Duffey-Famous First and Last Lines

Last Line: "Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out."

Author: William Thackeray, Born July 18, 1811 Died December 24, 1863, wrote Historical Fiction, Born in Calcutta and died in London, married Isabella Gethin Shawe and had 3 children

Year of Publication:1847

Novel Summary: About the lives of Rebecca Sharp and Amelia Sedley. Rebecca goes home with Amelia after school, Rebecca then meets Captain George Osborne (Amelia's betrothed) and Amelia's brother Joseph. Osborne's friend Captain William Dobbin loves Amelia, but he only wishes her happiness. And there's a bunch of romance and sadness and emotions and etc.

Read or not read?: Never read just not happening. I'm not big on romance novels I mean this book seems like it has adventure but it revolves around romance. It kind of reminds me of Titanic and surprisingly I LOVE Titanic, but Vanity Fair doesn't seem to catch my attention as much. I guess I wouldn't mind trying it because who knows maybe I'd end up liking it in the first place.

First Line: "It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not."

Author: Paul Auster, Born February 3,1947 (still alive-69 yrs old), lives in New Jersey, has a child with former wife (divorced), has a child with present wife, writes absurdist, crime and mystery fiction.

Year of Publication:1985

Novel Summary: A writer called Daniel Quinn gets a strange phone call by Peter Stillman asking for Paul Auster. After talking on the phone for a while Quinn finally agrees to meet with Stillman and it turns out Stillman wants him to protect him from his insane father. In the City of Glass people can never arrive to their desired destination because the difference between self and other is gone in the City of Glass. Quinn ends up losing himself in the streets of New York by the end of the book Quinn disappears in madness.

Read or not Read?: I would maybe read this book, but I would definitely give it a chance. I feel like I would get lost while reading this book. It sounds interesting and very suspenseful which I love suspense. The part though that I feel like I would get lost in is when Quinn goes to the City of Glass. The City of Glass seems to be a complicated place where everything is turned upside down and it has its own rules. Kind of like Alice in Wonderland everything is different and the world has its own rules.