Books With Our Favorite First Lines
- Descripción
- First impressions are powerful, and the first lines of the books we read can pack quite a punch. Our List of the Month this June is devoted to the books with our favorite first lines. Each participant may vote on ten titles. Please do not downvote titles, as judgment in these matters is subjective.
1
por Jane Austen
80,623 miembros
1,369 reseñas
½ 4.4
Puntuacion 85.94
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:36 PM
- 25 Members
- rosalita, anglemark, LadyUndomiel, magnetgrrl, mldg, dewasus1, lizzy50usa, saskia17, amanda4242, merrystar, victoriapeak, sturlington, kleh, susanbooks, michigantrumpet, ahef1963, AbigailAdams26, barefootsong, asiralh, Boand, steller0707, teesamai, loulourevisited, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Explicaciones
- amanda4242: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
2
por J. R. R. Tolkien
94,367 miembros
1,189 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 61.76
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:30 PM
- 19 Members
- scampus, LadyUndomiel, kleo, yoyogod, abbottthomas, dewasus1, sharder, amanda4242, masterdeski, merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963, flying_monkeys, timetunnel, msjudy, msemmag, barefootsong, mirryi, PeanutNoir
- Explicaciones
- amanda4242: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
3
20,723 miembros
612 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 54.36
Añadido 2023-06-06, 05:26 PM
- 17 Members
- rosalita, Cecilturtle, magnetgrrl, dewasus1, sturlington, kleh, perennialreader, Porua, souloftherose, tina1969, ahef1963, msemmag, Boand, steller0707, HH_Library, loulourevisited, PeanutNoir
- Explicaciones
- rosalita: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"
4
por Charles Dickens
36,655 miembros
456 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 52.16
Añadido 2023-06-08, 06:04 AM
- 17 Members
- LadyUndomiel, paradoxosalpha, lahochstetler, dewasus1, PitcherBooks, merrystar, kleh, perennialreader, Tess_W, Boand, CharlesTheB, TMCTX, Tosta, HH_Library, loulourevisited, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Explicaciones
- paradoxosalpha: 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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
5
- 16 Members
- lorax, Cecilturtle, paradoxosalpha, kleo, sturlington, souloftherose, susanbooks, katemcangus, al.vick, ahef1963, AntonioGallo, asiralh, steller0707, CharlesTheB, tekitora, PureChaos
- Explicaciones
- al.vick: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."AntonioGallo: Phrases such as "Big Brother is watching you" and "doublethink" have entered the lexicon and are often used to describe similar situations in modern times.
6
por Douglas Adams
38,787 miembros
720 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 47.68
Añadido 2023-06-07, 09:12 AM
- 16 Members
- LadyUndomiel, paradoxosalpha, yoyogod, abbottthomas, elenchus, Porua, al.vick, ahef1963, kristilabrie, timetunnel, SandraArdnas, asiralh, steller0707, DoomLuz, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Explicaciones
- al.vick: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
7
por C. S. Lewis
25,396 miembros
258 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 45.13
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:44 PM
- 16 Members
- scampus, LadyUndomiel, sharder, lizzy50usa, saskia17, amanda4242, masterdeski, merrystar, sturlington, EMS_24, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, asiralh, steller0707, slimikin
- Explicaciones
- ManWithAnAgenda: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it
8
por Charles Dickens
24,689 miembros
525 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 42.09
Añadido 2023-06-07, 03:15 PM
- 13 Members
- hipdeep, anglemark, magnetgrrl, masterdeski, merrystar, dougb56586, souloftherose, Debashis.book, barefootsong, Boand, steller0707, HH_Library, slimikin
- Explicaciones
- merrystar: "Marley was dead, to begin with."
9
por Ray Bradbury
53,920 miembros
998 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 40.64
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:07 PM
- 14 Members
- rosalita, Cecilturtle, LadyUndomiel, magnetgrrl, sturlington, RBeffa, katemcangus, Tess_W, barefootsong, steller0707, DoomLuz, slimikin, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Explicaciones
- rosalita: "IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN."
