No.(if your talking to me)
That'd be The Trial then.
Here's an easy one:
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge.
I haven't read to many war novels. But i'll guess catch 22 or Johnny got his gun, Just because there so popular
No, it's not a war novel. Hint: the author is Russian.
I could have read the book yesterday and I still wouldn't get it. I have long term loss of short term memory.
I'll give you til tomorrow. Somebody else might identify it before that, though.
A random, yet timely, offering:
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."
(Gee, that sounds good - maybe I should give it a try.)
Too easy . . . Herbert George Wells, The War of the Worlds . . .
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Yeah that's right, by CD.
I have no library to hand, so from memory
"When I was a boy, my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn"
or maybe, but not from memory
"All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in our Gauls, the third."
McT:
First one's Treasure Island; second one's a poor translation of Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar's Ballic Wars narrative.
How come there were no guesses on my offering?
Am I too tough for you fellows?
Merry Andrew wrote:McT:
First one's Treasure Island; second one's a poor translation of Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar's Ballic Wars narrative.
Bonum guessum. I am not responsible for the translation, though (can you tell?) it just came up on the Web when I was looking for something else.
(Did he fight those after he had finished the Gallic Wars?) :wink:
gustavratzenhofer wrote:How come there were no guesses on my offering?
Am I too tough for you fellows?
Something by Elmore Leonard?
