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raspberry331 -> The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/9/2008 12:08:48 PM)

What's the first sentence in the book you're reading?



jazzact13 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/9/2008 12:52:11 PM)

Drizzt Do'Urden crouched in a crevice between a pair of boulders on the side of a mountain, looking down at a curious gathering.



Auben -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/9/2008 6:16:20 PM)

Which book I'm reading?

How about...

"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetary of Forgotten Books for the first time."



henny -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/10/2008 2:09:10 AM)

This thread is a neat idea. I love first sentences.

Mine:

"An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."

That's from "Tom Jones."

I'm only half way through it, but it's hilarious.

And there's a shocking amount of sex and other such immorality in it. It's like a really smart and articulate Farley brothers movie. [:D]

I guess they weren't as prudish in 18th century England as they were in the 19th.



ConstantReader -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/13/2008 4:28:51 PM)

I waited and watched for seven years.

Stephen King, "Dolan's Cadillac"



Anoc -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/13/2008 6:12:36 PM)

I've started to read the series of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels (yes, the same Aubrey and Maturin as in the film "Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World"). They're just fabulous, full of rip-roaring adventure, quirky characters and exotic locations. I'm now reading volume 4, with 16 still to go. The whole epic begins like this:

"The music-room in the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli's C major quartet."



McFatty -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 2:58:36 AM)

"Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his mysterious and tragic death, was a strange type, despicable and vicious and at the same time absurd." - the first sentence from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky



alias007 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 11:36:48 AM)

Superficiality is the curse of our age.

from: Celebration of Discipline- Richard J. Foster



e.barrett -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 11:57:24 AM)

"Psychology is defined as the scientific study of thinking and behavior." - Psychology Applied to Work



crankius -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 12:37:34 PM)

The book I just finished:

Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.



crankius -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 12:41:21 PM)

The book I'm just starting:

Meung, a pretty market town on the Loire and the birthplace of Jean de Meung, author of the Romance of the Rose, was more or less used to disturbances of one sort or another because of the troublous times.



Consecrated2God -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 12:44:15 PM)

What a fun idea for a thread! [:D]

"The last wave of pain seized his chest like a vice grip so that his hand flew to his heart and he gasped for breath."

That's from "Where Yesterday Lives" by Karen Kinsgbury.



WaitingforBoaz -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 1:22:51 PM)

A swift gray November wind had taken every chimney of the house for an organ pipe and was roaring in them all at once.

The Curate's Awakening (formerly Thomas Wingfold, curate)

by George MacDonald



uncabeeil -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 1:54:01 PM)

"They were going to kill Arthur." - from Merlin, by Stephen Lawhead



garsyt -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 7:35:57 PM)

"It's the same every year
100 degrees in the shade
as we trudge back to school,
thinking of the beach
and the long days of swimming
and hanging out,
wearing what we want,
eating when we like,
doing what we like,
and now. . .
Mum even ironed my uniform!"

From this adorable book I picked up at the library today to read with my eldest dd. It's titled Naked Bunyip Dancing and is written by Australian author Steven Herrick. It's a novel written entirely in verse/poem form and very well I might add. Hilarious for the most part - but other parts are absolutely heartbreaking!

Blessings,

Garsy



semperfidelis -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 9:14:53 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: alias007

Superficiality is the curse of our age.

from: Celebration of Discipline- Richard J. Foster


What alias007 said.



butterfly616 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 9:34:25 PM)

"The noises, faint, fleeting, whispered into her consciousness like wraiths in the night."

Brink of Death by Brandilyn Collins



rae_of_light -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 9:37:34 PM)

There is a call--no, a cry--coming from the heart of God and with each passing day its intensity increases: "Why are you satisfied without my presence; why do you remain distant when you could have intimacy with Me?" -From "Drawing Near" by John Bevere. Amazing book, I recommend it to anyone who desires to be nearer to the Lord.



lightbeamrider -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/14/2008 10:25:25 PM)

Have you ever noticed that some things relevant to one generation are completely outmoded and useless to another?

Josh McDowell....A Ready Defense



pilotfish -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/16/2008 7:28:56 PM)

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Holy Bible - ESV



semperfidelis -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/17/2008 11:17:10 AM)

"This book makes no pretence to be anything but a popular sketch of a great historical character who out to be more popular."

G.K. Chesterton, "St. Thomas Aquinas"

Glad he got the purpose of the book out of the way! [:D]



Consecrated2God -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/18/2008 8:14:14 AM)

There's a question that haunts me in the blackest hours of night, when wasted moments crowd my dreams and mock the life I know.

From "Covenant Child" by Terri Blackstock.



rnershigh -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/18/2008 9:51:49 AM)

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.



9drtr -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/21/2008 6:14:17 PM)

It was just past midday, not long before the third summons to prayer, that Ammar ibn Khairan passed through the Gate of the Bells and entered into the palace of Al-Fontina in Silvenes to kill the last of the khalifs of Al-Rassan.

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay.



Strider33 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (7/22/2008 1:25:02 AM)

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."


And here's my all time favorite first sentence:

"Life is difficult."



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