Here are the Last Lines, Now Name the Books
Neatorama points us to this PDF file of 100 Best Last Lines from Novels as per The American Book Review.
I’ve culled some last lines from some of the genre-ish novels listed. Can you match the last line with the book’s title?
- Are there any questions?
- He loved Big Brother.
- He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.
- Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
- Now everybody –
- One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, “Poo-tee-weet?”
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- 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Punchon (1973)
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
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How’d I do? Checking the PDF… Got 1 and 5 switched around.
Middlemarch should be higher.
1–f
2–a
3–c
4–b
5–d
6–e
I’m guessing on Handmaid and Gravity. I read Handmaid a while ago and was very unimpressed. Besides, it ain’t SF. Or so I hear. As for Gravity, someday, someday.
Hey, wow. Even with the guesses, 100%. Maybe the guess on Handmaid was a subconscious recollection of the book.
Memememememe! 100%! And I ADORE The Handmaid’s Tale. (Not the stupid movie, the dark, oppressive, claustrophobic book.)
To each his/her own. I read it for a college class. One of the class projects was a short story of “feminist fiction”. The professor said she liked my short SF tale better than “Handmaid” (a book she had chose to have the class read).
:O