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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#406  Postby pi_r_round » 27 Jul 2012, 21:50

"There once was a man from Nantuckett." First sentence of "There once was a man from Nantuckett."

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"Realizing he had left his cell phone at the flat of his current "other woman," WC, a British Plumbing Salesman,
hoped he hadn't left it in the same place his Personal Plumbing had spent most of the night." from "The Loo's
My Beat: The Confessions of A Randy Plumbing Salesman"
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#407  Postby Stardust0262 » 30 Jul 2012, 05:51

It was said around the valley that the two Durance girls went off but just the one bothered to come back.

The Daughters of Mars - Tom Keneally

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It was said around the valley that the two Durance girls went off but just the one bothered to come back.

The Daughters of Mars - Tom Keneally
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#408  Postby primrose777 » 30 Jul 2012, 06:04

I didnt ask to be a celebrity. Lost ina Good Book, by Jasper Fforde.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston.
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#409  Postby Gannon » 31 Jul 2012, 17:53

"We're going to a wedding not a battle."

Daughters of Rome - Kate Quinn
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#410  Postby GenThomas » 31 Jul 2012, 18:35

"You've been here before."
'Needful Things'
Stephen King
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#411  Postby Carla Hurst-Chandler » 02 Aug 2012, 06:15

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#412  Postby Gannon » 02 Aug 2012, 23:25

"When I was thirteen, an astrologer told me I'd lead a legion someday, a legion that would call me Vercingetorix the Red. "

Empress of Rome - Kate Quinn
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#413  Postby GenThomas » 03 Aug 2012, 06:55

Oooh I like tht one ^
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#414  Postby Fran » 03 Aug 2012, 10:06

"Erik Maria Bark is yanked reluctantly from his dream when the telephone rings".
............. The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#415  Postby tdeblase94 » 03 Aug 2012, 17:50

It was the summer that men first walked on the moon.
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#416  Postby Gannon » 05 Aug 2012, 20:42

"The boy crept stealthily through the low bushes, eyes darting right and left for any sign of the enemy."

Caligula -- Douglas Jackson.
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#417  Postby Carla Hurst-Chandler » 06 Aug 2012, 20:11

I have had a strange, almost unreal life, now that I look back on its history.

Dali Lama- My Son
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#418  Postby Fran » 07 Aug 2012, 06:17

Everything was plastic in the beer garden.......... Solace by Belinda McKeon
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#419  Postby eris42 » 08 Aug 2012, 14:46

My Name is Lily. - Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#420  Postby Gannon » 09 Aug 2012, 04:00

"The fountain was not working"

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