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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Inspired by the movie thread

List the opening or closing line of a book for others to guess

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North


"Inspired by the movie thread

List the opening or closing line of a book for others to guess

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" "

The bible?

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

Tale of two city's Charles Dickens ' novel

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Tale of two city's Charles Dickens ' novel"

Correct

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again "

Rebecca

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again

Rebecca"

Yep

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Call me Ishmael

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since"

As if I could you more

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since

As if I could you more"

Gatsby

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Sir, neither you nor I speak English but there are some things that can be said only in English.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading


"Call me Ishmael "

Moby dick

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By *ud and BryanCouple
over a year ago

Boston, Lincolnshire

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

1984

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading


"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since

As if I could you more

Gatsby "

Yes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ours is essentially a tragic age so we refuse to take it tragically.

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By *erverseintentionsMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

First paragraph I ever read . Most inspirational book iv ever read too ..inspired me to read everything I could get my hands on .

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Call me Ishmael

Moby dick"

Si! Es correcto

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

"After all tomorrow is another day"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not sure if this counts but

‘If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it…’

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

The day was flat. That morning his mind had abandoned him and left his body wandering down below.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It was a nice day. All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn't been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one.

OK technically 4 lines, but it's still the opening and no-one would get it from the first line.

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol


"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

1984

"

Correct Granny

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"It was a nice day. All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn't been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one.

OK technically 4 lines, but it's still the opening and no-one would get it from the first line."

Good omens

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with "

Wuthering Heights!

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By *heMightySpud69Man
over a year ago

Milton keynes

Far Out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


""After all tomorrow is another day" "

Gone with The Wind

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own


"Far Out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

H2G2.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"Ours is essentially a tragic age so we refuse to take it tragically. "

It's DH Lawrence but I can't remember which. The Virgin and the Gypsy?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

“To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black….”

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

This is great! The first line of a book draws you in, or not, these are making me want to read some of these books.

^^ that is not the first line of a book

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"“To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black….” "

Under Milk Wood

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"“To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black….”

Under Milk Wood "

Yep.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ours is essentially a tragic age so we refuse to take it tragically.

It's DH Lawrence but I can't remember which. The Virgin and the Gypsy?"

Impressive!! It is DH Lawrence but not that one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"This is great! The first line of a book draws you in, or not, these are making me want to read some of these books.

^^ that is not the first line of a book "

Think it is.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

I know far more first lines than last lines, and one of the few last lines I don't need to Google is:

"A last note from your narrator. I am haunted by humans"

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By *dalisqueWoman
over a year ago

land of make believe

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

Love in the Time of Cholera?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I know far more first lines than last lines, and one of the few last lines I don't need to Google is:

"A last note from your narrator. I am haunted by humans""

The Book Thief

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol


"Ours is essentially a tragic age so we refuse to take it tragically.

It's DH Lawrence but I can't remember which. The Virgin and the Gypsy?

Impressive!! It is DH Lawrence but not that one. "

LADY CHATTERLEYS LOVER

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"I know far more first lines than last lines, and one of the few last lines I don't need to Google is:

"A last note from your narrator. I am haunted by humans"

The Book Thief"

It is!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ours is essentially a tragic age so we refuse to take it tragically.

It's DH Lawrence but I can't remember which. The Virgin and the Gypsy?

Impressive!! It is DH Lawrence but not that one.

LADY CHATTERLEYS LOVER "

Si! Correcto!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I know far more first lines than last lines, and one of the few last lines I don't need to Google is:

"A last note from your narrator. I am haunted by humans"

The Book Thief

It is! "

It made an impact on me too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood."

The Gruffalo

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By *dalisqueWoman
over a year ago

land of make believe


"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Love in the Time of Cholera?"

Yes!

My favourite book

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

When shall we three meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When shall we three meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain. "

"Well I can make next Tuesday..." - probably not the book you were thinking of, but...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Now consider the tortoise and the eagle.

The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about as good a turn of speed as you need to hunt down a lettuce. It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to eat.

