poll: Sometimes the first line of a book just grabs you by the nostrils and drags your fool head into its pages, preventing escape in any way, shape or form. Which of these opening lines has its phalanges most firmly planted in your nasal cavities? —> people who voted for: "Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant, and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal ant annexation."

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Eclectic
Eclectic
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Marissa
Marissa
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Jim
Jim
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Hannah
Hannah
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Elisabeth
Elisabeth
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Carol
Carol
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Sam
Sam
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Meltha
Meltha
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Ramya
Ramya
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Z
Z
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Stephanie
Stephanie
179 books
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Robin
Robin
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Marina
Marina
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Lady R.E. Miller
Lady R.E. Miller
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