Best First Lines
- Kuvaus
- Novels that have excellent or memorable first lines. Started from American Book Review's 100 Best First Lines from Novels (http://americanbookreview.org/100bestlines.asp)
1
tekijä: Jane Austen
80,624 jäsentä
1,369 arvostelua
½ 4.4
Pistemäärä 16.02
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
2
tekijä: C. S. Lewis
25,396 jäsentä
258 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 14.23
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:25 PM
- 6 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it
3
tekijä: J. R. R. Tolkien
94,368 jäsentä
1,189 arvostelua
½ 4.3
Pistemäärä 13.63
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
4
tekijä: Dodie Smith
9,202 jäsentä
294 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 11.75
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
5
tekijä: George Orwell
81,961 jäsentä
1,272 arvostelua
4.2
Pistemäärä 11.2
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
6
tekijä: Charles Dickens
36,655 jäsentä
456 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 10.98
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
7
tekijä: Ray Bradbury
53,921 jäsentä
998 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 10.35
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 5 Members
- hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: It was a pleasure to burn.
8
tekijä: William Goldman
24,836 jäsentä
530 arvostelua
½ 4.3
Pistemäärä 9.16
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
9
tekijä: Charles Dickens
24,689 jäsentä
525 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 8.87
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
10
tekijä: Mark Twain
42,966 jäsentä
518 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 8.53
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
11
tekijä: Kurt Vonnegut
44,008 jäsentä
705 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 8.07
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: All this happened, more or less.
12
tekijä: Daphne Du Maurier
20,723 jäsentä
612 arvostelua
4.2
Pistemäärä 7.65
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
13
tekijä: Zora Neale Hurston
19,122 jäsentä
346 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 7.51
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
14
tekijä: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44,408 jäsentä
695 arvostelua
4.2
Pistemäärä 6.7
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
15
tekijä: Leo Tolstoy
38,467 jäsentä
628 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 6.21
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
16
tekijä: Herman Melville
35,555 jäsentä
541 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 6.07
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Call me Ishmael.
17
tekijä: Shirley Jackson
9,747 jäsentä
432 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 6.03
Tallennettu 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- ManWithAnAgenda: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
18
tekijä: J. D. Salinger
69,537 jäsentä
1,080 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 5.97
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
19
tekijä: Sylvia Plath
28,086 jäsentä
502 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 5.92
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:38 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
20
tekijä: Ursula K. Le Guin
15,963 jäsentä
384 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 5.76
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 05:58 PM
21
tekijä: Laurence Sterne
7,667 jäsentä
113 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 5.75
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:13 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.
22
tekijä: F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,172 jäsentä
1,170 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 5.71
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
23
tekijä: James Joyce
21,210 jäsentä
217 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 5.67
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
24
tekijä: Charles Dickens
20,674 jäsentä
276 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 5.61
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
25
tekijä: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
30,521 jäsentä
449 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 5.52
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: 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.
26
tekijä: Toni Morrison
22,837 jäsentä
406 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 5.49
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: 124 was spiteful.
27
tekijä: J. M. Barrie
18,927 jäsentä
326 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 5.47
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 11:29 PM
28
tekijä: Albert Camus
35,529 jäsentä
507 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 5.34
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Mother died today.
29
tekijä: Ford Madox Ford
4,786 jäsentä
114 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 5.31
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
30
tekijä: Jean Rhys
8,461 jäsentä
254 arvostelua
½ 3.5
Pistemäärä 5.25
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:54 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
31
tekijä: Edith Wharton
9,500 jäsentä
214 arvostelua
½ 3.6
Pistemäärä 5.21
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
32
tekijä: Lloyd Alexander
7,897 jäsentä
168 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 5.19
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- hipdeep: Taran wanted to make a sword, but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
33
tekijä: Carson McCullers
10,721 jäsentä
243 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 5.19
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:52 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.
34
tekijä: Pat Conroy
5,820 jäsentä
108 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 5.1
Tallennettu 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- ManWithAnAgenda: My wound is geography.
35
tekijä: Alice Walker
19,729 jäsentä
336 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 5.07
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: You better not never tell nobody but God.
36
tekijä: Virginia Woolf
20,631 jäsentä
330 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 5.03
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
37
tekijä: W. Somerset Maugham
6,224 jäsentä
115 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 4.97
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:31 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.
