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CapableTrash
Oryx and Crake was a weird ass book. I liked it, though
LosPer
"Howard Roarke laughed".
skyhook
Listen, Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
JasonWaterfaIIs
The champagne was flat, so it goes
Wowyouknowwhatsomanyusernamesaretakenthesedays
I've seen this post twice. IT HASN'T LOADED TWICE.
MissHemlocke
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. -Neuromancer By William Gibson
yehaaa6
get the shivers down my spine every time I read this. so goooood. I'm about halfway through Mona Lisa Overdrive for the second time now.
ThatWeirdFriendEveryoneHas
"The building was on fire and it wasn my fault." -Jim Butcher
survivorofdetroit
was looking for a Dresden quote! +1
SaintMaceToTheFace
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.....
PaliQ
Legend fades to myth and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth comes again! Robert Jordan... I need to reread those.
YossariantheBarbarian
30 years ago and I still remember the thrill of anticipation I got from The Hobbit's opening line.
CertifiedTintinologist
"I am seated in an office surrounded by heads and bodies" - INFINITE JEST (David Foster Wallace)
MetaphysicalPotato
Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
MelfsAcidArrow
First line or first lines? Some of these are multiple sentences
dangerbuckley
No Vonnegut?
iceteach
I didn't want to see the book until I read the quote. I wanted to test myself.
oasisamid
So? What's the score?
iceteach
Maybe 13
Erzz
"The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault." Blood Rites
MailleProstitute
Flaming flying monkey poo!
sangheraj
"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault
hotrats
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.
Iaimtomisbehave
"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct." "Dune"(FH)
Furtaus
Oh, Im very happy that something from mrs Jones was included. I fear a picture of my copy of Howls moving castle might break the poor book.
eatchocolate
The Martian: "I’m pretty much fucked. That’s my considered opinion. Fucked."
LittleSith
Best first line of a book EVER.
MattMcC980
Just finished rereading that!
QuietScreaming
Call me Ishmael.
kevinspaceyiskeyzersoze
« Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. » - L'Etranger. Albert Camus.
imjustgoingtokeepchangingthis
Mother died today, Or was it yesterday? I can't be sure. - Camus, The stranger.
Seasonic
« Today, Mom is dead. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. » - L'Etranger( The Stranger). Albert Camus.
FarkasMacTavish
TIL Howl's Moving Castle was a book first. Off to Amazon. O3O
breakfasttimeallthetime
It is significantly different than the movie. The movie was more of an interpretation than a true adaptation. But the book is SO SO good
FarkasMacTavish
From the titles by themselves, I've concluded that they may have mooshed Howl's Moving Castle and The House of Many Ways together for movie.
ayrazar
I've never been angrier about a post not loading. Fuck you, mobile.
JasonWaterfaIIs
Same! Grr
notme222
Boy, this Dickens guy liked to keep his butt covered, didn't he?
AtalanBeardy
Paid by the word.
thedogemperorofmankind
"It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts."
SaintMaceToTheFace
+1
EdemahRuh
A caesura perhaps, a pause between stanzas. There will be music again (I hope).
SillyNarrator
Oh SHIT yes
captainkirk52
I just finished rereading that series and it made me realize how many important details I missed
JPRiddles
I'd be interested to hear what you picked up on the second reading
TheBryanStage
Book?
thedogemperorofmankind
The name of the wind (kingkiller chronicles pt1) by patrick rothfuss
NOW95ThatsWhatICallAUsername
The Colour of Magic trumps all of these
yehaaa6
I'm trying to remember the first line of that book. it's been a while since I read it.
ethanmay4
Absolutely love the beginning of the Great Gatsby. Such a beautiful line.
TwoMinuteJay
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
ladybird2223
I was hoping to see that one.
anfunnii
Go, there are other worlds than these.
TowerJunkie
It's never on these lists. That's ok. We know.
LoudAngryJerk
i know right, HOW is this not on this list?
freebeerandmildwings
Long days and pleasant nights imgur
BirdsBeerandBitches
How fucking amazing is it that Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey are starring in the movie?!
inunicorns
Is that really, actually, not just in rumor happening?
BirdsBeerandBitches
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/29/dark-tower-rises-stephen-king-idris-elba-and-matthew-mcconaughey
thedogemperorofmankind
hella. though I may need subtitles because it can be hard to tell what the noise escaping mcconaughey's larynx is trying to tell us
Gatorjon
Cool! Who are they cast as?
BirdsBeerandBitches
Idris as Roland and McConaughey as Walter
Gatorjon
Really? Seems like they should be reversed. If for nothing more than the Susanna plot line.
YoloSwagginsAndTheKnightsOfTheRoundTable
Yess I was hoping it would be on this list. I can't believe it isn't.
anfunnii
Nnnnnnnnnnng
rhgolf44
The only line I was looking for
Gatorjon
Same here.
SaintMaceToTheFace
Good series.
thedogemperorofmankind
“The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.”
Westly
- Blood Rites, the 6th book in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, and one of my favorite books.
thedogemperorofmankind
Changes is easily in my personal top 3 novels ever. Grave Peril, Blood Rites, Dead Beat, Small Favor, and Skin Game all make the top 20.
thedogemperorofmankind
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Westly
Those are AWESOME.
CertifiedTintinologist
Try FINNIGAN'S WAKE. The book starts mid-sentence, and the other half is at the end of the book, meaning the whole thing is never-ending.
CertifiedTintinologist
Link: https://books.google.com/books?id=CTrT6wh172AC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
liyafae
I skipped the intro just to see if I could understand the beginning, and my brain fried immediately. Noooo thanks.
CertifiedTintinologist
Yeah, James Joyce is impossible for me too.
tentacularfleshscape
So does Dhalgren, by Samuel Delany, absolutely gorgeous book.
YoloSwagginsAndTheKnightsOfTheRoundTable
Spoilers!
CertifiedTintinologist
No spoilers, trust me, nobody can even begin to understand that book. There are literary scholars who debate whether it even has characters.
YoloSwagginsAndTheKnightsOfTheRoundTable
this sounds very interesting