First sentence of current book

[Redlegs]

The fundamental and most stable feature of Russian history is the slow tempo of her development, with the economic backwardness, primitiveness of social forms, and low levels of culture resulting from it.

History of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky

[Zilelabelle]

Appear, dissapear.

I just finished reading Star Trek book of opposites to my son about minute before stumbling over this topic.

[Redlegs]

In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half-hidden by the crag above and the stiff heavy leaves that clustered below.

The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman

[alexolotl_]

It was like an alien had landed.

[GabbiV]

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

[mamalui]

The assignment desk is exactly what it sounds like.

Murder At Broadcast Park by Bill L. Evans.

[Carissa Myung]

"Stop daydreaming," a voice snapped.

[CheyenneR]

You're in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the days before Carnaval.

Murdered by James Schannep

[Jfoust1988]

Not I nor anyone else can travel that road for you. - Wayfarer by Alexander Bracken

[Libs_Books]

I am writing this at the behest of my advocate, Mr Andrew Sinclair, who since my incarceration here in Inverness has treated me with a degree of civility I in no way deserve.

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet

[DesireeRose]

"I don't want to die."
Blood, Nick and Chris Dunker

[KLafser]

The wind shook the house, roaring like a great animal.

Strong Heart by Charlie Sheldon

[mnmueller]

"Moving at the speed of light through the darkness of a vast fiber optic spider web always evoked a hypnotic state of peace."

-Superhighway

[P0tt3ry]

"As soon as I arrive in the village of Beit Zujaaj, I begin to hear the mutters about Abdel Jameela, a strange old man supposedly unconnected to any of the local families."
"Beyond The Pale" edited by Henry Herz

[Redlegs]

Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky