guessing classic books by their first sentence

[@AnakinSkywanker]

For the rest of us - a more accessible version of this game: Guessing classic books by their covers.

[@martinelanglois3158]

😂

[@hanaem842]

The only way i can get these right is that the name is on the cover 😂

[@AnakinSkywanker]

@@hanaem842 Sometimes the title is really small print so keeps you on your toes!

[@Esty777]

Lol

[@myweakness1883]

More like: "here's the title, who's the author"? 🤣

[@fritzzorn9086]

I remember reading a biography of Jim Morrison (The Doors) years ago, and I recall a passage talking about how before he was famous, Jim would challenge his friends to take any book off his book shelf, open the start of any chapter, start reading out loud, and Jim would be able to name the author and the book the passage was from. This video reminded me of that.

[@cye101]

jim was a beast. he wrote papers from books that were so obscure his teacher had to look them up in library of congress to even verify they were real. (they were).

[@AnUncreativePerson]

What was the biography called? I'm looking for a good Jim Morrison biography.

[@cye101]

@@AnUncreativePerson "No One Here Gets Out Alive"

[@AnUncreativePerson]

@@cye101 Thanks

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I’m just going to pretend I never left!

[@elysec8726]

This makes me wonder if there’s a different way to engage with books that would lead to the ability to do this. Love seeing you two together, thank you for all the lovely content!

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

Your friendship is so adorable, I think I can speak for a lot of your fans when I say that I wish I had a friend that was interested in similar literature or even reading lol.

[@trin1894]

this was so much fun to watch (and very impressive lol), we love carolyn!!

[@lyne3783]

I found it cute that you looked at each other because I really thought they did it for a cute editing and they were in different rooms recording until 0:19

[@ania3827]

I'm so happy I found your channel, not only you have an immaculate book taste, but your voice is also very soothing:)

[@Freakingcurly]

Emma crushed this, buuut, being fair, Carolyn had to guess some books that she hadn't read hahaha. I want the rematch!

[@Tania.atlasinajar]

CARRROOOOLLLLYYNNN!!! 🎉❤ I enjoyed her video so much so thrilled to watch! The internet LOVES your friendship! 🥰

[@pendragon2012]

"Marley was dead." Great job, Emma! You and Carolyn makes such great videos! 🙂

[@georgianatrutescu]

The perfect duo! This is so fun!! 😍 Min. 16:08 🙌🏽 OMG, Emma! You have such a good memory! 💪🏽 I forgot the first lines of the “Broken Wings” although I read it this week! 😂 I’m Carolyn!

[@Cubehead27]

Seeing you two together is good for my soul ☺️

[@nicolefegan]

This was so much fun! I feel like I also have a freakish memory with stuff like first lines, so I felt very seen watching Emma absolutely crush this

[@sophiaisabelle027]

Classic books are essential to read when you're a newbie when it comes to literature. There's a variety of authors to choose from. The writing styles in that particular time period are far more eloquent and captivating right from the get go. Emmie and Carolyn may be the definition of friends for life. They just get on with each other seamlessly.

[@naisha2442]

thank you, thank you! Didn't realize I needed this in my life

[@bobthecat-rh5dy]

Wow!!!!! That was amazing! You have a memory like an elephant. Never let me go. This book blew me away! I still can’t stop wondering what it was about that book that moved me so deeply. I’m still confused and can’t explain it to myself. I would love to hear your review on this book one day.

[@Emiliemooles]

Emma, you killed this! I am terrible at this. I got 0! To be fair I hadn’t read any of them. I am intrigued by most of them now. Also loved watching you two together 💙

[@wattamayo6529]

You and Carolyn together is such a vibe!! I love these vids ❤

[@muskndusk]

The first line of The Old Curiosity Shop is "Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking." It isn't until page 7 that he mentions the 'inquiry'. I think you have an abridged version of what is a very long novel.

[@aubreyholt279]

Literally pulled "A Moveable Feast" off my shelf to start now!

[@anariana4430]

I love this!! So entertaining! Please make this a series, also Carolyn is so lovely. Love the both of you!! ❤️❤️

[@thirdonetoo1212]

That was delightful. Thank-you for putting a smile in this rather dull day.

[@duyguacar2504]

Even though i read to kill a mocking bird and brave new world, i couldnt get it. Congrats Emma👏👏👏 you are amazing girls. It is Wonderful to see you together.

[@joshua6602]

I felt validated as soon as you said, you thought it was to How To Kill A Mockingbird. Because that what’s I though for awhile as well 😅😂

[@boohoobea]

this and carolyn's are so cute to watch 🤍

[@baxtermaxtor]

Platinum friendship, I'm still moved that you two finally met

[@rondoflicflac]

Love seeing you guys together!!!!

