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Post by theravenking on Oct 25, 2023 15:05:54 GMT
Post the first line of the book you are currently reading.
From The Witch Of The Low Tide by John Dickson Carr
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Post by mowlick on Oct 25, 2023 17:47:37 GMT
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
A tale of two cities : Charles Dickens
I doubt that I will get any further. I have always felt that I should read Dickens and it no doubt speaks for my pathological shallowness that I haven't, but he doesn't work for me
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2023 18:13:36 GMT
The House was named 'The Cave'. It was a large oldfashioned three-storied building standing in about an acre of ground, and situated about a mile outside the town of Mugsborough.
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 25, 2023 21:08:19 GMT
I pace in our cell in Erudite headquarters, her words echoing in my mind: My name will be Edith Prior, and there is much I am happy to forget.
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
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Post by Catman on Oct 25, 2023 21:12:29 GMT
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Oct 26, 2023 4:40:57 GMT
Because the book I just started has a crappy first line, I'm going to cheat and use the book I finished earlier today.
- The Great Gatsby
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 8, 2023 16:19:14 GMT
Two minutes before he disappeared forever from the face of the Earth he knew, Josph Schwartz strolled along the pleasant streets of suburban Chicago quoting Browning to himself.  |
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 8, 2023 16:29:27 GMT
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
A tale of two cities : Charles Dickens
I doubt that I will get any further. I have always felt that I should read Dickens and it no doubt speaks for my pathological shallowness that I haven't, but he doesn't work for me
A Tale Of Two Cities is a great book with one of the greatest, saddest, most inspiring heroes ever. As that first sentence is very famous, even more so is the last sentence. Indeed, the last couple of pages I could never read aloud without my voice shaking just a little. It is packed with unforgettable characters and is intricately plotted. Don't worry, for example, that a middle of the book chapter about how Jerry Cruncher's young son learns how his father makes extra money seems not to have anything to do with anything - except that it returns in one of the last chapters and proves important. This is a book that I can read again and again although I admit it is the only Dickens book I feel that way about. |
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Post by thekindercarebear on Nov 8, 2023 16:47:35 GMT
Snatcher by Dean Koontz.
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 16, 2023 1:45:53 GMT
“We called it t’bottom field, never wondering where, in relation to “t’bottom,” t’middle and t’top field might be.” Also, on an introductory blank page before the first chapter is this quote: “The web of our life is a mangled yarn: good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whippt them not: and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherisht by our virtues.” William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well |
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Post by theravenking on Dec 21, 2023 9:37:54 GMT
From the short story Scotland Yard’s Christmas by John Dickson Carr
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 21, 2023 15:07:22 GMT
Serena wasn't in the airport waiting area when Francie got off the plane in Albuquerque, but a man carrying a sign reading FIRST CONTACT COMMITTEE - WELCOME TO THE UFO FESTIVAL was.
The Road To Roswell by Connie Willis
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Dec 24, 2023 0:23:29 GMT
Had Marshall Lipscomb suspected Bill Elliott's real purpose, he would not now be bathing to go out into chill November of 1900 dusk.
- Sironia, Texas by Madison Cooper
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Post by theravenking on Dec 24, 2023 10:35:46 GMT
From Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Thefts of Christmas by Tim Major
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 2, 2024 23:05:07 GMT
"Like a lot of what you are about to read, this story starts with a disagreement." Opposable Thumbs: How siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer. Putnam, 2023.  |
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