I Fail Terribly Again (The First Sentence Challenge)

the man has undulating sharks undulating nobody likes that yeah we all know about your sweaty thumbprints yes we do well if you were to read the second sentence it might do it you know it might add more context do it you want to do that do it you're conceding that point why you got to say it so many times you lose good day okay so today we are going to be talking i'm we're going to do the first sentence challenge so corey's going to read the first sentence of some books that i've read hopefully better books i read just the shelf why just these shirts just that shelf these shelves okay and the ones on the floor that i told you were fine i did those things the first sentence of and then i'm gonna try to guess what book it is as i said to the person that requested this video this would be a great way to showcase that i can't remember anything and i shouldn't be on booktube but it should be fun i think it's gonna be easier than you think i really doubt it yeah um so if i get it correct on the first sentence i get three points if he reads the second sentence i get two if you read the third sentence i get one and if inevitably i still don't know i lose okay oh how many points how many points do i get to win the game how many points we have 10 bucks at what point do you lose i don't know like four points probably okay okay i just i'm really excited so the first one's gonna be very easy i threw you a softball for the first one excellent okay you ready for this yes sorry i don't forgive you ash fell from the sky oh it's mistborn it's like such an iconic first line i know wow so i already have three points okay here we go so this is the second one yes the tropical rain fell in drenching sheets hammering the corrugated roof i hate it of the what that i hate it keep going okay i'm gonna start over because you've interrupted me the tropical rain fell in drenching sheets hammering the corrugated roof of the clinic building roaring down the metal gutters splashing on the ground in a torrent i hate it whatever that is i hate it i don't know second sentence uh okay roberta carter sighed and stared out the window oh is it from the clinic she can hardly see the beach or the ocean beyond okay i i don't know who roberta is but is this jurassic park yes i could have gotten it on the first sentence if i hadn't rushed through all right i love michael creighton's pros too really i do i love his reps his ability of complete immersion which that does showcase quite well how immersive his writing see see very immersive okay okay okay okay okay so you got two so i have five points i win yeah two points i don't know what well i just want to win at the end we'll decide if you won or lost and what the rules are going to be oh when we get to the end good good good okay uh book three it was almost december and jonas was beginning to be frightened that's stupid um i don't know i wanna guess a monster calls that's wrong okay go so second sentence second sentence no that's the second sentence third sentence so you failed this one okay so i'll just i'll read it all together it was almost december and jonas was beginning to be frightened no wrong word jonas thought frighten meant that deep sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen read you like four sentences so if you can't get it then you've definitely lost jonas i don't know jonas it's not the giver is it it is but you lose because i read four sentences i that feels like a win no well okay you get one point at best no i totally don't but i feel good about knowing that okay good good see i told you this would be a little bit easier than you than you think go okay uh okay all right you're like i'm struggling now just to look look at look at them the boy the boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon i don't know you know now nothing rings a bell no okay let me just unlock my phone again um though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand his gray shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead it's not bear town no i know how beartown starts so do i because i actually read the first sentence of that book yeah it's a great preparation and i thought meh i don't know the last sentence all around him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of what yeah all around him the long skirt of the flies smashed into the jungle with a bath of heat i don't even know what that sentence means is it the lord of lies it is oh i'm amazing so you get two points that's a one pointer or one pointer yes yes you get one point lower the flies wow yeah i've guessed everyone yes you have except the giver sort of kind of doesn't count go yeah uh okay so fifth one when i stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house i had only two things on my mind paul newman and a ride home shot in the dark an absolutely remarkable thing wrong paul newman i don't i don't read that many books that use a lot of pop culture this one has pop culture um paul newman he was an actor yeah i genuinely don't know who that is and he raced cars i think too and he has a pizza line which we enjoy okay tell me oh tell me that this this is the paul newman that makes you trying really hard not to look at your notes because you're just like flying i don't know what like so read that line again please okay when i stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house the movie house which is odd right i had only two things on my mind paul newman and a ride home okay so i'm thinking it might be a bachmann because bachmann uses pop culture sometimes he uses references