And then there is the eagle. A creature of the air and high places, whose horizons go all the way to the edge of the world. Eyesight keen enough to spot the rustle of some small and squeaky creature half a mile away. All power, all control. Lightning death on wings.Talons and claws enough to make a meal of anything smaller than it is and at least take a hurried snack out of anything bigger.

And yet the eagle will sit for hours on the crag and survey the kingdoms of the world until it spots a distant movement and then it will focus, focus, focus on the small shell wobbling among the bushes down there on the desert. And it will leap…

And a minute later the tortoise finds the world dropping away from it. And it sees the world for the first time, no longer one inch from the ground but five hundred feet above it, and it thinks; what a great friend I have in the eagle.

And then the eagle lets go.

And almost always the tortoise plunges to its death. Everyone knows why the tortoise does this. Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. No one knows why the eagle does this. There’s good eating on a tortoise but, considering the effort involved, there’s much better eating on practically anything else. It’s simply the delight of eagles to torment tortoises.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Somewhere a clock strikes midnight and there's a full moon in the sky .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Somewhere a clock strikes midnight and there's a full moon in the sky . "

Oh sorry , wrong thread ..my apologies.

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton


"Now consider the tortoise and the eagle.

The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about as good a turn of speed as you need to hunt down a lettuce. It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to eat.

And then there is the eagle. A creature of the air and high places, whose horizons go all the way to the edge of the world. Eyesight keen enough to spot the rustle of some small and squeaky creature half a mile away. All power, all control. Lightning death on wings.Talons and claws enough to make a meal of anything smaller than it is and at least take a hurried snack out of anything bigger.

And yet the eagle will sit for hours on the crag and survey the kingdoms of the world until it spots a distant movement and then it will focus, focus, focus on the small shell wobbling among the bushes down there on the desert. And it will leap…

And a minute later the tortoise finds the world dropping away from it. And it sees the world for the first time, no longer one inch from the ground but five hundred feet above it, and it thinks; what a great friend I have in the eagle.

And then the eagle lets go.

And almost always the tortoise plunges to its death. Everyone knows why the tortoise does this. Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. No one knows why the eagle does this. There’s good eating on a tortoise but, considering the effort involved, there’s much better eating on practically anything else. It’s simply the delight of eagles to torment tortoises.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly."

Small Gods

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"When shall we three meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain. "

When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won.

Macbeth.

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By *igJFromSAMan
over a year ago

Woking


"Now consider the tortoise and the eagle.

The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about as good a turn of speed as you need to hunt down a lettuce. It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to eat.

And then there is the eagle. A creature of the air and high places, whose horizons go all the way to the edge of the world. Eyesight keen enough to spot the rustle of some small and squeaky creature half a mile away. All power, all control. Lightning death on wings.Talons and claws enough to make a meal of anything smaller than it is and at least take a hurried snack out of anything bigger.

And yet the eagle will sit for hours on the crag and survey the kingdoms of the world until it spots a distant movement and then it will focus, focus, focus on the small shell wobbling among the bushes down there on the desert. And it will leap…

And a minute later the tortoise finds the world dropping away from it. And it sees the world for the first time, no longer one inch from the ground but five hundred feet above it, and it thinks; what a great friend I have in the eagle.

And then the eagle lets go.

And almost always the tortoise plunges to its death. Everyone knows why the tortoise does this. Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. No one knows why the eagle does this. There’s good eating on a tortoise but, considering the effort involved, there’s much better eating on practically anything else. It’s simply the delight of eagles to torment tortoises.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly."

Think you've gone for more than the opening line of Small God's there

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"When shall we three meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain.

"Well I can make next Tuesday..." - probably not the book you were thinking of, but..."

Wyrd Sisters

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"When shall we three meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain.

When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won.

Macbeth."

Correct. Can't beat the bard

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff


"Call me Ishmael

Moby dick

Si! Es correcto"

--The first line of Moby-Dick; or The Whale is, "The pale Usher - threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now." Whatever anyone else tells you, that's the first part and the first line of the book.--

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"High on a rocky promontory, sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse"

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Why ask for closing lines of movies?

