Arthur for a space,
And through the puissance of his Table Round,
Drew all their petty princedoms under him."

[Shrewd]

The round table...
King Arthur

[hooligan]

Nope, obviously it is about King Arthur though.

[OnKloudNyne]

Nope, obviously it is about King Arthur though.

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Total guess, but: The Once and Future King?