like that and movie house sounds like it's translated and bachmann's books are translated i'm trying to think of which one would start like that maybe my grandmother asked me to tell you you should tell me she's sorry tell you she's sorry no is it bachmann no okay it's not well at least i know not to just keep guessing paul knew so i know it sounds classic how old is paul newman he's not that old i know it's not a classic i know it's not bachmann is it my dark vanessa no i'm gonna read the second line yeah okay uh i was wishing i looked like paul newman and he looks tough and i don't oh i read that wrong i like this book i was wishing i looked like paul newman he looks tough and i don't oh is it percy jackson but i guess my own looks aren't so bad is percy jackson no this is a book you like i like this book you love this book i like a book written like that you love this book i don't know about that i will give you can i give you a hint before i give you the third cemetery no it is a classic i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure it's considered a classic how old is paul newman uh old i don't know if he's i don't know if he's still alive or not okay it's a classic is it no he's still alive right i feel like i don't know i feel like no matter if i guess it or not i guess enough that i lose yes you have i can read you the third line i don't know okay third line oh okay i thought you're going to give up i have light brown almost red hair and greenish gray eyes is it the outsiders yes it is the outsiders [Applause] i do love that book so we've established that you failed that one miserably yeah that was terrible okay so now we're moving on do i get minus points for that uh next one number six in the corner of a first class smoking carriage mr justice warngrave lately retired from the bench puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the times oh the times okay that threw me off a little i was thinking we're in a jane austen novel okay so it would be what it how old is the times is the times really old would it be in a classic novel with the times being a classic novel yes yeah yeah uh little women no i don't know he laid the paper down and glanced out the window they were running now through somerset what he glanced at his watch another two hours to go okay okay i want to say it's a jane austen i know someone said it is british town yeah so but everything that jane austen writes is in bath i mean that's not everything she writes is it's not true but she's she's she she stays in one spot for the most part okay okay so does uh demoria and she wouldn't be in summerset me give you a hint sure it's not a genre you really read that often okay so it's historical romance yes there is only one genre that you don't read often and that's it well it has to be historical based on no it doesn't ah is it the nightingale no you mean to read you the last line okay okay uh let me see he went over in his mind all that had appeared in the papers about soldier island soldier island that should have given it away right there what ha what that i mean know genre i don't read much that's soldier island what genre read much are we both genres is it a mystery is it an agatha christie just guess a book is it and then there were none yes soldier island definitely does give it away well then how come you didn't get it right away because i'm dumb okay but yes and then there were none by agatha christie go that's how you pronounce your name actually okay okay so you get one point for that oh probably not okay at best one point all right uh weak sunlight against his eyelids drew him out of sleep i hate it um next next line you don't get it no okay the brightness intruded grew made him blink groggily i hate it i hate it um i cannot believe how badly you're roasting the pros from these books books that i love books that you love i know well you know i know is it the way of kings no okay sanderson doesn't write like that no he doesn't but the way of kings i just noticed has been moved yeah a lot of these books have been moved because i was perusing so that doesn't necessarily indicate that i used them okay okay okay okay who writes like that no one i like sanderson just really does not yeah super doesn't write like that that's true all right give me the last line all right number three uh let me read it first a window was open letting in mild afternoon air and a fresh water smell i hate it i don't know i don't know what that would be all it all it's you heard it here first she hates telling me put the book here is all it's telling me is that somebody woke up and there's light on them well this is the first sentence challenge sure but how am i supposed to like pros off of that you're just you need to just chill out i know on your pros snobbery like it about myself listen i can't change who i am anyway so you you give up you fail i'm gonna tell you the answer tell me the answer republic of three thieves by scott lynch i knew it was going to be lynch the man has undulating sharks undulating nobody likes that there is a shark that was undulating through water what no one can like that i don't know which one was in that it was i think the second one probably i think it was a lot i think it was lies i don't remember oh yeah oh and i know the park probably um okay so moving on once again that's a big old fail uh when red wins she stands alone sorry can you explain that better when red wins she stands alone that is the first sentence of this book no it's not what does that mean is read the name well if you were to read the second sentence it might do it you know it