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow...

Name that book!

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

"I'd never given much thought to how I would die - though I'd had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this."

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading


"When shall we three meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain. "

Macbeth

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading


"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow...

Name that book! "

To kill a mockingbird

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow...

Name that book! "

To kill a mockingbird

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

You better not never tell nobody but God

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow...

Name that book!

To kill a mockingbird "

Very good... OK.. A bit more or a challenge...

All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow...

Name that book!

To kill a mockingbird

Very good... OK.. A bit more or a challenge...

All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way "

Anna Karenina, a favourite of mine!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The end

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"You better not never tell nobody but God "

The Color Purple

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


""High on a rocky promontory, sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse""

I've read this very recently. Is it Dirk Gently?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

You don't know about me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you went too near the edge of the chalk-pit the ground would give way. Barney had been told this often enough."

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


""If you went too near the edge of the chalk-pit the ground would give way. Barney had been told this often enough.""

Stig of the Dump.

Total flashback as I read that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


""If you went too near the edge of the chalk-pit the ground would give way. Barney had been told this often enough."

Stig of the Dump.

Total flashback as I read that!"

Yeah, that and Under Milk Wood were the only books I remembered from my school days.

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

So nobody guessed my book which is a shame as it won a few awards and is a very good read.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The day was flat. That morning his mind had abandoned him and left his body wandering down below."

Shuggie Bain

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish


"The day was flat. That morning his mind had abandoned him and left his body wandering down below.

Shuggie Bain"

Correct.x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Looks like I have some reading up do

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

You have no rights ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not sure if this counts but

‘If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it…’"

I can quote this speech

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Not sure if this counts but

‘If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it…’

I can quote this speech "

The upstart crow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

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By *ickymac52Man
over a year ago

newry


" “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”"

Pride and prejudice, too easy, wife has me brainwashed watching bloody Colin firth in it.

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By *untocum1000TV/TS
over a year ago

newmarket

Best end line ever......"hang on lads , ive got a idea "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It was a pleasure to burn

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton


""I'd never given much thought to how I would die - though I'd had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.""

I see no-one's guessed this modern day classic yet. No-one going to admit they've read it?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Best end line ever......"hang on lads , ive got a idea ""

Fun line though that's a movie rather than book

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By *dalisqueWoman
over a year ago

land of make believe


" “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Pride and prejudice, too easy, wife has me brainwashed watching bloody Colin firth in it."

It's that rather than the book why most people know lol

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"It was a pleasure to burn"

Fahrenheit 451

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses "

Silas Market. One of the least favourite books I read at school!

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses

Silas Market. One of the least favourite books I read at school!"

Marner. Bloody autocorrect!

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By *athyperkinsCouple
over a year ago

lifton

It was the day my grandmother exploded

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"It was the day my grandmother exploded"

The Crow Road. Brilliant opening line!

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By *ola xWoman
over a year ago

Oswestry Shropshire

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading up to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred by a padlock and chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge keeper and had no answer. And peering closer through the spokes of the gate I saw the lodge was empty.

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By *ola xWoman
over a year ago

Oswestry Shropshire


"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again "

Rebecca Daphne de Maurier.

One of my favourite novels

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Last line and first line:

a way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay

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By *athyperkinsCouple
over a year ago

lifton


"It was the day my grandmother exploded

The Crow Road. Brilliant opening line!"

The best!

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Another last line and first line:

beyond holland into the hills, I have come to / to wound the autumnal city. So howled out for the world to give him a name.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

A few miles south of Soledad the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London


"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents "

The Grinch?

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By *yronMan
over a year ago

grangemouth

'In the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona, the day before I joined the Militia, I saw an Italian Militiaman standing in front of the the Officers' table.

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By *yronMan
over a year ago

grangemouth

'I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house.'

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By *yronMan
over a year ago

grangemouth


"I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with "

Wuthering Heights.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents

The Grinch?"

Fraid not

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By *dalisqueWoman
over a year ago

land of make believe


"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents

The Grinch?

