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Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

That is "Watchmen", by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons my keylime friend...

You have to put up a new quote now.

Vale...

"In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life."

Answers on a postcard...

Nice one Frank. At first I thought this was Norwegian Wood by Murakami, but after searching through my shelves, I realized it was from one of his other books, Sputnik sweetheart.

How about this one, the first line from a book that I think is really underrated

In writing this story, I am fulfilling a promise to my poor friend Fulano.

Man, now I want to read this one again.

Locos by Felipe Alfau. Good one. I haven't actually read it, but I would like to. It had me walking around like this for about 3 days!
OK...

"The town of Ronda clings in precarious uncertainty to the rocky shoulders of a 654-foot ravine rising above the waters of the Guadalevin River."

Have fun...

I think that might be For Whom the Bell Tolls. Not for sure, but I remember that's about Ronda.

I'll wait until it's confirmed to be correct to post a new one. Don't want to steal the spot -_-

...'fraid not dude. Keep trying...

No! I was up until 3 AM searching for the perfect quote, too!

Just kidding, too bad it wasn't right though ^^

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"The town of Ronda clings in precarious uncertainty to the rocky shoulders of a 654-foot ravine rising above the waters of the Guadalevin River."

Have fun...

This is making me mad because I've been to the "white city," and if there is a novel set there I would love to read it.

A hint on this thing is that it's non-fiction. A biography / exploration of a long-vanished Spain. A title most will have heard before somewhere I'd say...

It was Or I'll Dress You In Mourning, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, about the great Manuel Benitez, El Cordobes.
Too left field..?

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Originally posted by Frank Valeron Esq.:
It was Or I'll Dress You In Mourning, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, about the great Manuel Benitez, El Cordobes.
Too left field..?

Maybe a little, but I'm going to try to find it now to read!

Good man . I hope you like it. It's very evocative. Bullfighting queues in Madrid and dirt poverty in Andalucia, around when Republican insurgency was just beginning...

Here's another one I'll throw out there. Fiction this time.

My name is Nikki but my friends all call me Coco after Coco Chanel, a French lady who lived to be ninety.

Bonne Chance!...

Shanghai Baby...

what about

"See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt."

I hope this hasn't been posted before, I was too lazy to look. This book disturbs me in the way that the present pooling into the past does.

Ah yes, the first installation of The Border Trilogy, better known as All The Pretty Horses. The book that really haunted me out of the trilogy is the second book, The Crossing. McCarthy is an American treasure. I love his fiction. Someone else can post a new quote to guess.

OK, here we go;

"Hot, thought the Parisians."

Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky. I just finished it about a month ago. What a devastating book.
Let's stay French.
How about "Mother died today. Or was it yesterday?

It's called The Stranger.

"a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it"

Aha! You gave yourself away on the "What are you reading right now" board, less. At first I thought it was Vonnegut, but then I realized, Gravity's Rainbow, by Pynchon. Since, I "cheated," I'll make my next one pretty easy.
"Gregor Samsa awoke from unsettled dreams, to find that he had been transformed into an enormous cockroach."

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Aha! You gave yourself away on the "What are you reading right now" board, less. At first I thought it was Vonnegut, but then I realized, Gravity's Rainbow, by Pynchon.

Ha ha, yeah I thought that might actually throw people off a bit. I just thought it was a good quote more then anything. Hard to pass up.

By the way, that one is The Metamorphisis. It was pretty easy

This is a harder one I think:

I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.