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21st August 2017, 08:45 AM
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 Fave opening lines of books
So what are your favourite opening lines to any books (fiction or non-fiction doesn't matter). One of my faves is from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
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21st August 2017, 09:39 AM
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| "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York." Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (1963)  nosferatu42 and bleakshaun like this.
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21st August 2017, 09:47 AM
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
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21st August 2017, 09:49 AM
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21st August 2017, 01:56 PM
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Trainspotting " The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling."135836.jpg Sent from my MediaPad T1 8.0 Pro using Tapatalk
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21st August 2017, 02:02 PM
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My local The Works shop has both Trainspotting books on sale cheap at the minute, I had a quick look at them the other day and realised I'd struggle to read them because of the Scottish prose  Tolkien is easier to understand
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21st August 2017, 02:04 PM
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21st August 2017, 02:06 PM
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I don't understand why they've never been translated into English Prince_Vajda and bleakshaun like this.
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21st August 2017, 02:08 PM
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21st August 2017, 03:34 PM
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"Later, as he sat on the balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the past 3 months" JG Ballard 'High-Rise'. Justin101 and bleakshaun like this.
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