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The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/9/2008 12:08:48 PM
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raspberry331
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What's the first sentence in the book you're reading?
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/9/2008 12:52:11 PM
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Drizzt Do'Urden crouched in a crevice between a pair of boulders on the side of a mountain, looking down at a curious gathering.
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/9/2008 6:16:20 PM
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Auben
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Which book I'm reading?
How about...
"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetary of Forgotten Books for the first time."
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/13/2008 4:28:51 PM
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ConstantReader
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I waited and watched for seven years.
Stephen King, "Dolan's Cadillac"
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/13/2008 6:12:36 PM
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I've started to read the series of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels (yes, the same Aubrey and Maturin as in the film "Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World"). They're just fabulous, full of rip-roaring adventure, quirky characters and exotic locations. I'm now reading volume 4, with 16 still to go. The whole epic begins like this:
"The music-room in the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli's C major quartet."
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 2:58:36 AM
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"Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his mysterious and tragic death, was a strange type, despicable and vicious and at the same time absurd." - the first sentence from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 11:36:48 AM
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Superficiality is the curse of our age.
from: Celebration of Discipline- Richard J. Foster
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 11:57:24 AM
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"Psychology is defined as the scientific study of thinking and behavior." - Psychology Applied to Work
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 12:37:34 PM
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The book I just finished:
Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
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Do not be overly righteous, Nor be overly wise: Why should you destroy yourself?
Ecclesiastes 7:16
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 12:41:21 PM
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crankius
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The book I'm just starting:
Meung, a pretty market town on the Loire and the birthplace of Jean de Meung, author of the Romance of the Rose, was more or less used to disturbances of one sort or another because of the troublous times.
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Do not be overly righteous, Nor be overly wise: Why should you destroy yourself?
Ecclesiastes 7:16
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 1:22:51 PM
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A swift gray November wind had taken every chimney of the house for an organ pipe and was roaring in them all at once.
The Curate's Awakening (formerly Thomas Wingfold, curate)
by George MacDonald
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 1:54:01 PM
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uncabeeil
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"They were going to kill Arthur." - from Merlin, by Stephen Lawhead
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Pretty leaves are falling down,
Green, orange, yellow and brown.
Here comes one colored red,
It landed on my head.
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 7:35:57 PM
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garsyt
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"It's the same every year
100 degrees in the shade
as we trudge back to school,
thinking of the beach
and the long days of swimming
and hanging out,
wearing what we want,
eating when we like,
doing what we like,
and now. . .
Mum even ironed my uniform!"
From this adorable book I picked up at the library today to read with my eldest dd. It's titled Naked Bunyip Dancing and is written by Australian author Steven Herrick. It's a novel written entirely in verse/poem form and very well I might add. Hilarious for the most part - but other parts are absolutely heartbreaking!
Blessings,
Garsy
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 9:14:53 PM
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semperfidelis
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quote:
ORIGINAL: alias007
Superficiality is the curse of our age.
from: Celebration of Discipline- Richard J. Foster
What alias007 said.
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If I rise and succeed, it's because His hand has lifted me.
I may not have 3 greek letters but I have 2 latin words: SEMPER FIDELIS (no, I'm not a marine, but we like the same things)
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 9:34:25 PM
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butterfly616
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"The noises, faint, fleeting, whispered into her consciousness like wraiths in the night."
Brink of Death by Brandilyn Collins
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 9:37:34 PM
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rae_of_light
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There is a call--no, a cry--coming from the heart of God and with each passing day its intensity increases: "Why are you satisfied without my presence; why do you remain distant when you could have intimacy with Me?" -From "Drawing Near" by John Bevere. Amazing book, I recommend it to anyone who desires to be nearer to the Lord.
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I don't have to change who I am to be cool
I don't have to drink to have a good time
...And you're asking me what MY problem is?
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/14/2008 10:25:25 PM
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Have you ever noticed that some things relevant to one generation are completely outmoded and useless to another?
Josh McDowell....A Ready Defense
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/16/2008 7:28:56 PM
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"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
Holy Bible - ESV
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The greatness of God rouses fear within us, but His goodness encourages us not to be afraid of Him. To fear and not be afraid - that is the paradox of faith. (A. W. Tozer)
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/18/2008 8:14:14 AM
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Consecrated2God
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There's a question that haunts me in the blackest hours of night, when wasted moments crowd my dreams and mock the life I know.
From "Covenant Child" by Terri Blackstock.
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/18/2008 9:51:49 AM
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.
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O Grave! where is thy Victory?
O Death! where is thy Sting?
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/21/2008 6:14:17 PM
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It was just past midday, not long before the third summons to prayer, that Ammar ibn Khairan passed through the Gate of the Bells and entered into the palace of Al-Fontina in Silvenes to kill the last of the khalifs of Al-Rassan.
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay.
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When we know who is coming, how can we worry about what is coming? When the last hour belongs to us, how can we worry about the next minute?
Ross Crighton
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RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading - 7/22/2008 1:25:02 AM
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Strider33
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"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
And here's my all time favorite first sentence:
"Life is difficult."
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