re: Recommend a book by its first sentence

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”

"The night was sultry." - Untitled

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“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”

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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.

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin

In the Big Inning......

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

"One up a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith." - Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

(A river runs through it)

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.