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Fiction First Lines #1162217
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Can you identify the following fictional novels by their opening lines?

-1. 1801- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with.
-. At half-past six on a Friday evening in January, Lincoln International Airport, Illinois, was functioning, though with difficulty
-3. An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay - Lyme Bay being that largest byte from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg -- and a person of curiousity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.
-4. His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.
-5. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
-6. The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there".
-7. The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendents table - the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible at his own trial.
-8. He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun of Zam-Zammeh on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaibgher - the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum.
-9. In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
-10. My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.



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Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162218
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1. Wuthering Heights wave

Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162219
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10. Great Expectations

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Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162220
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Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162234
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Great starts! wave


The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162247
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Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162248
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3. A modern-day rewrite of "The French Lieutenants Woman" ("...that largest byte...") lol

Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162254
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Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162267
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That's three more good ones! wave

Rog lol


The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162279
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4. Foundation, first book of The Foundation Trilogy by one of my favorite authors, Isaac Asimov


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for thou art crunchy and good with ketchup.
Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162300
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Also one of my favorite authors, Scarlet. smile


The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162302
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8. Kipling's Kim

I still get goosebumps when I remember Asimov's chapter titles "The Answer That Satisfied" and "The Answer That Was True." I think it's time for a reread of the trilogy.


“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” -Bill Watterson
Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162305
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I'm thinking the same thing, Lady K! lol


The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162517
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2. Airport

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Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162522
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Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Re: Fiction First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1162576
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Yes to both! wave


The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
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