Never read Everyman. I burned out on Roth. All of his books seem to be about how virile he still is at 70 something. It's nasty and "methinks the lady (sic) doth protest too much." I don't want to picture the old guy getting his groove on.

I did like the Plot Against America, though.

I haven't read it yet either. I got it as a gift and just sort of skimmed the first few pages. I'm a bit burnt out on Roth myself.

Over to you PRG.....

ok, bugger the lot of ya...im going again!!

'Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded sun.'

HA!

That is in the style of Douglas Adams (who the else would use the word 'backwaters' in reference to space) but I'm not really sure what the sentence is a reference to. I make two guesses Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or The Restaurant at the end of the Universe. It might be another one of his books though, I'm sure I've read the line before though.

i like Mike. mike's al-right!......Hitchhikers it is....have a go, ya mug

Give us a line, Mike!

Some pirate book? LOL I have NO idea!

One of my all time favourite books.....but someone else shld have a go.

YES!!!!!!!!! I think I know one. YES!!!!!!!!!

(pause while I dance in my room)

I beat the smart girls! I beat the smart girls!

(now collecting myself)

Ahem, I do believe that one is Treasure Island.

and now for my quote:

"My mother is a fish"

That's from As I Lay Dying by Faulkner. I'll post another quote when I can get home a little later.

Here's a softball, someone should get this one easy.

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

A visiting doctor covered with gray cobwebs on his yellow skull is addressing the resident boys in the staff room.

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no idea!.....sounds like a comedian's novel...Steve Martin??

It's way too early for a hint, but there is actually a kind of connection between this and the last, apparently more obvious softball.

Now, that "hint" should thoroughly confuse everybody.

In the dark, stumbling, may be stuck here forever....

A glimmer of recognition, but not more than that. Is it 19th c.?

It was published in 1962. I had to find a quote which didn't have any names becuase those would have been dead giveaways.