10
por Leo Tolstoy
38,467 miembros
628 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 37.72
Añadido 2023-06-06, 02:53 PM
- 13 Members
- Cecilturtle, LadyUndomiel, lahochstetler, dewasus1, saskia17, Cecrow, PitcherBooks, kleh, perennialreader, katemcangus, Tess_W, CharlesTheB, HH_Library
- Explicaciones
- perennialreader: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
11
por Dodie Smith
9,202 miembros
294 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 33.85
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:43 PM
- 12 Members
- dewasus1, lizzy50usa, saskia17, merrystar, EMS_24, perennialreader, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, HH_Library, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Explicaciones
- ManWithAnAgenda: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
12
- 12 Members
- anglemark, pitjrw, abbottthomas, dewasus1, elenchus, victoriapeak, kleh, RBeffa, susanbooks, Boand, steller0707, loulourevisited
- Explicaciones
- susanbooks: The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
13
por Shirley Jackson
9,747 miembros
432 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 29.65
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:41 PM
- 10 Members
- rosalita, pitjrw, sturlington, Porua, ahef1963, msemmag, ManWithAnAgenda, asiralh, steller0707, DoomLuz
- Explicaciones
- ManWithAnAgenda: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
14
por William Gibson
23,058 miembros
379 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 29.23
Añadido 2023-06-07, 12:03 PM
- 9 Members
- hipdeep, kleo, GuyMontag, Cecrow, elenchus, souloftherose, vwinsloe, timetunnel, Mguod
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
15
por Karl Marx
15,090 miembros
137 reseñas
½ 3.5
Puntuacion 23.07
Añadido 2023-06-07, 11:55 AM
- 8 Members
- paradoxosalpha, pitjrw, elenchus, kleh, susanbooks, ahef1963, elahrairah, PureChaos
- Explicaciones
- susanbooks: A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.
16
39,401 miembros
960 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 22.57
Añadido 2023-06-06, 11:07 PM
- 8 Members
- Aquila, Cecilturtle, LadyUndomiel, dewasus1, masterdeski, TMCTX, Tosta, PureChaos
- Explicaciones
- Aquila: "It was a dark and stormy night."
17
- 7 Members
- scampus, dewasus1, saskia17, Tess_W, al.vick, AbigailAdams26, barefootsong
- Explicaciones
- AbigailAdams26: “All children, except one, grow up."
18
44,408 miembros
695 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 20.18
Añadido 2023-06-07, 12:04 PM
- 6 Members
- lorax, pitjrw, kleo, perennialreader, SandraArdnas, CharlesTheB
- Explicaciones
- SandraArdnas: 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. (...) The world was so recent that many things lacked names
19
por Dante Alighieri
23,904 miembros
212 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 17.5
Añadido 2023-06-07, 10:54 AM
- 6 Members
- paradoxosalpha, magnetgrrl, elenchus, AntonioGallo, barefootsong, slimikin
- Explicaciones
- paradoxosalpha: When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.AntonioGallo: I prefer "Inferno" since it is known for its exploration of moral and ethical issues. Dante uses the sins and punishments of the various characters to comment on the nature of sin, justice, and divine retribution. This gives the book a timeless quality that continues to resonate with readers today. Life, sometimes, is just like Inferno
20
por Sylvia Plath
28,086 miembros
502 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 16.23
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:42 PM
- 6 Members
- lahochstetler, susanbooks, msemmag, ManWithAnAgenda, Tosta, HH_Library
- Explicaciones
- ManWithAnAgenda: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
21
por Martha Wells
5,494 miembros
343 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 16.09
Añadido 2023-06-06, 11:25 PM
- 5 Members
- lizzy50usa, souloftherose, asiralh, Tosta, slimikin
- Explicaciones
- souloftherose: "I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module..."
22
- 5 Members
- lahochstetler, sturlington, msemmag, teesamai, jsclar
- Explicaciones
- sturlington: The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
23
por Erin Morgenstern
18,432 miembros
1,264 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 14.69
Añadido 2023-06-09, 08:10 PM
- 5 Members
- saskia17, flying_monkeys, msjudy, Tosta, HH_Library
- Explicaciones
- saskia17: The circus arrives without warning.
24
por Kurt Vonnegut
44,008 miembros
705 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 14.54
Añadido 2023-06-07, 12:13 PM
- 5 Members
- rosalita, elenchus, ahef1963, SandraArdnas, Tosta
- Explicaciones
- SandraArdnas: All this happened, more or less.
25
por Diana Gabaldon
23,782 miembros
986 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 14.27
Añadido 2023-06-07, 09:17 AM
- 5 Members
- chin2chin, masterdeski, Tess_W, al.vick, HH_Library
- Explicaciones
- al.vick: Prologue: "People disappear all the time."
