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shemaromans -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/25/2008 12:01:26 AM)

"It was an odd-looking vine." (Wizard's First Rule -- Terry Goodkind)



Strider33 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/29/2008 8:20:43 AM)

I'm offering two corrections to my last entry in this discussion.

I'm reading the book of Micah, right now, and not the book of Genesis. And I'm reading a Spanish version. So the first sentence goes like this:

quote:

Palabra de Jehová que vino a Miqueas de Moreset en días de Jotam, Acaz y Ezequías, reyes de Judá; lo que vio sobre Samaria y Jerusalén.


Generally, I discuss Spanish topics over in the Spanish forum, but this is an exception.



endless_night -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/30/2008 11:03:01 AM)

"Marley was dead, to begin with, there is no doubt whatever about that."

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens



endless_night -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/30/2008 11:04:44 AM)

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ORIGINAL: McFatty

"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


Haha, I'm reading that book too.

The movie is excellent by the way. :)



slushie -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/2/2008 4:18:10 PM)

"Ten Mantas and one giant Juggernaut cruised across empty space, leaving Earth behind - possibly forever, as far as Admiral Willis was concerned."

The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 7: The Ashes of Worlds

By Kevin J. Anderson.



Consecrated2God -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/2/2008 5:59:41 PM)

I just finished "Whence Came a Prince" by Liz Curtis Higgs today, and the first sentence is, "I will never leave you."



sisrev -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/2/2008 11:40:01 PM)

"It all started last Wednesday night at my house." No Other Gods, by Kelly Minter



9drtr -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/4/2008 12:19:54 PM)

The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.

A Game of Thrones George RR Martin



Consecrated2God -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/5/2008 1:55:33 PM)

I've had an aversion to Tuesdays ever since the day my husband robbed the Clark County Savings and Loan.

"The Wedding Caper" by Janice A. Thompson



smilingcutie -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/7/2008 1:00:11 AM)

When I was a kid, our small town paper published wedding announcements, with descriptions of the ceremonies and dresses and pictures of the brides.

Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner



wshepherd -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/9/2008 12:34:43 AM)

"What do you consider to be the rock-bottom essentials of life?"

Living in the Light of Eternity, by K. P. Yohannan.



ledbyfaith -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/9/2008 4:53:19 AM)

Tiny lights winked on the Douglas fir standing tall and full in front of the picture window.



bettymackII -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/9/2008 12:49:25 PM)

I'll never forget the year 1993.

Early in the year I stumbled across solid evidence of a 19th century plot in Great Britain. A clever plot to cover up the real beginnings of the famous,fund-raising pretribulation rapture view of the second coming.


The Rapture Plot by Dave MacPherson



Dancre -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/9/2008 11:24:58 PM)

I inherited Delia by default.

Painted Dresses, Patricia Hickman. :)

kim



Dancre -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/9/2008 11:27:01 PM)

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ORIGINAL: endless_night

"Marley was dead, to begin with, there is no doubt whatever about that."

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens



I was reading CC the other day. I just LOOOVEEE Dickens. I'm also reading Great Expectations. Funny, when I was forced to read it in high school, I hated it. Now I can't put it down. Strange, huh?

kim



greatdivide46 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/10/2008 9:24:03 AM)

"Even before they left home, Moony knew her mother wouldn't return from Mars Hill that year."

from Last Summer at Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand.

Not actually a book, but the first story in a book of short stories.



bettymackII -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/10/2008 9:49:26 AM)

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ORIGINAL: raspberry331

What's the first sentence in the book you're reading?



This is fun! But sorry that I got carried away.
I should have only typed one sentence.Sorry



9drtr -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/17/2008 7:31:24 PM)

At Winterfell they had called her "Arya Horseface" and she'd thought nothing could be worse, but that was before the orphan boy Lommy Greenhands had named her "Lumpyhead."



Zhi -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/18/2008 9:31:26 PM)

"The goat plays in the meadow with her kids."

from "Animal Families" by Derrydale Books.

It's made of cardboard. All 6 pages.

I have seriously got to either find the nearest library to our new abode, or figure out which box is full of the fiction I haven't read yet.



derryderrydown -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/22/2008 10:57:19 PM)

On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit Residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican.

(from "The Sparrow", by Mary Doria Russell)
Science-fiction, as you may guess![&:]

I'm skimming through this thread, cutting and pasting names that strike me! Funny what you can get from a good first sentence!



rae_of_light -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/23/2008 4:25:37 PM)

"Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed."
-Dostoyevsky's 'The Idiot'

Don't be fooled by the boring first sentence, it's actually an awesome book. I love Russian literature!



BeachLover99 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/23/2008 5:06:49 PM)

"As an act of whimsy, or perhaps pique, on June 6, 2003, fate gave Daryn Jane Austin the most impressive birthday gift of her forty-eight years: the presidency of the United States."

The Justice by Angela Hunt



Auben -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/27/2008 12:25:36 PM)

"At the age of 15 my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China."~Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

"New York. Two o'clock in the morning. A chill November drizzle is falling." ~The Irrational Season by Madeleine L'engle



Shells54 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/27/2008 3:44:35 PM)

Perhaps the most important step in learning how to follow Jesus' example and eat the way He ate can be summed up in two important questions.

From What Would Jesus Eat? Don Colbert,M.D



IAMJulie -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (8/27/2008 5:04:15 PM)

"Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami."

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini



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