Weekly Geeks # 21 - First Lines

This weeks theme from
Dewey:
"This week’s Weekly Geek’s theme is sort of a combination group project / scavenger hunt.

Below, you’ll find a list of 100 first lines from books. Our basic project is to identify these.

You can participate to a greater or lesser extent, depending on how many of the optional steps you feel like taking part in.
How to:
1. Look over the list of first lines. How many can you identify immediately? Post these in your blog, with the answer (the book title and author). If you’re not 100% positive of your answer, please google the line to be sure. Otherwise, your wrong answer will be spread around to other bloggers. Step 1 is the most basic step in the project, and you should only sign Mr Linky if you complete this step.
2. If you like, list a few or more first lines without answers and ask your readers if they can identify any of them. It’s fine to list all of them for your readers to look at, if you’re so inclined.
3. If you want to, you can also go around visiting other Weekly Geeks and commenting with the answers to any lines that stumped them. The more WGs you visit, the more will visit you!
4. If you want to take part in a contest to see who can get all 100 lines identified, visit the Weekly Geeks who sign Mr Linky below, take their identified lines from their blogs and post them in your own post. Your own list will grow this way. Please don’t forget to link to any Weekly Geeks whose identified lines you take!
5. If you eventually have all 100 lines identified in your blog post, please email me at dewpie at gmail dot com. Don’t email me if you get all 100 by looking at the blog of someone else who got all 100, though, because obviously that person beat you to it.
6. There is a prize! If no one gets all 100 answers, the prize goes to the blogger who gets the most. If multiple bloggers get all 100, the winner is the first person who emails me a link to a post with all 100 correct answers.
7. I’ll offer the winner a choice of a few of the prizes I was setting aside for the read-a-thon and he or she will get to choose one. These choice won’t be anything donated by other bloggers, though, because those bloggers intended those prizes for the read-a-thon.
A couple rules:
1. If you think you might know the source of some first lines but aren’t positive, it’s ok to google them to double-check, as I said. But googling all of them is cheating! Googling any of them because you’re stumped is also cheating! Googling something like “first lines of books” and getting a bunch of answers in one place is also cheating! The point is to get lots of WG blog-hopping going on, and if someone googles all the lines and posts all the answers right away, then the fun is over. SADFACE.
2. I found all these lines at one website. If you happen upon that site (or a similar one) in your googling, please avert your eyes as soon as you realize it. And please don’t tell anyone else the url of the site. I feel a little unethical posting all the lines from that site here without linking to it, so I’ll be sure to cite my source in next week’s post, when I announce the winner."

The ones I know for sure are-
#1- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
#2- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Thanks Jessica
#3-Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
#4- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#5- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#6- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
#7- Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce Thanks Eva
#8- 1984 by George Orwell
#9- A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
#10- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#11- Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West Thanks Rachel
#12- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#13- The Trial by Franz Kafka
#14- If on a winter’s night a traveler, Italo Calvino Thanks Softdrink
#15- Murphy by Samuel Beckett Thanks Maree
#16- The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
#17- The Portait of the Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce Thanks Rachel
#19- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Thanks Susan L.
#20- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Thanks Eva
#21- Ulysses by James Joyce Thanks Susan L.
#22- Paul Clifford, Edward Bulwer-Lytton Thanks Softdrink
#23- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Thanks Dreamybee via Rachel
#24-City Of Glass by Paul Auster Thanks Joanne
#25- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Thanks Dreamybee via Rachel
#26- Beloved by Toni Morrison
#27- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cerventes(sp?)
#28- The Stranger by Albert Camus Thanks Eva
#29- Waiting by Ha Jin Thanks Maree
#30-Neuromancer by William Gibson Thanks Jessi
#31-Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky Thanks Megan
#32-The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett Thanks Jessica
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#34-
#35-
#36-
#37- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
#38- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#39-Paradise by Toni Morrison Thanks Yasmin
#40- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Thanks Dreamybee via Rachel
#41-
#42-The Debut by Anita Brookner
#43-Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThanks Softdrink
#44- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Thanks Jessica
#45- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Thanks Susan L.
#46-
#47- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis Thanks Eva
#48- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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#50- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
#51- Elmer Gantry- Sinclair Lewis Thanks Rachel and Xicanti
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#53- Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#54-
#55-End Of The Affair by Graham Greene Thanks Joanne
#56- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Thanks Katherine
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#58- Middlemarch by George Eliot Thanks Eva
#59- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#60-
#61-The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maughm Thanks Tammy
#62- Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler Thanks Valerie
#63-
#64- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Thanks Susan L.
#65- The Color Purple by Alice Walker Thanks Jessica
#66- Satanic Verses by Salaman Rushdie(sp?) Thanks Eva
#67- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Thanks Katherine
#68-The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace Thanks Joanne
#69- Herzog by Saul Bellow Thanks Dreamybee via Rachel
#70- The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
#71- The Tin Drum- Thanks Dreamybee via melydia
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#74- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James Thanks Susan L.
#75- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Thanks Susan L.
#76- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad Thanks Susan L.
#77- Lord Jim by Jospeh Conrad Thanks Dreamybee via Susan
#78- The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley Thanks Katherine
#79- Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban Thanks Maree
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#81- Crash by J.G. Ballard Thanks Susan L.
#82- I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith Thanks Softdrink
#83- Geek Love, Katherine Dunn Thanks Softdrink
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#85-Last Good Kiss by James Krumley Thanks Joanne
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#87- I, Claudius, Robert Graves Thanks Softdrink
#88-Middle Passage by Charles Johnson Thanks Yasmin
#89- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Thanks Dreamybee via Ali
#90- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis Thanks Susan L.
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#92-Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini Thanks Softdrink
#93-Blown Away by Ronald Sukenick
#94- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
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#96- Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Thanks Susan L.
#97- Orlando by Virginia Wolf Thanks Dreamybee
#98-Changing Places by David Lodge Thanks Jessica
#99- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Thanks Susan L.
#100- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

The ones really bugging me are:
#51- Elmer Gantry was drunk. -- I think a good guess would be Elmer Gantry but I don't know who wrote it. thanks xicante

#70- Francis Marion Tarwater’s uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Saviour at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up.--Darn it, I've read this, I should know this!!!
***OK, haven't found this anywhere yet and it's been driving me crazy all evening. I recognized the sarcasm and the religious aspect and I know it's a book by Flannery O'Connor! I just don't know which one.
#62- Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.-- another one that I know I should know and can't remember!!

#11- The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard. --I know the title, it's right in the sentence but I can't think of the author.

This was a lot of fun. Any help one the ones that are driving me nuts?