might add more context do it you want to do that do it you're conceding that point why you got to say it so many times oh no i didn't only do it oh second sentence blood slicks her hair what does that mean when red wins is red the character i don't know you should know you're right scarlett by marissa meyer no i only have two sentences from this one because i didn't know we were doing that um all right no uh okay third line she breathes out steam in the blank blank night of this dying world dying world dying world dying world dying world i immediately think that it must be i immediately think of the broken earth trilogy but i know i don't own that trilogy anymore not i just gave it to someone that would like it i want to rebuy it um dying world dying female protagonist dying world it's not monza no no i know how that book starts because it was an ex no it's not dying world i don't like this okay video all right okay so you've lost yeah i'm going to go ahead and tell you the book it is this is how you lose the time war oh that does make sense yeah that all right all right chapter one i am by birth ageneves and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic republic of thieves what what's a gymnasius genovese what's that it's a place um okay okay i i i'm assuming genovese is referring to geneva switzerland i'm assuming read that first because i've not read this book before read that first sentence again i am by birth a genovese and my family is one of the most is one of the most distinguished of that republic okay second sentence my incense oh my ancestors had been for many years counselors and syndics and my father had filled several public situations with honor and reputation okay it's first person which i don't read very much first person at all legend born is first person but i hmm no switzerland red rising is set i think i don't know i'm assuming because i have not read this book i don't know the context of where it's set say those sentences again i am by birth genovese and my family is one of the most distinguished of that english okay so it's not red rising it's not legend born what other first persons do i my ancestors have been for many years counselors and syndics and my father had filled several public situations with honor and reputation could be daughters of henry what's what's sentence three he was respected by all who knew him and his integrity and in i don't know that word i don't read a lot of first person i don't know all right i started this video so strong well you know i tried to make them a little harder are you ready yeah frankenstein oh yeah okay i'm fine with not knowing that or as i like to say frankenstein i read that like three years ago so i'm comfortable with not having gotten that all right you like that book though um okay are you ready yeah um here we go number 10 the fire had gone out and i didn't know what to do why are you british the fire had gone out and i didn't know what to do okay and i don't even know if that's it's just a weird house yeah sure second sentence really okay i was covered with a king's ransom of seven sewn comforters and surrounded by six warming pans so i was still mostly warm okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay just ella yay you get two points for that one i feel really good about that yeah okay that was a good job okay bonus one i even i know exactly what's happening in that scene bonus one go bonus round this is the last one by the way okay sorry all right in the okay excuse i'm so i'm so popular yeah and the year oh my gosh it's zach he just he texts about oh yeah yeah in the year 1878 i took my degree of doctor of medicine of the university of london and proceeded to netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army first person british i'm assuming classic male protagonist so it's not a jane austen it's not little women um it wouldn't be the picture of dorian gray or would it or would it not a great gatsby potentially potentially but then again potentially not it could be a strange case of dr juggal and mr hyde what name do the second sentence ah i just put my phone away well you know what we're doing i have to unlock it because my fingers are sweaty and it doesn't pick up the thumbprint yeah we all know about your sweaty thumbprints yes we do having completed my studies there i was duly attached to the fifth northumberland uh fusiliers as assistant surgeon i don't know the northumberland fusiliers i don't this is a terrible bonus all right okay the regiment was stationed in india at the time and before i could join it the second afghan war had broken out i don't know man a study in scarlet [Music] you lose good day okay willy wonka here i got a lot right there at the beginning though you got like two right and according to youtube miserably people tend to click off after a certain point so to a lot of people i won this to a lot of people hey you started off strong yeah and probably continued that all the real fans are the only the only ones that'll be disappointed so i feel pretty good about that i think i won and you lost right no i think i pretty much killed it yeah so we'll put the score up somewhere if i even keep up shows really don't need so there you go are you happy with how that went nope i'm deleting this video i will never see it i like it anyway okay thanks for joining how many points did you get did you keep up at home i hope you did tell me how much you beat me by check out my patreon or don't i post videos every tuesday through friday i'll see you again soon bye all right [Music] i

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