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: "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany."

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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Anna 632 books
11 friends
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"I am doomed


Kathy 166 books
69 friends
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"I am doomed


Barbara 1874 books
38 friends
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"I am doomed


Matt 2687 books
224 friends
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"I am doomed


Betsy 1301 books
54 friends
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"I am doomed


Hannah 118 books
22 friends
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"I am doomed


Kathryn 575 books
128 friends
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"I am doomed


nobody 709 books
21 friends
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"I am doomed


Jessica 1734 books
159 friends
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"I am doomed


Mariam 894 books
20 friends
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"I am doomed


Judith 4856 books
85 friends
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"I am doomed


Anne 15 books
50 friends
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"I am doomed


Murali 198 books
6 friends
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"I am doomed


Tomomi 128 books
21 friends
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"I am doomed


Bess 107 books
29 friends
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treehugger 3185 books
79 friends
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"I am doomed


Brenda 1721 books
38 friends
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"I am doomed


Angie 734 books
636 friends
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"I am doomed


Mary 579 books
519 friends
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"I am doomed


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