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Offline galantee

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First sentences thread
« on: January 17, 2008, 02:14:16 pm »
Like the two sentence stories, but now we come up with first sentences that would make people read a book through in one session.

Also, any favs, anyone?
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“That's it. I'm just following my nose and waiting to see what comes up.”
“Welcome to the club.”
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“The International Brotherhood of Lost Dogs. What else? We're letting you in as a certified, card-carrying member. Serial number zero zero zero zero.”
“I thought that was your number.”
“It is. But it's your number too. That's one of the beauties of the Brotherhood. Everyone who joins gets the same number.”

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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2008, 02:25:11 pm »
All this happened, more or less.  Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2008, 11:58:05 am »
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2008, 02:56:02 pm »
Catcher in the rye !
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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2008, 11:48:11 pm »
I have MANY favorites.

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
--Anna Karenina

"The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette."
--The Princess Bride (which is, of course, the greatest book ever written)

"LOLITA, light of my life, fire of my loins.  My sin, my soul."
--Lolita

The third being somewhat ironic because I actually never finished.  I didn't like the writing, and it was just not my cup of tea.  I plan on rereading it...eventually...anyway, I wish the rest of the book had lived up to those opening lines, because they're attention grabbers.  Haha.

"The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."".
--In Cold Blood

An absolutely FASCINATING book that scared the hell out of me because it was true.  Also, the movie "Capote" was equally good.
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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2008, 12:22:04 pm »
Quote from: radtastic on January 19, 2008, 11:48:11 pm
"The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."".
--In Cold Blood

An absolutely FASCINATING book that scared the hell out of me because it was true.  Also, the movie "Capote" was equally good.
YES. Chilling thing to read when you think it all really happened.
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“That's it. I'm just following my nose and waiting to see what comes up.”
“Welcome to the club.”
“Club? What club is that?”
“The International Brotherhood of Lost Dogs. What else? We're letting you in as a certified, card-carrying member. Serial number zero zero zero zero.”
“I thought that was your number.”
“It is. But it's your number too. That's one of the beauties of the Brotherhood. Everyone who joins gets the same number.”

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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2008, 05:31:28 pm »
Call me Ishmael.

Moby Dick, eh. I never read the book, but bloody brilliant line nonetheless.

Pretty conventional of me too. Here's some others.

The Debut by Anita Brookner: "Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature."

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley: "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."

« Last Edit: January 24, 2008, 04:10:54 pm by Kluny »
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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2008, 05:07:29 am »
You would think I care, and I did for awhile, but not now.
(While it was happening, and for some time after, I cared so much I must have been nearly mad, but I don't care now.)


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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2008, 02:51:24 pm »
Quote from: TheMilkman on January 19, 2008, 11:58:05 am
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
« Last Edit: April 17, 2008, 04:05:30 pm by emilyexstacy »
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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2008, 05:26:27 am »
"The story that follows is one that I never intended to commit to paper"
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie."
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones

The next one I'm kind of cheating with but these two sentences pulled me in and its probably one of the best books I've ever read

"She only stopped screaming when she died. It was then that he started to scream"
Jeffrey Archer - Kane And Able

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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2008, 06:47:02 pm »
 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. -1984

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. - Neuromancer

and one that hearkens back to childhood....

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. -The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2008, 01:01:38 am »
Quote from: burning_sands on April 12, 2008, 06:47:02 pm


There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. -The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Lol, love that.
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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2008, 11:50:35 am »
Quote from: Kluny on April 13, 2008, 01:01:38 am
Quote from: burning_sands on April 12, 2008, 06:47:02 pm


There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. -The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Lol, love that.
I remember that! That's probably one of the first books I ever read.
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“That's it. I'm just following my nose and waiting to see what comes up.”
“Welcome to the club.”
“Club? What club is that?”
“The International Brotherhood of Lost Dogs. What else? We're letting you in as a certified, card-carrying member. Serial number zero zero zero zero.”
“I thought that was your number.”
“It is. But it's your number too. That's one of the beauties of the Brotherhood. Everyone who joins gets the same number.”

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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2008, 11:44:46 am »
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
It then precedes to, for an entire chapter, tell you ways to sit, stand, relax, not relax, do yoga, and read.  This book is purely addictive, and you are the main character in it!
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Re: First sentences thread
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2008, 02:38:19 pm »
Quote from: MikeEC216 on April 18, 2008, 11:44:46 am
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
It then precedes to, for an entire chapter, tell you ways to sit, stand, relax, not relax, do yoga, and read.  This book is purely addictive, and you are the main character in it!

that sounds pretty cool :)
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