Fraid not "

It's Little women.

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By *dalisqueWoman
over a year ago

land of make believe


"I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with

Wuthering Heights."

Best line from the book

If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.

That is all I want !!

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By *yronMan
over a year ago

grangemouth


"I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with

Wuthering Heights.

Best line from the book

If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.

That is all I want !! "

Me and all.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents

The Grinch?

Fraid not

It's Little women. "

Well done

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London


"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents

The Grinch?

Fraid not

It's Little women.

Well done "

I've read that, and a lot of the other books on this thread, but can't remember the opening sentences.

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By *Cocksucker84Man
over a year ago

newcastle


"A few miles south of Soledad the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

Steinbeck- Of Mice and Men (I think)

'We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.'

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By *Cocksucker84Man
over a year ago

newcastle

'From a little after two-o-clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that.'

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By *elinefineWoman
over a year ago

kempston

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

Opening line to one of my favourite books that introduced me to the author…

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"A few miles south of Soledad the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.

Steinbeck- Of Mice and Men (I think)

'We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.'"

Handmaids Tale

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

Opening line to one of my favourite books that introduced me to the author…"

Crow Road

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"'I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house.'"

Can't answer unless I want to put myself on the naughty step!

Robert Louis Stevenson though.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"Last line and first line:

a way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay"

Finnegans Wake?

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

"Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months."

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol


""Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.""

High Rise?

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool


""Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months."

High Rise?"

Quintessentially Ballardian

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


""Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months."

High Rise?

Quintessentially Ballardian "

I've never heard of it, but that's a hell of a first line!

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

"She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life."

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool


""Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months."

High Rise?

Quintessentially Ballardian

I've never heard of it, but that's a hell of a first line!"

Ballard's ideas are sometimes better than his writing but that one is hard to beat.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport


"Last line and first line:

a way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay

Finnegans Wake?"

Yes. And yes I have read it... Well the last paragraph and the first paragraph. One day I'll manage to penetrate to page two or three.

No takers for my other book? Which has a similar circular pattern of end leading back to beginning, but is a damn sight easier than Finnegan's Wake - possibly more at the level of Ullyses.

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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago

East of Eden, West of Hell


"I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic."

Frankenstein

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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago

East of Eden, West of Hell

The terror that would not end for another 28 years, if it ever did, began so far as I can know or tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

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By *osie xoWoman
over a year ago

Market Weighton


"The terror that would not end for another 28 years, if it ever did, began so far as I can know or tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain."

It?

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By *osie xoWoman
over a year ago

Market Weighton

It was seven minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. Its eyes were closed.

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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago

East of Eden, West of Hell


"The terror that would not end for another 28 years, if it ever did, began so far as I can know or tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

It? "

It is indeed

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By *avidnsa69Man
over a year ago

Essex


"It was seven minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. Its eyes were closed."

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

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By *torm in a G cupWoman
over a year ago

Land of the Long White Cloud


"A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood."

The Gruffalo.

Finally one I know.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Where's Papa going with that axe? said Fern to her mother as they were settling the table for breakfast

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral


"Where's Papa going with that axe? said Fern to her mother as they were settling the table for breakfast"

Charlotte's Web

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Where's Papa going with that axe? said Fern to her mother as they were settling the table for breakfast

Charlotte's Web"

Well done

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

To the red country and part of the grey country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently and they did not cut the scarred earth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"To the red country and part of the grey country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently and they did not cut the scarred earth "

The Grapes of Wrath

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By *for2Man
over a year ago

Bristol

This is my favourite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'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 ...'

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"This is my favourite book in all the world, though I have never read it."

Princess bride

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Cold curtains of November rain came drifting slowly up the valley like an endless procession of phantom mourners following an invisible hearse. From beneath an overhang of limestone a boy and an old man squatted side by side and gazed disconsolately out across the river to the dripping forest on the far bank.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"'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 ...'

"

Catcher in the rye

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport


"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel"

Is that William Gibson?

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

Once upon a time

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport


"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel

Is that William Gibson? "

It is, Neuromancer X

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