First Line (What's the first line of the book you're currently reading)
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Oct 2018
8:47pm, 22 Oct 2018
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Diogenes
“On a spring morning in 2009, Matthew Lawrence dropped the anchor of his small boat at a random spot in the middle of s blue ocean bay on the east coast of Australia, and jumped over the side.” Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith (non-fiction, for a change for me.) |
Oct 2018
8:48pm, 22 Oct 2018
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Dooogs
"A few words of apology and explanation are called for if this book is to escape even more severe censure than it doubtless deserves." A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell |
Oct 2018
9:03pm, 22 Oct 2018
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Night-owl
(Thanks all was going to blog it but thought make it a thread )
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Oct 2018
9:06pm, 22 Oct 2018
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Diogenes
Ok, I have 4 books on my physical to-read pile, all of which I’ve started before but not finished. If I quote the first line of each we can see which gains the most interest. You might recognise some.
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Oct 2018
9:07pm, 22 Oct 2018
31,048 posts
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Diogenes
“What’s it going to be then, eh?”
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Oct 2018
9:09pm, 22 Oct 2018
31,049 posts
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Diogenes
“At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch’s Ponds.”
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Oct 2018
9:09pm, 22 Oct 2018
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alpenrose
"Hamish MacBeth drove along a rutted single-track road on a fine September day." Death of an Addict by M.C. Beaton |
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Oct 2018
9:10pm, 22 Oct 2018
31,050 posts
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Diogenes
“A small revolution was taking place, so modest and well behaved that almost no one had noticed.”
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Oct 2018
9:12pm, 22 Oct 2018
31,051 posts
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Diogenes
“This May be hard to believe, coming from a black man, but I have never stolen anything.”
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Oct 2018
9:13pm, 22 Oct 2018
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McGoohan
That last one's from The Sellout isn't it? That one started off promisingly but got rather irritating by half way through. Not much happens at all. It's like being shouted at all the tim.
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