Guess the Book/Name That Game, round 1

Nabbed from nendil

1. Choose five to ten of your all time favorite books.
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess!

I've censored things where it would be blatently obvious. Oh, and not all are books. About half are computer games. Come to think of it, not all the books are my all-time favourites, since I don't have them with me at uni. So they're whatever I have to hand that I particularly like. But yeah, guess away!

1. I am Doctor Thadeus P. Brain the 3rd. The P stands for Puzzle.
2. These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks.
3. ~ never knew for certain why he started seeing the dead.
4. I don't think my stepfather much minded dying.
5. This is a story of courage, honour and worms. [Worms (the Wormsong) ~ ptristan]
6. Ahhh! There's nothing like a foot massage at the end of a long day....
7. A long, long time ago... when the world was on the verge of being swallowed by shadow... [Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap ~ nendil]
8. ~ was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: [Alice in Wonderland ~ nendil]
9. I realized the moment I fell into the fissure that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. [Myst ~ ricold]

St-t-t-t-t-tuttering sound

I've been getting fed up of an annoying sound problem here (the sound sometimes crackles, usually but not always in relation to activity on the usb bus), and so decided to do some digging. And guess what I found? There's a nasty data corruption bug involving a VIA 686B southbridge (which I have) and a Creative Live card (which I also have). Various BIOS and driver patches fixed this, but in doing so made the creative cards worse! I've a feeling this may be related to a problem I'm having with my graphics card as well (any drivers beyond about 42.30 will lock the computer if a game changes resolution, apparently also a VIA-related bug).

Well, I don't actually use any of the features of the sound card (only have a stero speaker setup, so all I gain is hardware processing and on a Creative card that's not always good), so I've decided to pull it out and go back to the onboard sound which worked. Maybe then I'll be able to update the graphics drivers too...