26
por E. B. White
36,123 miembros
1,023 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 14.1
Añadido 2023-06-07, 09:17 AM
- 5 Members
- Cecilturtle, lahochstetler, elenchus, rodwms, PureChaos
27
por Herman Melville
35,555 miembros
541 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 13.81
Añadido 2023-06-07, 12:03 PM
- 5 Members
- Cecrow, CharlesTheB, Tosta, HH_Library, loulourevisited
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow: "Call me Ishmael."
28
por William Goldman
24,836 miembros
530 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 13.72
Añadido 2023-06-07, 01:20 AM
29
por Italo Calvino
12,518 miembros
258 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 13.02
Añadido 2023-06-16, 02:59 AM
- 4 Members
- anglemark, msemmag, CharlesTheB, kay.emme
- Explicaciones
- anglemark: "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, 'If on a winter's night a traveler'."
30
por Andy Weir
18,150 miembros
1,241 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 11.86
Añadido 2023-06-07, 09:44 AM
- 4 Members
- al.vick, timetunnel, HH_Library, PatrickBenner
- Explicaciones
- al.vick: "I'm pretty much fucked."
31
por Isak Dinesen
5,225 miembros
99 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 11.58
Añadido 2023-06-06, 05:02 PM
- 4 Members
- otori, kleh, perennialreader, loulourevisited
- Explicaciones
- otori: “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”perennialreader: I had a Farm in Africa.
32
por Henry James
10,821 miembros
125 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 11.06
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:42 PM
- 4 Members
- PitcherBooks, EMS_24, ManWithAnAgenda, Boand
- Explicaciones
- ManWithAnAgenda: Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
33
por Jane Austen
21,619 miembros
419 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 10.43
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:36 PM
- 4 Members
- amanda4242, susanbooks, barefootsong, slimikin
- Explicaciones
- amanda4242: "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine."
34
por Stephen King
22,761 miembros
493 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 10.19
Añadido 2023-06-08, 04:07 AM
- 3 Members
- scampus, ianreads, sturlington
- Explicaciones
- sturlington: The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.
35
por H. P. Lovecraft
478 miembros
12 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 9.94
Añadido 2023-06-08, 12:11 AM
- 4 Members
- paradoxosalpha, magnetgrrl, yoyogod, elenchus
- Explicaciones
- yoyogod: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
36
por Tamsyn Muir
4,462 miembros
180 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 9.67
Añadido 2023-06-06, 11:02 PM
37
por A. A. Milne
13,452 miembros
207 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 9.67
Añadido 2023-06-07, 11:41 AM
- 4 Members
- scampus, elenchus, susanbooks, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- susanbooks: Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
38
15,963 miembros
384 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 9.4
Añadido 2023-06-06, 10:55 PM
39
- 3 Members
- anglemark, sharder, loulourevisited
- Explicaciones
- anglemark: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος / οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε
40
por Philip Pullman
36,202 miembros
742 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 9.23
Añadido 2023-06-19, 06:43 AM
- 3 Members
- sharder, barefootsong, Mark.Milton
- Explicaciones
- barefootsong: "Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
41
42
por Albert Camus
35,529 miembros
507 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 8.71
Añadido 2023-06-14, 01:52 PM
- 3 Members
- Cecilturtle, Boand, CharlesTheB
- Explicaciones
- Cecilturtle: Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
43
por Marcel Proust
11,134 miembros
183 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 8.17
Añadido 2023-06-07, 11:35 AM
- 3 Members
- Cecilturtle, kleh, susanbooks
- Explicaciones
- susanbooks: For a long time I used to go to bed early.
44
por Sarah Waters
5,097 miembros
147 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 7.99
Añadido 2023-06-09, 02:46 PM
- 3 Members
- anglemark, kristilabrie, msemmag
- Explicaciones
- kristilabrie: "Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster?"
45
por Jon Stone
5,157 miembros
105 reseñas
½ 4.5
Puntuacion 7.84
Añadido 2023-06-15, 11:29 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, EerierIdyllMeme, lahochstetler
- Explicaciones
- EerierIdyllMeme: On the copyright page: "This is a very dull page. What is on the next page?"
46
por Terry Pratchett
11,297 miembros
157 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 7.69
Añadido 2023-06-09, 08:08 PM
- 3 Members
- saskia17, PitcherBooks, merrystar
- Explicaciones
- saskia17: Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree.
47
por Tom Robbins
5,777 miembros
75 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 7.04
Añadido 2023-06-07, 08:10 AM
- 2 Members
- vwinsloe, SandraArdnas
- Explicaciones
- vwinsloe: "If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done."
48
por Norton Juster
17,452 miembros
425 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 6.75
Añadido 2023-06-12, 06:16 PM
- 3 Members
- merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- sturlington: There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always.
49
por P. L. Travers
6,362 miembros
163 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 6.56
Añadido 2023-06-08, 12:19 AM
50
- 2 Members
- SavvyScot, amanda4242
- Explicaciones
- amanda4242: "to wound the autumnal city."
51
19,122 miembros
346 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 6.46
Añadido 2023-06-09, 08:09 PM
52
por Charles Dickens
20,674 miembros
276 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 6.4
Añadido 2023-06-19, 09:45 PM
- 2 Members
- msjudy, PeanutNoir
- Explicaciones
- PeanutNoir: "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."
53
por Isak Dinesen
2,110 miembros
22 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 6.4
Añadido 2023-06-14, 08:39 PM
- 2 Members
- victoriapeak, RBeffa
- Explicaciones
- RBeffa: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
54
1,264 miembros
82 reseñas
½ 3.5
Puntuacion 6.38
Añadido 2023-06-08, 05:51 PM
- 2 Members
- LadyUndomiel, asiralh
- Explicaciones
- asiralh: “Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken, rather nice-looking young gentleman by the name of Enrico Fermi was born into a family so overprotective that he felt compelled to invent the atomic bomb.”
55
por H. G. Wells
18,399 miembros
309 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 6.25
Añadido 2023-06-11, 02:14 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, fvenez
- Explicaciones
- hipdeep: No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were being scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
56
por Raymond Chandler
10,289 miembros
284 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 6.04
Añadido 2023-06-07, 01:56 PM
- 2 Members
- rosalita, abbottthomas
- Explicaciones
- abbottthomas: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
57
- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, SandraArdnas
- Explicaciones
- paradoxosalpha: There were angels in the glass, two four six many of them, each one shuffling into his place in line like an alderman at the Lord Mayor's show.
58
por Emily Brontë
51,981 miembros
704 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 5.92
Añadido 2023-06-06, 05:27 PM
59
por Ford Madox Ford
4,786 miembros
114 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 5.87
Añadido 2023-06-11, 02:04 PM
60
61
62
2,361 miembros
35 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 5.42
Añadido 2023-06-20, 05:31 PM
63
por Rose Macaulay
1,261 miembros
37 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 5.35
Añadido 2023-06-06, 05:03 PM
- 2 Members
- pitjrw, perennialreader
- Explicaciones
- perennialreader: Take my camel, dear, said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
64
por Graham Greene
6,522 miembros
171 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 5.29
Añadido 2023-06-06, 02:58 PM
- 2 Members
- rosalita, katemcangus
- Explicaciones
- rosalita: "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."
65
por James Joyce
21,210 miembros
217 reseñas
½ 3.7
Puntuacion 5.21
Añadido 2023-06-07, 12:06 PM
- 2 Members
- Cecrow, CharlesTheB
- Explicaciones
- Cecrow: "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 down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."
66
por Harper Lee
78,466 miembros
1,433 reseñas
½ 4.4
Puntuacion 5.13
Añadido 2023-06-06, 05:13 PM
- 2 Members
- kleo, perennialreader
- Explicaciones
- perennialreader: When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
67
30,520 miembros
449 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 5.02
Añadido 2023-06-14, 12:27 PM
- 2 Members
- CharlesTheB, loulourevisited
68
por Chuck Palahniuk
19,334 miembros
326 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 5.02
Añadido 2023-06-07, 11:34 AM
- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, elenchus
- Explicaciones
- paradoxosalpha: Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
69
por Douglas Adams
4,120 miembros
83 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 5.02
Añadido 2023-06-07, 09:13 AM
- 2 Members
- al.vick, SandraArdnas
- Explicaciones
- al.vick: "This isn't at all what I expected. In 1985, by some sort of journalistic accident I was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine to look for an almost extinct form of lemur called the aye-aye. None of the three of us had ever met before. I had never met Mark, Mark had never met me, and no one, apparently, had seen an aye-aye in years."
