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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 20:00:19 GMT
"All this happened, more or less." - Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 4:55:42 GMT
It was the best of times, call me Ishmael.
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Post by darknessfish on Nov 30, 2017 10:00:01 GMT
It was the best of times, call me Ishmael. Tale of Two Dicks?
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Post by theravenking on Dec 2, 2017 20:48:34 GMT
"Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley tapped with the corner of a stiff envelope on the edge of her writing desk. It was very seldom that she found difficulty in coming to a decision, but on this occasion she was conscious of doubt and hesitation."
Murder In The Snow aka. Groaning Spinney by Gladys Mitchell
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 4, 2017 7:24:34 GMT
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson.
Prologue first line: "She lay on her back fastened by leather straps to a narrow bed with a steel frame."
Chapter 1 first line: "Lisbeth Salander pulled her sunglasses down to the tip of her nose and squinted from beneath the brim of her sun hat."
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Post by darknessfish on Dec 4, 2017 13:46:02 GMT
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy".
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 5, 2017 2:35:31 GMT
Fiction, Hardly a Man is Now Alive (Herbert Brean, 1952): "That morning, southern New England basked in a warm clear sun unusual for early December." (Speaking of which, we in New England are currently having a warm clear sun unusual for early December.)
Non-fiction, Classics of the Horror Film (re-read, William K. Everson, 1974): "Recently, reading an article about director Ernst Lubitsch, I was surprised to learn that in the mid-20s he knocked off--quickly, casually, and consecutively--five masterpieces."
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Post by klandersen on Dec 6, 2017 22:05:15 GMT
The New Doctor Who Adventures: Human Nature by Paul Cornell
Prologue: 'they seem, in places, to address me so directly it's almost uncomfortable'
Chapter One: Nine weeks later.
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Post by klandersen on Dec 20, 2017 21:11:45 GMT
What my post 14 days ago was the last one? OK I'm on a new book anyway.
Redshirts by John Scalzi Prologue: "From the top of the large boulder he sat on, Ensign Tom Davis looked across the expanse of the cave toward Captain Lucius Abernathy, Science Officer Q'eeng and Chief Engineer Paul West perched on a second, larger boulder, and thought, 'Well, this sucks'."
Chapter One: "Ensign Andrew Dahl looked out the window of Earth Dock, the Universal Union's space station above the planet Earth, and gazed at his next ship."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 21:58:24 GMT
The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset - The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K Chesterton). One of my top 10.
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Post by theravenking on Oct 25, 2023 15:03:00 GMT
From The Witch Of The Low Tide by John Dickson Carr
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Post by theravenking on Apr 10, 2024 10:42:09 GMT
from the short story The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr
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Post by lostinlimbo on Apr 10, 2024 22:50:47 GMT
From ‘Witch Beast’ by Bernard King.
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