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re: Post the opening line from the book you are currently reading.

Posted on 6/8/21 at 4:24 pm to
Posted by Dubosed
Gulf Breeze
Member since Nov 2012
7036 posts
Posted on 6/8/21 at 4:24 pm to
Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.
Posted by Htowntiger90
Houston
Member since Dec 2018
938 posts
Posted on 6/15/21 at 9:49 am to
Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.

Suttree, Cormac McCarthy

Didn't realize we were posting the same book back to back.
This post was edited on 6/15/21 at 9:52 am
Posted by TommyCheeseballs
Milwaukee WI
Member since Jan 2007
8355 posts
Posted on 6/18/21 at 5:41 pm to
Once upon a time we had a love affair with fire, the president of the United States thought as the match that he’d just struck to light his pipe flared beneath his fingers.

Swan Song- Robert McCammon
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
20013 posts
Posted on 6/21/21 at 2:04 pm to
Nude from the waist down, the woman arched her back off the gurney and kicked a padded ankle restraint across the room.

Ranger Confidential by Andrea Langford
(Life as a National Park Service ranger)

Posted by pvilleguru
Member since Jun 2009
60453 posts
Posted on 6/23/21 at 1:02 pm to
Even in death the boys were trouble.
Posted by Adajax
Member since Nov 2015
6109 posts
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:11 pm to
In the cold, nearly colorless night of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north.

John Adams by David McCullough
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