[@brianwashines2645]

With Kerouac it is not the actual first sentence but the rhythm of the opening paragraph that one can gauge what his book is supposed to be. The pastoral and florrid opening of most novels were passé to Kerouac and his peers by then and he took off the reins a bit so that, while there's a period, it behaves like a drum beat of phrases that are meant to have a run-on feeling.

[@dohabeshir9405]

so happy to see you guys together !

[@denisefreitas6727]

You nailed it, Emma! You and Carolyn are perfect together! Love this video! ❤️❤️

[@itsjustamy1876]

this was so enjoyable to watch! love listening to you both talk about books

[@hanaalfayez7150]

That was fun. I read the Turn of the Screw and the Yellow Wallpaper and I didn’t guess. You are so good in this ❤

[@lobnaboukadi731]

I did enjoy this "first sentence guessing" thing. You two are just gorgeous and both videos are simply amazing ! Thank you for the fun and book recommendations ^^

[@robland6804]

This was fun, you guys need to develop this idea of literary games/trivia for a whole series -- it has real potential, like the book guy who's gotten millions of views simply roasting bookshelves. For example, it might be fun to use the maps in Malcolm Bradbury's "Atlas of Literature" and guess what book happened in a specific map. Or guess places on Tolkien's Middle Earth map. Or guess a fictional world by its map. More of these trivia type videos, please!

[@dearlolly2293]

I also always wanna say "how to kill a mockingbird" instead of "to kill a mockingbird" lmao

[@jamesduggan7200]

Where is Wuthering Heights

[@ksch1177]

this is very nicely edited, so nice to guess along! :)

[@changelingreader14]

Coming a few months late to express my utter outrage (/j) that Carolyn did not, in fact, read the first sentence of The Turn of the Screw. I knew it as soon as she said the title because I read that in October and that sentence was totally wrong to me, so I checked. The actual first sentence is: "The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child." Carolyn read the first sentence of Part I, so all judgement on it is unfair to Mr. James even if I cared sadly little for the book myself. Still, 'twas a fun video where I correctly guessed all the ones I had read before and had the right first sentence. And good job Emma for doing so well.

[@millinatasmi7055]

Have been waiting for this aaaaa!!!!

[@katietatey]

I have read most of those and missed most of them, LOL. But on the other hand, my superpower is being forgetful of plots so I can read books I've read before or watch movies I've seen before and it's all new again. It was very cool that you got so many right though! :)

[@katerina9159]

I’m like that too!😂 I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse

[@kemizehabib-mohammed8791]

"It's giving Dickens" God When!! 😭😭

[@suilgnkesmez7303]

this was so fun to watch! I was wondering if you could recommend some books that deal with losing your passion. Thank you for all your book recommendations and other content

[@AkaHeiwa]

This was so much fun! I love your energy together

[@martasgreatlibrary]

emma your brain omg!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was sooo much fun

[@tuanh6775]

Your videos inspire my love for literature

[@martinelanglois3158]

Was waiting for this one after seeing Carolyn's. Very impressed. With both.

[@Camille_233]

It’s so impressive that Dorian Gray was Oscar’s first and last novel ever written. He wasn’t a novelist actually at all. This man with so sensitive and soft soul had much potential.

[@christopherpaul7588]

I love On the Road and was fortunate to have read it at the perfect time, but I agree it's not the best opening line.

[@juli3836]

I needed this duo sm😊

[@yvettem.holland5072]

I played along and my score was zero. BUT to encourage myself to read more, I will still buy myself a book😂

[@nikkivenable3700]

Same!🤣

[@PauloRoberto-ru7dg]

I did enjoy this awesome challenge. Looking forward for the next one.

[@anushribhattacharjee5329]

Oh my god. Same I too uses to think its "How to kill a mockingbird" idk why😂 aa if trying to finish the sentence. Then my friend told me "girl its not a guide book😂 its to kill a mockingbird." Btw i absolutely adore that book.

[@taliw7736]

Wonderful this is one of my favorite challenges 💟🙂 I really like this older booktuber challenges. Super fun thanks Emmie

[@mayflowerlash11]

I gotta say I am impressed too. I just read Dorian Gray because of Emma's straw poll of best books in which Dorian Gray was frequently at number one. Have you memorised all the books you have read?

[@ZoeMikelStites]

Im so impressed by both of you playing this tbh you'd both trounce me lmao

[@ZoeMikelStites]

Now I want to do this with fantasy books though

[@joeknecht429]

I didn’t get any right, mostly because I haven’t read most of them, except Cloud Atlas and Great Gatsby. Those lines sounded vaguely familiar, but there’s no way I’d ever place them. Definitely not that quickly!

