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Subject: the best first phrase in a book

Posted by: diade68
Date: Oct 10 12

what first words in a book made you stick whith it to the end?

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"A screaming comes across the sky"

"Call me Ishmael"

Reply #21. Feb 05 15, 3:15 PM
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It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. (A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens).

Reply #22. Jul 21 15, 8:50 AM
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." The opening line to Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
It's also one of my favourite films, and when I was in Vienna a few years ago I saw a musical based on the novel, which was also great.

Reply #23. Jul 25 15, 6:52 PM
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It was love at first sight.
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

Catch-22 ~~~ Joseph Heller

Reply #24. Feb 21 17, 9:11 PM
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" A spectre is haunting Europe"

Reply #25. Feb 22 17, 10:21 PM
hekawi


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"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head."

~~A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Reply #26. Feb 23 17, 8:24 PM


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