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46 voters
Listopia > Fiona Hurley's votes on the list Books With The Best Starting Lines/Best First Paragraph (15 Books)
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Rebecca
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again."
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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"Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukranian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade..."
Fiona
rated it 5 stars
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A Tale of Two Cities
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
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Pride and Prejudice
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Fiona
rated it 5 stars
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Lolita
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"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul."
Fiona
rated it 5 stars
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I Capture the Castle
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"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. "
Fiona
rated it 5 stars
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Don Quixote
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"Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. "
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The Book Thief
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"First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.
Fiona
rated it 5 stars
HERE IS A SMALL FACT You are going to die." See Review |
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The Bell Jar
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"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
Fiona
rated it 4 stars
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
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"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
Fiona
rated it 4 stars
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
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"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport'."
Fiona
rated it 4 stars
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Gone with the Wind
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"Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were."
Fiona
rated it 4 stars
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Anna Karenina
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Fiona
rated it 5 stars
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Fahrenheit 451
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"It was a pleasure to burn."
Fiona
rated it 5 stars
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
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"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
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