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re: Recommend a book by its first sentence
Posted on 12/5/15 at 10:19 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Posted on 12/5/15 at 10:19 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Posted on 12/5/15 at 10:38 pm to Mars duMorgue
“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
Posted on 12/5/15 at 11:08 pm to Tigertracks
"I sent one boy to the gas chamber at Huntsville"
No Country For Old Men
No Country For Old Men
This post was edited on 12/5/15 at 11:22 pm
Posted on 12/5/15 at 11:18 pm to KosmoCramer
"The night was sultry." - Untitled
Posted on 12/5/15 at 11:26 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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I'm pretty much fricked.
FIFY
Posted on 12/5/15 at 11:34 pm to detmut
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“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
That's a really good one.
"'What's it going to be then, eh?'"
That was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry.
Posted on 12/5/15 at 11:38 pm to The Seaward
"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault."
Posted on 12/5/15 at 11:57 pm to Eman5805
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
Posted on 12/6/15 at 12:15 am to Carson123987
Almost done with this one the second time. Even better.
quote:
See the child.
Posted on 12/6/15 at 12:16 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin
Posted on 12/6/15 at 2:04 am to Mars duMorgue
In the Big Inning......
Posted on 12/6/15 at 2:08 am to Mars duMorgue
"It all began on a bleak Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia, known familiarly as the City of Brotherly Love, but more accurately as the City of Bleak November Afternoons." -- S.J. Perelman, Westward Ha!
Posted on 12/6/15 at 2:15 am to Mars duMorgue
Life is like a penis: When it's soft, you can't beat it; when it's hard, you get screwed.
- The House of God
- The House of God
Posted on 12/6/15 at 2:56 am to Mars duMorgue
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.
Slaughterhouse Five (of course)
Slaughterhouse Five (of course)
Posted on 12/6/15 at 4:30 am to Mars duMorgue
"One up a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith." - Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
Posted on 12/6/15 at 4:42 am to Mars duMorgue
Revelation. (Ranters will get it).
Posted on 12/6/15 at 7:21 am to Mars duMorgue
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
(A river runs through it)
(A river runs through it)
Posted on 12/6/15 at 7:36 am to 1234567k
It was a few days after the tenth of August, 1949, when I first saw the Mann Gulch fire and started to become, even then in part consciously, a small part of its story.
(Young men and fire)
(Young men and fire)
Posted on 12/6/15 at 9:10 am to Mars duMorgue
Robert E Lee paused to dip his pen once more in the inkwell, despite flannel shirt, uniform coat and heavy winter boots, he shivered a little.
- opening line of Guns of The South. A book about time-travelers arming the confederacy with AK-47s.
- opening line of Guns of The South. A book about time-travelers arming the confederacy with AK-47s.
Posted on 12/6/15 at 9:17 am to Napoleon
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ON THOSE CLOUDY DAYS, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back
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