Bookerdash: Classics edition

[drachefly]

So so very different.

[Grillick]

Is Inspiration the last dasher who's playing? If so, can I dash once before the game is over? I have an awesome first line.

[kitoba]

I think this game has actually improved people's writing. There's a couple solid gold ringers in this round. I have strong reasons for my choice, but even so I could well be wrong. And I even read this book!

Is Inspiration the last dasher who's playing? If so, can I dash once before the game is over? I have an awesome first line.

I love this game, but we've been playing for a couple of months now. I'm kind of ready to move on to the next game. But I'd be open to an extra round if others want it.

[drachefly]

I have a silly 'bonus round' entry, too. Very silly, though, as producing a second line that could come within shouting distance of the real second line would be exceedingly difficult.

It would be far more blatantly obvious than the particle accelerator comicdash.

[inspiration]

Just waiting on one guess (cough cough drachefly).

[drachefly]

Oh, I'll take the prehistoric egg one. It's not like I have a clue aside from it not being mine.

[inspiration]

They set out much too late to find any, of course.

It had been a chilly day, he recalled, in the depths of winter.

At the time he was little more than a boy, yet all the melancholy whores on their balcony turned their heads to watch, as his father hurried him past the brothel that was the last building on the road out of town.

Fooled Stan Cold and Solara Hanover.

That day was marked vividly in his mind, for it was not every day his father said, "Son, let us discover ice."

It was a muggy, hot day; the sort where one wishes for the blissful release of a November rain to wash the sticky sweet perspiration from the brow.

At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs.

Correctly chosen by AlternateTorg, CCC, kitoba, and drachefly.

A simple question about the tops of the mountains began that journey, just as a simple question brought him here.

Having lived all his life in poverty and the sweltering heat of Riohacha, Colombia, Aureliano had never seen an ice cube, much less anything like a glacier or even a frozen pond.

Fooled Jorodryn.

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kitoba: 18
CCC: 14
drachefly: 9
Stan Cold: 9
Solara Hanover: 8
Jorodryn: 8
AlternateTorg: 8
inspiration: 5

CONGRATS KITOBA!

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If anyone wants to do a bonus round, go ahead -- any dashers will dash simultaneously, and the points will be just for show (though I may come up with a fun little prize for the bonus round winner.)

But as for the official game, thanks for playing, everyone! I do love a good *dash game!

[Grillick]

Grillick Bonus Round:

Call me Jonah.

What's the next sentence?

[drachefly]

My guess?

Actually, don't.

Drachefly Bonus Round:
Not really a round, and not really classic except as an April Fool's joke.
The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City
by John Scalzi

Night had come to the city of Skalandarharia, the sort of night with such a quality of black to it that it was as if black coal had been wrapped in blackest velvet, bathed in the purple-black ink of the demon squid Drindel and flung down a black well that descended toward the deepest, blackest crevasses of Drindelthengen, the netherworld ruled by Drindel, in which the sinful were punished, the black of which was so legendarily black that when the dreaded Drindelthengenflagen, the ravenous blind black badger trolls of Drindelthengen, would feast upon the uselessly dilated eyes of damned, the abandoned would cry out in joy as the Drindelthengenflagenmorden, the feared Black Spoons of the Drindelthengenflagen, pressed against their optic nerves, giving them one last sensation of light before the most absolute blackness fell upon them, made yet even blacker by the injury sustained from a falling lump of ink-bathed, velvet-wrapped coal.

[kitoba]

CONGRATS KITOBA!

Thanks! What a lot of fun ! I got this round right purely because the mention of the town's name seemed like a bold detail. Otherwise, either Jorodryn's or Solara's could have gotten my vote.

As far as my own entry, I sneakily inserted the phrase "melancholy whores" into it for authentic flavor --knowing that one of Marquez's other books contained the phrase in its title, and betting against anyone else consciously recalling that fact.

Call me Jonah.

Ishmael's been done.

[CCC]

Congratulations Kitoba! In that last round, your line almost fooled me (as did Solara's and AlternateTorg's). I just picked one from those four semi-randomly...

Why are some people not putting their responses to Grillick's line in PMs?

[drachefly]

Because it's not really a round, right?

[inspiration]

Because it's not really a round, right?

It's not for points in the overall game, but we can't play even for fun if everyone knows what the fake answers are already.

[drachefly]

OOooh. I thought by 'not a round' it meant 'Have fun making stuff up but don't bother with guesses'. Well, I'll make a new one.

[drachefly]

By the way, I have a submission on the long one. Any other takers, or shall I make you guess?