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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Barbara 1390 books
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Stephanie 411 books
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Brianna 76 books
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Marina 9857 books
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Jessica 1196 books
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cj 395 books
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Eclectic 1396 books
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Hannah 509 books
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Lady R.E. Miller 267 books
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Robin 799 books
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Meltha 4803 books
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Sam 293 books
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Elisa 1543 books
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Ramya 22 books
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Jim 423 books
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Theresa 246 books
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Marissa 1860 books
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Aditi 490 books
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