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- Gorod rated 8 days ago
- This selection left much to be desired.
themaninblack rated 3 weeks ago- From the page: "24. 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. -Paul Auster, City of Glass (1985)
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29. Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. - Ha Jin, Waiting (1999)
30. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. -William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)"- From the page: "24. 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. -Paul Auster, City of Glass (1985)
- Mr-R-Wilson rated 3 weeks ago
- Many of these lines are meaningless.
- OrangeAppled rated 3 weeks ago
- From the page: "6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. â€"Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina"
- Moheli rated 3 weeks ago
- One of the few that I may have to visit again and again.
- Prima-Donna rated 3 weeks ago
- The 100 best first lines from novels. I liked George Orwells "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen" from the novel 1984. The list reminded me of some books I'd like to re-read.
- jonathandh rated 4 weeks ago
- A fun list to browse, though many, myself included, will quibble with the choices. Personal favorites from this list: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. --Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955) He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. --Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952) The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. --Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
- okirun rated 4 weeks ago
- My favorite first line isn't on the list: "The year Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette." -The Princess Bride The first line of Biting the Sun sucked me in immediately too, but I can't remember it exactly.. (go read it. ;D )
- TotallyGonzo rated 4 weeks ago
- What about this one - "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold." Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas http://totallygonzo.wordpress.com
