Fun & Games discussion

"The zipper of the garment bag stuck at first, giving her second thoughts."

Page 23, sentence 7

But Ptolemy the pig, and the hens who were named after tribes of Israel, went where they pleased.

I'll just go with Kim's edict.

She knocked it back and tee-heed.

2nd sentence of chapter 3.

The Hummer's side windows exploded, bullets whapping into the limo's seats and shattering bottles.


Chapter 5, 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence

"I've more sense than to fall over the cliff.

Page 24, fifth sentence

"Her eyes filled with tears and her head sagged toward her chest."

Page 13, 8th sentence

If ah went and saw her, ah'd be too squeamish to (make love to) her, assuming that she'd want us tae.

Third quote of the fourth chapter.

"Let us go out to the field"

8th page, 1st sentence

Carl flashed a photo of the man's Ford pickup on the wall, and was about to summarize his life when the door opened and Mr. Rankin Fitch stepped into the room.

The second sentence of the first full paragraph of the third page of the fifth chapter.

"No!" (I'm not saying that I won't do it, that's actually the full sentence!)

27th page, 12th sentence

"Your lives would make fantastic movies"


Page 100, last sentence.

I eat slowly, straining my ears to hear the voices from the dining room.

11th chapter, 2nd to last sentence

Miss Lake said, "The threat wasn't necessary."

p257's 1st full sentence

I love Bucky for the ways that he is not Lee, because I am beholden to Lee in confounding ways and need Lee in direct proportion to our shared history.

Same thing Aaron said

Paragraph 3 only has 4 sentences, so I'll just put the 12th sentence in Chapter 9.
"How much longer could this go on?"

13th page, 3rd sentence

By tradition, it had been the privilege of the outgoing sixth formers to play a prank on the rest of the school and in previous years had involved toilet rolls and paint, or dissembling the headmaster's car.

p. 167 2nd sentence

"She wore a fitted gray blouse with a white ruffled skirt that flared out at her hips."

Page 83, 12th sentence

"Something in the room changed at the mention of the name."

Page 22, 4th sentence.

By implementing his scheme Pascoe would at least have the satisfaction of knowing that he had tried to work out his problem.

P. 101 First complete sentence

-Grant wis twenty-nine, wis eh no? Peasbo quizzed.

p 202, 2nd sentence

"How did I.....".

Page 79, third paragraph, first sentence.

'No, Meggie', he said.

Page 100, fourth paragraph, second sentence.

"What about those two strays you have with you now, Dinas?

Page 94 fourth sentence

"'Are you telling me how to do my job?'

Page 202, third paragraph, first sentence

A morgue van hauled off the body.

P 15, last full sentence.

I felt immense relief when the lunch bell rang.

Page 55, third sentence

The broken pane had not been replaced, and the asterisk of cracked glass reminded Wilder of some kind of cryptic notation, a transfer on the fuselage of a wartime aircraft marking a kill.

Last sentence of the 8th chapter.

"'The looming apocalypse is not of our doing, we have been good citizens and did not know that it was coming.'"

1st sentence, last page of tenth chapter.

"Or did you have a different night in mind?"

1st sentence on the 3rd paragraph on page 103.

Pangbourne stroked the Alsatian's swollen head, his white hands delicate with blood.

4th sentence on page 154.

More politics, more people covering their asses rather than actually trying to understand what's happening in the real world.

Page 207, 2nd paragraph, last sentence

Laing watched them contentedly, ready to welcome them to their new world.

Page 179, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence.

Parker sipped scotch.

p 123, 3rd to last sentence

"But nobody knows what they are," pointed out Horrabin.


Page 67, first sentence of third paragraph.

from p 67, 1st sentence, 3rd paragraph

The body placement felt wrong.

3rd quote from 3rd chapter

Josef shrugged. "A torque wrench," he said.

Page 95, 2nd paragraph, 1st sentence.

Another paper bomb hit me.

P 76, 5th sentence

Oh, never mind looks, he told himself, a little deliriously - I'll win a position by sheer eloquence and force of personality.

Page 171, 1st sentence of second paragraph.

It made him sad, not because he saw some instructive allegory or harsh sermon on the vanity of all human hopes and utopian imaginings in this translation of a bright summer dream into an immense mud puddle freezing over at the end of a September afternoon-he was too young to have such inklings-but because he had so loved the Fair, and seeing it this way, he felt in his heart what he had known all along, that, like childhood, the Fair was over, and he would never be able to visit again.

1st sentence of the 10th chapter.

3:07a.m.
"...and Call-Me-Jack has a standing order in with Brenda.

10th to last page, 10th to last sentence

As if by magic, he heard their voices, their laughter, and then the knob turning, and the creaking hinges of the door.

Last sentence on page 141.

And then it erupted over the side of the platform.

Page 6, sentence 6.

Josef Kavalier settled back against the mattress, cleared his throat once, tucked his arms under his head, and then, as if he had been unplugged, stopped moving.

Page 119, 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence.

"Then that's an obsessive I'd like to meet," said Harold.

Page 201, 4th paragraph, first sentence.

Silence-twenty-six seconds worth.

Opening sentence of book

Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.

Last sentence of the book.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger...a Man on the Move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

Very middle sentence of book.

Vix dropped to one knee, but Trajan raised him with a wave.

page 17, 2nd paragraph, first sentence

Eric checked his watch

page 154, 4th paragraph, 2nd sentence

I was—and I'll admit this freely—happy for him.

Page 43, 3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence.