Best First Lines
- Descripción
- Novels that have excellent or memorable first lines. Started from American Book Review's 100 Best First Lines from Novels (http://americanbookreview.org/100bestlines.asp)
1
por Herman Melville
35,558 miembros
541 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 16
Puntuacion 6.07
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Call me Ishmael.
2
por Jane Austen
80,581 miembros
1,368 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 1
Puntuacion 16.02
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
3
por Thomas Pynchon
10,746 miembros
142 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 66
Puntuacion 3.04
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: A screaming comes across the sky.
4
44,413 miembros
693 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 14
Puntuacion 6.7
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
5
por Vladimir Nabokov
31,693 miembros
563 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 44
Puntuacion 4.32
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
6
por Leo Tolstoy
38,444 miembros
627 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 15
Puntuacion 6.21
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
7
por James Joyce
5,331 miembros
58 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 47
Puntuacion 4.09
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
8
por George Orwell
81,914 miembros
1,270 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 5
Puntuacion 11.2
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
9
por Charles Dickens
36,627 miembros
456 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 6
Puntuacion 10.98
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: 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.
10
por Ralph Ellison
16,373 miembros
212 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 48
Puntuacion 4.04
Añadido 2022-06-15, 12:11 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: I am an invisible man.
11
por Nathanael West
774 miembros
33 reseñas
½ 3.4
Ranking Global 46
Puntuacion 4.23
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.
12
por Mark Twain
42,947 miembros
518 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 10
Puntuacion 8.53
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
13
por Franz Kafka
19,876 miembros
237 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 50
Puntuacion 3.79
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:10 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
14
por Italo Calvino
12,515 miembros
258 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 53
Puntuacion 3.67
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
15
por Samuel Beckett
1,659 miembros
25 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 86
Puntuacion 2.03
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
16
por J. D. Salinger
69,523 miembros
1,078 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 18
Puntuacion 5.97
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: 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.
17
por James Joyce
21,203 miembros
217 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 23
Puntuacion 5.67
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
18
por Ford Madox Ford
4,784 miembros
114 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 29
Puntuacion 5.31
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
19
por Laurence Sterne
7,663 miembros
113 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 21
Puntuacion 5.75
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:13 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.
20
por Charles Dickens
20,665 miembros
275 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 24
Puntuacion 5.61
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
21
por James Joyce
24,068 miembros
377 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 58
Puntuacion 3.44
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
22
100 miembros
1 reseña
4
Ranking Global 90
Puntuacion 1.85
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
23
por Thomas Pynchon
10,989 miembros
194 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 57
Puntuacion 3.46
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.
24
por Paul Auster
1,450 miembros
35 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 60
Puntuacion 3.37
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
25
por William Faulkner
17,266 miembros
226 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 61
Puntuacion 3.34
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
26
por Toni Morrison
22,821 miembros
405 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 26
Puntuacion 5.49
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: 124 was spiteful.
27
30,504 miembros
449 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 25
Puntuacion 5.52
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.
28
por Albert Camus
35,502 miembros
507 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 28
Puntuacion 5.34
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Mother died today.
29
por Ha Jin
4,061 miembros
81 reseñas
½ 3.6
Ranking Global 91
Puntuacion 1.72
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
30
por William Gibson
23,056 miembros
379 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 42
Puntuacion 4.54
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
31
12,515 miembros
155 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 92
Puntuacion 1.7
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.
32
por Samuel Beckett
579 miembros
10 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 93
Puntuacion 1.68
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Where now? Who now? When now?
33
por Gertrude Stein
445 miembros
3 reseñas
3.1
Ranking Global 95
Puntuacion 1.67
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. "Stop!" cried the groaning old man at last, "Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree."
34
por John Barth
620 miembros
11 reseñas
½ 3.6
Ranking Global 96
Puntuacion 1.66
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.
35
por Richard Powers
1,329 miembros
28 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 97
Puntuacion 1.65
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: It was like so, but wasn't.
36
por William Gaddis
1,374 miembros
19 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 98
Puntuacion 1.63
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: —Money . . . in a voice that rustled.
37
por Virginia Woolf
20,622 miembros
329 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 36
Puntuacion 5.03
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
38
por Kurt Vonnegut
43,996 miembros
704 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 11
Puntuacion 8.07
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: All this happened, more or less.
39
por Toni Morrison
4,888 miembros
49 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 99
Puntuacion 1.6
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: They shoot the white girl first.
40
por Marcel Proust
11,127 miembros
183 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 64
Puntuacion 3.21
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: For a long time, I went to bed early.
41
por Felipe Alfau
193 miembros
2 reseñas
½ 3.4
Ranking Global 100
Puntuacion 1.58
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: The moment one learns English, complications set in.
42
por Anita Brookner
558 miembros
18 reseñas
½ 3.5
Ranking Global 55
Puntuacion 3.57
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
43
por Vladimir Nabokov
7,938 miembros
139 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 101
Puntuacion 1.56
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane;
44
19,103 miembros
345 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 13
Puntuacion 7.51
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
45
por Edith Wharton
9,493 miembros
214 reseñas
½ 3.6
Ranking Global 31
Puntuacion 5.21
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
46
por Walter Abish
240 miembros
6 reseñas
½ 3.6
Ranking Global 102
Puntuacion 1.54
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:25 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant, and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal ant annexation.
47
por C. S. Lewis
25,368 miembros
257 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 2
Puntuacion 14.23
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:25 PM
- 6 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it
48
por Ernest Hemingway
30,698 miembros
505 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 65
Puntuacion 3.05
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
49
por Iain Banks
3,208 miembros
60 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 103
Puntuacion 1.51
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: It was the day my grandmother exploded.
50
27,134 miembros
631 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 68
Puntuacion 3.02
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
51
por Sinclair Lewis
1,537 miembros
44 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 104
Puntuacion 1.5
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:27 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Elmer Gantry was drunk.
52
por Louise Erdrich
2,184 miembros
37 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 105
Puntuacion 1.49
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:27 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
53
por Ray Bradbury
53,879 miembros
997 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 7
Puntuacion 10.35
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 5 Members
- hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: It was a pleasure to burn.
54
por Graham Greene
6,524 miembros
171 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 38
Puntuacion 4.94
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
55
por Flann O'Brien
3,273 miembros
63 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 106
Puntuacion 1.47
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression.
56
por Daniel Defoe
24,859 miembros
322 reseñas
½ 3.6
Ranking Global 39
Puntuacion 4.9
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:29 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.
57
por David Markson
1,520 miembros
35 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 107
Puntuacion 1.46
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:29 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.
58
por George Eliot
17,706 miembros
330 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 40
Puntuacion 4.86
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:30 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
59
por Joseph Heller
39,990 miembros
525 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 108
Puntuacion 1.44
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:30 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: It was love at first sight.
60
220 miembros
7 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 109
Puntuacion 1.44
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:30 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?
61
6,222 miembros
115 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 37
Puntuacion 4.97
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:31 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.
62
por Anne Tyler
3,663 miembros
63 reseñas
½ 3.5
Ranking Global 110
Puntuacion 1.43
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:31 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
63
por G.K. Chesterton
1,124 miembros
16 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 111
Puntuacion 1.42
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:32 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
64
72,102 miembros
1,168 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 22
Puntuacion 5.71
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
65
por Alice Walker
19,713 miembros
335 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 35
Puntuacion 5.07
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: You better not never tell nobody but God.
66
por Salman Rushdie
12,042 miembros
138 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 41
Puntuacion 4.67
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- aethercowboy: "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
67
por Sylvia Plath
28,088 miembros
501 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 19
Puntuacion 5.92
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:38 PM
- 3 Members
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- aethercowboy: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:38 PM
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- aethercowboy: Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.
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por Saul Bellow
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:39 PM
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- aethercowboy: If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:40 PM
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- aethercowboy: Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Saviour at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up.
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por Günter Grass
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4
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:40 PM
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- aethercowboy: Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.
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por Stanley Elkin
181 miembros
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½ 3.3
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:41 PM
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- aethercowboy: When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson.
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por Robert Coover
296 miembros
5 reseñas
3.8
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:41 PM
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- aethercowboy: Hiram Clegg, together with his wife Emma and four friends of the faith from Randolph Junction, were summoned by the Spirit and Mrs. Clara Collins, widow of the beloved Nazarene preacher Ely Collins, to West Condon on the weekend of the eighteenth and nineteenth of April, there to await the End of the World.
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por Henry James
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:42 PM
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- aethercowboy: She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him.
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por Ernest Hemingway
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:42 PM
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- aethercowboy: In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.
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por Rose Macaulay
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3.8
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:43 PM
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- aethercowboy: "Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
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por Joseph Conrad
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:43 PM
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- aethercowboy: He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
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por L. P. Hartley
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:44 PM
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- aethercowboy: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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por Russell Hoban
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4.2
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:44 PM
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- aethercowboy: On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.
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por William Gaddis
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
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- aethercowboy: Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
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por J. G. Ballard
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
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- aethercowboy: Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.
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por Dodie Smith
9,200 miembros
294 reseñas
4.1
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
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- aethercowboy: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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por Katherine Dunn
6,142 miembros
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:46 PM
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- aethercowboy: "When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing."
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por John Barth
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40 reseñas
4.2
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:46 PM
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- aethercowboy: In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talented, and yet more talented than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship, had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point.
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por James Crumley
1,009 miembros
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:47 PM
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- aethercowboy: When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
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por William Faulkner
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:47 PM
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- aethercowboy: It was just noon that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.
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por Robert Graves
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168 reseñas
4.2
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:48 PM
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- aethercowboy: I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot," or "That Claudius," or "Claudius the Stammerer," or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius," am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled.
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por Charles Johnson
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:49 PM
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- aethercowboy: Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.
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por Saul Bellow
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3.8
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:49 PM
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- aethercowboy: I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
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por Sinclair Lewis
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:50 PM
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- aethercowboy: The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
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por John Hawkes
305 miembros
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:50 PM
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- aethercowboy: I will tell you in a few words who I am: lover of the hummingbird that darts to the flower beyond the rotted sill where my feet are propped; lover of bright needlepoint and the bright stitching fingers of humorless old ladies bent to their sweet and infamous designs; lover of parasols made from the same puffy stuff as a young girl's underdrawers; still lover of that small naval boat which somehow survived the distressing years of my life between her decks or in her pilothouse; and also lover of poor dear black Sonny, my mess boy, fellow victim and confidant, and of my wife and child. But most of all, lover of my harmless and sanguine self.
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por Rafael Sabatini
1,743 miembros
55 reseñas
4
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:51 PM
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- aethercowboy: He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
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por Ronald Sukenick
26 miembros
3
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:51 PM
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- aethercowboy: Psychics can see the color of time it's blue.
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por Carson McCullers
10,716 miembros
243 reseñas
4
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:52 PM
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- aethercowboy: In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.
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por Raymond Federman
112 miembros
1 reseña
3.9
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:52 PM
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- aethercowboy: Once upon a time two or three weeks ago, a rather stubborn and determined middle-aged man decided to record for posterity, exactly as it happened, word by word and step by step, the story of another man for indeed what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal, a somewhat paranoiac fellow unmarried, unattached, and quite irresponsible, who had decided to lock himself in a room a furnished room with a private bath, cooking facilities, a bed, a table, and at least one chair, in New York City, for a year 365 days to be precise, to write the story of another person—a shy young man about of 19 years old—who, after the war the Second World War, had come to America the land of opportunities from France under the sponsorship of his uncle—a journalist, fluent in five languages—who himself had come to America from Europe Poland it seems, though this was not clearly established sometime during the war after a series of rather gruesome adventures, and who, at the end of the war, wrote to the father his cousin by marriage of the young man whom he considered as a nephew, curious to know if he the father and his family had survived the German occupation, and indeed was deeply saddened to learn, in a letter from the young man—a long and touching letter written in English, not by the young man, however, who did not know a damn word of English, but by a good friend of his who had studied English in school—that his parents both his father and mother and his two sisters one older and the other younger than he had been deported they were Jewish to a German concentration camp Auschwitz probably and never returned, no doubt having been exterminated deliberately X * X * X * X, and that, therefore, the young man who was now an orphan, a displaced person, who, during the war, had managed to escape deportation by working very hard on a farm in Southern France, would be happy and grateful to be given the opportunity to come to America that great country he had heard so much about and yet knew so little about to start a new life, possibly go to school, learn a trade, and become a good, loyal citizen.
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por Margaret Atwood
9,110 miembros
163 reseñas
3.9
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
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- aethercowboy: Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space
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por Virginia Woolf
10,601 miembros
174 reseñas
3.9
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
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- aethercowboy: He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
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por David Lodge
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36 reseñas
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:54 PM
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- aethercowboy: High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.
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por Jean Rhys
8,454 miembros
254 reseñas
½ 3.5
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Puntuacion 5.25
Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:54 PM
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- aethercowboy: They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
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por Stephen Crane
11,143 miembros
128 reseñas
½ 3.4
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Añadido 2022-06-15, 01:55 PM
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- aethercowboy: The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.