[@donna25871]

It’s like the Beadle game where you have to guess the song after hearing one second.

[@kamicastillo1451]

Your friendship is so precious!

[@hunterghobadi1269]

The ending of Orient Express was a cop out.

[@__rishikasingh]

My fav gorgeous gorgeous youtubers together !!!! 💗

[@etiennedevignolles7538]

I got a few of those, but have not heard of many of them. 😮

[@zephyrlee9762]

I got 3 and I’m impressed already (?) So mad at myself for not getting cloud atlas and the yellow wallpaper!!!

[@libellulareading8859]

Hell yeah 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I don’t know who to root for, lol. These videos are so entertaining though!!! Can’t wait to watch!!

[@hajartaoussi5537]

Emma, can you do a short books recommandations video

[@luiscrespo9902]

Emma is off the chart!

[@kathy2539]

Emma you’re a star! ✨

[@AlexandraNMorgan]

Pretty impressive deductive reasoning to remember the book the line came from.

[@Esty777]

Emma we need the rest of your vlog of reading Hundred Years of Solitude!!!!

[@Uahuu]

Emma forgot to struggle 😭😭😭

[@Lana-ou8vu]

✨Please please please do this a again! This was so fun! For example, you can also guess the front cover of a book (and then cover the title of course).✨

[@dulcepelayo7571]

Wish I had that memory :’)

[@alicelacefield4979]

Wow! What an amazing memory! I am in awe😅

[@graceriak4197]

Great job Emma😃😃😃. I’m happy that I was able to guess the second one😂😂 The Great Gatsby.

[@oo0phelia]

I was so impressed with myself that I guessed the great gatsby correctly 😮 almost everything else though … I had no clue.

[@janetseager4069]

Love your enthusiasm

[@montypy]

Emmie reminds me of Jacob Collier. Two super nerds. One in literature one in music.

[@penultimateh766]

Our hosts' erudition, pleasant demeanor, and beauty all blow me away.

[@tiaraulfah8560]

this video needs to be extended to 4 hours

[@fritzzorn9086]

lol, I hope not! That's 3 hours, 43 minutes that we could spend reading ourselves.

[@EuskaltelEuskadi]

I already commented this on Carolyn's video haha but watch the opera Eugene Onegin (music by Tchaikovsky) after reading the book, it is incredible 🙏

[@myrtolefk]

this was so fun!! can't say i found as many as you but still

[@tess5844]

Your videos together are amazing

[@mayflowerlash11]

Although I am not usually a novel reader (I prefer non fiction) I find your videos charming, absolutely charming.

[@Elena-dn7tu]

OMG！Love this video so much！❤

[@anjapuseljic6754]

I feel so bad for Carolyn 🤣

[@manueldrehmann3229]

i only got the great gatsby and cloud atlas :) nice video

[@Faye_L]

I did great with Carolyn's but only got one of yours! 😭

[@Dark_Souls_3]

Emmie, you mentioned in a previous video a book about snow, with very simple but powerful language and that piqued my interest. I’ve been searching your videos without success for your mention of it. Do you know what I’m talking about?

[@rudyquantil4491]

"A screaming comes across the sky"

[@taliw7736]

Cute collaboration 💓💕☺️

[@lordsauron6461]

9:20 😂

[@queentatoune]

I guess only one... the only one I read haha, Dorian Gray !

[@MartinDSmith]

Excellent Emma,and Carolyn is so gracious!❤️

[@jamesduggan7200]

"Close your eyes and plug your ears." "1, 2, 3, . . . . 46, 47, 48, 49, . . . . 234, 235, 236, 237, . . . 589, 590, 591, . . . . 1,075, 1,076, 1,077, . . . 44,279, 44, 280, 44,281, ..." btw, I didn't do well guessing those 😮‍💨, but tyvm anyway. Hope you two are having a blast!

[@Ozgipsy]

Emma Thompson does a good version of Turn of The Screw on audible.

[@jennac.3173]

Until now, I, too, thought it's called "How to kill a Mockingbird". Welp

[@ReadingNymph]

Hahaha you did amazing!! I knew Dorian Gray so im pleased about that 😅

[@annagyorsa8100]

yeees omg my favourite type of content

[@gabiocampos]

Feeling proud because i got them all correct ❤🎉

[@IzzyRain]

I only got The Goldfinch 😂

[@luzvewild1739]

The first three seconds absolutely blew my mind. Emma, the cinematography genius.