Do you guys need more to be able to guess it?

I have no idea what that book may be.

Passage #2:

"Somebody saves your life, and they'll love you forever. It's that old Chinese custom where if somebody saves your life, they're responsible for you forever. It's as if now you're their child. For the rest of their lives, these people will write me. Send me cards on the anniversary. Birthday cards. It's depressing how many people get this same idea. They call you on the phone. To find out if you're feeling okay. To see if you maybe need cheering up. Or cash."

Google-fu revealed the answer, but i'll let someone who actually KNOWS the book to answer.

It's from Choke, written by that guy that wrote Fight Club (his name is impossible to spell).

That is correct Licurg, it's been one of my favorites for over a decade now. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk . His name is so difficult to pronounce, that he admits his family probably pronounces it worse than any other Palahniuks on the planet, but they pride themselves on the fact that at least they didn't drop any letters from the last name, as many have.

Let's see what Licurg has for us.

Try this one :





"One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is it's susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one that promises the most personal benefits. Here is the Achilles' heel of armies, police and bureaucracies."

Nobody?

The White Plague, by Frank Herbert?

Yep, you are correct, your turn :)

And now, a quote from my favorite book:
"When I was a younger man--two wives ago, 250,000 cigarettes ago, 3,000 quarts of booze ago...
When I was a much younger man, I began to collect material for a book to be called The Day the World Ended.
The book was to be factual.
The book was to be an account of what important Americans had done on the day when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
It was to be a Christian book. I was a Christian then.
I am a Bokononist now."

Cat's Cradle?

It definitely sounds like Vonnegut, but I haven't read this one.

Well, mine will unfortunately be very easy for classic horror readers.

"It must have been frightful - I could hear the screams up here in spite of all I was seeing and hearing from another direction, and later it was rather awful to find those empty heaps of clothes around the house. Mrs. Updike's clothes were close to the front hall switch - that's how I know she did it. It got them all. But so long as we don't move we're fairly safe. Remember we're dealing with a hideous world in which we are practically helpless... Keep still!"