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First lines meme
First lines from 15 20 of my favourite books. Some rather more obvious than others. Cookies if you can guess the title and author. :D
1. I sit in a pitch-pine panelled kitchen-living-room, with an otter asleep upon its back among the cushions on the sofa, forepaws in the air, and with the expression of tightly shut concentration that very small babies wear in sleep.
2. Making one's home in an unpublished novel wasn't without its compensations. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
3. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advise that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. In the days of high-waisted and muslin-gowned women, when the vast amount of soldiering going on in the country was a cause of much trembling to the sex, there lived in a village near the Wessex coast two ladies of good report, though unfortunately of limited means. The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
5. Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster? If you have, you will remember it.
6. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
7. Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow loveable.
8. The noise of a helicopter at night fills the whole world.
9. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
10. I was begotten on the giant of Cerne Abbas.
11. There was death at its beginning as there would be death at its end.
12. My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
13. When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
14. The Island was no-man's land, little more than a mountainous slab of rock high above the Arctic Circle.
15. High atop the steps of the Great Pyramid of Giza, a young woman laughed and called down to him. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
16. The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House', even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
17. The primroses were over.
18. Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
19. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20. In the first place, Abigail Kirk was not Abigail at all.
1. I sit in a pitch-pine panelled kitchen-living-room, with an otter asleep upon its back among the cushions on the sofa, forepaws in the air, and with the expression of tightly shut concentration that very small babies wear in sleep.
2. Making one's home in an unpublished novel wasn't without its compensations. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
3. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advise that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. In the days of high-waisted and muslin-gowned women, when the vast amount of soldiering going on in the country was a cause of much trembling to the sex, there lived in a village near the Wessex coast two ladies of good report, though unfortunately of limited means. The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
5. Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster? If you have, you will remember it.
6. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
7. Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow loveable.
8. The noise of a helicopter at night fills the whole world.
9. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
10. I was begotten on the giant of Cerne Abbas.
11. There was death at its beginning as there would be death at its end.
12. My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
13. When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
14. The Island was no-man's land, little more than a mountainous slab of rock high above the Arctic Circle.
15. High atop the steps of the Great Pyramid of Giza, a young woman laughed and called down to him. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
16. The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House', even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
17. The primroses were over.
18. Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
19. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20. In the first place, Abigail Kirk was not Abigail at all.
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3. The Great Gatsby
6. The Hobbit
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
15. Angels and Demons
16. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
19. Pride and Prejudice
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12. Angela's Ashes
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You're right, it is a Hardy. Admittedly not my all-time favourite Hardy novel, but always a good read. The title was 'The Trumpet-Major'.
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