70
- 2 Members
- EerierIdyllMeme, CharlesTheB
- Explicaciones
- EerierIdyllMeme: There once lived, at a series of temporary addresses across the United States of America, a traveling man of Indian origin, advancing years, and retreating mental powers, who, on account of his love for mindless television, had spent far too much of his life in the yellow light of tawdry motel rooms watching an excess of it, and had suffered a peculiar form of brain damage as a result.
71
72
por Anthony Doerr
18,700 miembros
883 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 4.77
Añadido 2023-06-20, 06:06 PM
73
por Bernard Cornwell
4,724 miembros
150 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 4.76
Añadido 2023-06-07, 09:15 AM
74
por Peter S. Beagle
7,530 miembros
191 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 4.63
Añadido 2023-06-09, 08:12 PM
75
- Member
- kristilabrie
- Explicaciones
- kristilabrie: "In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."
76
por Isabel Allende
13,932 miembros
245 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-07-02, 10:57 AM
77
por Pearl S. Buck
13,842 miembros
265 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-06, 03:59 PM
- Member
- Micheller7
- Explicaciones
- Micheller7: “It was Wang Lung’s wedding day.” I have remembered this line for about 65 years.
78
por Evelyn Waugh
12,574 miembros
265 reseñas
4
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-07-22, 08:17 AM
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- dud5ers
79
por Franz Kafka
12,465 miembros
219 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-19, 06:40 AM
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- sharder
80
por Douglas Adams
12,215 miembros
120 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-15, 10:13 PM
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- EerierIdyllMeme
- Explicaciones
- EerierIdyllMeme: It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport".
81
por Thomas Pynchon
10,752 miembros
142 reseñas
4.1
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-06, 05:07 PM
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- paradoxosalpha
- Explicaciones
- paradoxosalpha: A screaming comes across the sky.
82
por V. E. Schwab
7,394 miembros
324 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-19, 02:40 PM
83
por Michel Faber
6,740 miembros
197 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-07, 05:30 AM
84
6,601 miembros
125 reseñas
½ 4.3
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-06, 04:56 PM
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- perennialreader
- Explicaciones
- perennialreader: So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration.
85
por Haruki Murakami
5,978 miembros
97 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-08, 04:52 AM
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por Harlan Coben
3,544 miembros
89 reseñas
3.9
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-18, 10:07 PM
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- LibraryCin
- Explicaciones
- LibraryCin: Three days before her death, my mother told me -- these weren't her last words, but they were pretty lose -- that my brother was still alive.
89
por James M. Cain
3,465 miembros
131 reseñas
½ 3.7
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-19, 09:31 PM
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- PeanutNoir
- Explicaciones
- PeanutNoir: "They threw me off the hay truck about noon."
90
91
por Anthony Burgess
1,792 miembros
39 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-07-23, 11:04 PM
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- exhocforte
- Explicaciones
- exhocforte: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
92
por Daisy Ashford
545 miembros
19 reseñas
3.8
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-07, 01:49 PM
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- abbottthomas
- Explicaciones
- abbottthomas: Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.
93
486 miembros
9 reseñas
4.2
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-22, 10:32 PM
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- barefootsong
- Explicaciones
- barefootsong: "When I was nine years old, I hid under a table and heard my sister kill a king." This first line has stuck with me since I first read this in sixth grade.
94
95
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- AbigailAdams26
- Explicaciones
- AbigailAdams26: Mr. C'Mere's first line: "Humans were diggers and buriers, the cat thought, like dogs." Zoë's first line: "I'd hoped for better, Henry's being a heart doctor. A job like that, you'd think he might actually have a heart."
96
100 miembros
1 reseña
4
Puntuacion 4
Añadido 2023-06-13, 03:30 PM
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- prosfilaes
- Explicaciones
- prosfilaes: 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 housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
97
- Member
- EMS_24
- Explicaciones
- EMS_24: 'Except for the man who thought Sarphatistraat was the most beautiful place in Europe, I have never known a more curious fellow than the 'bummer/ deadbeat/ .'' - "Behalve den man, die de Sarphatistraat de mooiste plek van Europa vond, heb ik nooit een wonderlijker kerel gekend dan den uitvreter."
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99
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- paulmdh
100
- Member
- katemcangus