name that book.

**jacobo** · 02-25-2004 04:16 AM

yes it's going to be hard but i'll pick a classic and i'll pick very obvious quotes.

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day."

"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."

"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose. Try it sometime. I think even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, It'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "Fuck you." I'm positive, in fact."

any takers?

**mrguytodd** · 02-25-2004 04:38 AM

The Catcher in the Rye.

**jacobo** · 02-25-2004 04:49 AM

ding ding ding. *gives mrguytodd a cookie*

now onto something a little harder. i'll give you a hint, it was an anti-war novel.

"He went into the living room , swinging the bottle like a dinner bell, turned on the television. He came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again. It was a movie about American bombers in the second world war and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy the story went like this:

American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes up backwards to join the formation.

The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, the German fighters came up again and made everything and everybody as good as new.

When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed."

**mrguytodd** · 02-25-2004 04:52 AM

Slaughter House Five

**jacobo** · 02-25-2004 05:10 AM

*gives mrguytodd yet another cookie*

ok, get this one... it's a japanese epic.

" The threats continued unabated till the prow of the boat began to move toawrd the bank. A voice roared through the cold air: "Shut up, you fools! We're coming in! Better get ready to defend yourselves."
Despite the other passengers' pleas, the young man had seized the boatman's pole and was bringing the ferry in. The seven samurai immediately assembled around where the prow would touch the shore and watched the figure poling the boat grow larger as he neared them. But then suddenly the boat's speed picked up, and he was upon them before they knew it. As the hull scraped bottom, they fell back, and a dark, round object came sailing across the reeds and locked itself around one man's neck. Before realizing it was only the monkey, they had all instinctively drawn their swords and sliced through the empty air around them. To disguise their embarrassment, they shouted impatient orders at one another." *epic battle ensues, but it's too much to type*

**ffx-dreamz** · 02-25-2004 05:13 AM

this will be hilarious if he gets it.

**mrguytodd** · 02-25-2004 05:34 AM

Sorry, google didn't turn up with anything on that one

**ffx-dreamz** · 02-25-2004 05:40 AM

lol *cough*cheater*cough*

I have been coughing like that so much lately you would think I had the flu.

**Umbrasquall** · 02-25-2004 05:54 AM

No idea about Japanese epics. The only one I remember learning about in World History was The Tale of the Genji (something like that) by Lady Murasaki (some name like that).

Is it that one?

**jacobo** · 02-25-2004 06:08 AM

yeah, i started the tale of genji... BORING AS ALL HELL. its about love and that sort of crap. if anyone gets this right, they get 7, yes you heard me, 7 cookies!

**WerBurN** · 02-25-2004 09:41 AM

*WerBurN looks about frantically* seven cookies!? hes mad!

**poog** · 09-18-2008 01:11 AM

Originally Posted by jacobo

yeah, i started the tale of genji... BORING AS ALL HELL. its about love and that sort of crap. if anyone gets this right, they get 7, yes you heard me, 7 cookies!

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa