The guess the opening line of great novels game

[Taybha]

The zombie type film ? ffs cant remember which one

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

I Am Legend.

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

Catcher in the Rye?

 

[Taybha]

thats the one

 

[Tarpon]

Catcher in the Rye?

Yep. I love that line.

 

[Tarpon]

The zombie type film ? ffs cant remember which one

I got there via Omega Man with Charlton Heston...

 

[1234andcounting]

"It was a bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen."

A novel it should be compulsory to read - in an ironic sort of way.

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

1984?

Edit: to 1234and counting's post above.

 

[Goldstone1976]

"All this happened, more or less."

 

[Tarpon]

"All this happened, more or less."

I KNOW this! It's winding me up. Give us a clue?

 

[Don Quixote]

"All this happened, more or less."

That's Slaughter House 5 isn't it?

 

[Goldstone1976]

I KNOW this! It's winding me up. Give us a clue?

It has a number in the title.

 

[Goldstone1976]

That's Slaughter House 5 isn't it?

 

[Tarpon]

That's Slaughter House 5 isn't it?

Well done. I couldn't get it.

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

"All happy families are the same; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

 

[Lord Bracknell]

"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there".

 

[Tarpon]

"All happy families are the same; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

This game hurts my head. This is v well known but I'm struggling.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

"All happy families are the same; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

I know that one! Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. But the happy families are 'alike' rather than 'the same'.

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

I know that one! Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. But the happy families are 'alike' rather than 'the same'.

Yes it is, and yes it is. Apologies.

 

[Tarpon]

"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there".

Ian Rush - The Autobiography? Oh wait that was 'I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country '...

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Ian Rush - The Autobiography? Oh wait that was 'I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country '...

This is another one of those which I feel I should know.