38
tekijä: Graham Greene
6,522 jäsentä
171 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 4.94
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
39
tekijä: Daniel Defoe
24,884 jäsentä
323 arvostelua
½ 3.6
Pistemäärä 4.9
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:29 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.
40
tekijä: George Eliot
17,715 jäsentä
330 arvostelua
4.2
Pistemäärä 4.86
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:30 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
41
tekijä: Salman Rushdie
12,043 jäsentä
139 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 4.67
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
42
tekijä: William Gibson
23,058 jäsentä
379 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 4.54
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
43
tekijä: Rafael Sabatini
1,744 jäsentä
55 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 4.33
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:51 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
44
tekijä: Vladimir Nabokov
31,710 jäsentä
563 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 4.32
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
45
tekijä: Louisa May Alcott
26,442 jäsentä
399 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 4.32
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 11:01 PM
46
tekijä: Nathanael West
775 jäsentä
33 arvostelua
½ 3.4
Pistemäärä 4.23
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.
47
tekijä: James Joyce
5,337 jäsentä
59 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 4.09
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
48
tekijä: Ralph Ellison
16,174 jäsentä
212 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 4.04
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:11 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: I am an invisible man.
49
tekijä: Alan Gordon
118 jäsentä
3 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 4
Tallennettu 2022-06-18, 08:45 AM
50
tekijä: Franz Kafka
19,893 jäsentä
237 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 3.79
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:10 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
51
tekijä: Geoffrey Chaucer
21,985 jäsentä
168 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 3.77
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
52
tekijä: H. G. Wells
18,399 jäsentä
309 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 3.68
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- hipdeep: No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were being scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
53
tekijä: Italo Calvino
12,518 jäsentä
258 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 3.67
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
54
tekijä: L. P. Hartley
2,329 jäsentä
38 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 3.6
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:44 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
55
tekijä: Anita Brookner
558 jäsentä
18 arvostelua
½ 3.5
Pistemäärä 3.57
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
56
tekijä: Svetlana Alexievich
2,340 jäsentä
78 arvostelua
½ 4.3
Pistemäärä 3.5
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
57
tekijä: Thomas Pynchon
10,995 jäsentä
194 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 3.46
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.
58
tekijä: James Joyce
24,074 jäsentä
378 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 3.44
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
59
tekijä: Virginia Woolf
10,613 jäsentä
175 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 3.38
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
60
tekijä: Paul Auster
1,450 jäsentä
35 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 3.37
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
61
tekijä: William Faulkner
17,278 jäsentä
226 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 3.34
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
62
tekijä: Hunter S. Thompson
14,403 jäsentä
192 arvostelua
4
Pistemäärä 3.28
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
63
tekijä: Franz Kafka
12,465 jäsentä
219 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 3.26
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:32 PM
64
tekijä: Marcel Proust
11,134 jäsentä
183 arvostelua
4.2
Pistemäärä 3.21
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: For a long time, I went to bed early.
65
tekijä: Ernest Hemingway
30,716 jäsentä
505 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 3.05
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
66
tekijä: Thomas Pynchon
10,752 jäsentä
142 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 3.04
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: A screaming comes across the sky.
67
tekijä: Charles Williams
776 jäsentä
9 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 3.04
Tallennettu 2022-06-16, 10:52 AM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Selitykset
- ManWithAnAgenda: The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
68
tekijä: Jeffrey Eugenides
27,145 jäsentä
631 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 3.02
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Selitykset
- aethercowboy: I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
69
tekijä: Joseph Conrad
9,039 jäsentä
115 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 2.94
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:43 PM
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- aethercowboy: He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
70
tekijä: Ernest Hemingway
22,400 jäsentä
243 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 2.87
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:42 PM
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- aethercowboy: In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.
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tekijä: J. G. Ballard
3,545 jäsentä
77 arvostelua
½ 3.5
Pistemäärä 2.84
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
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- aethercowboy: Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.
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tekijä: Madhuri Vijay
456 jäsentä
18 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 2.83
Tallennettu 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
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73
tekijä: Robert Graves
9,180 jäsentä
168 arvostelua
4.2
Pistemäärä 2.81
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:48 PM
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- aethercowboy: I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot," or "That Claudius," or "Claudius the Stammerer," or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius," am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled.
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tekijä: Margaret Atwood
9,111 jäsentä
163 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 2.77
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
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- aethercowboy: Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space
75
tekijä: Stephen Crane
11,150 jäsentä
128 arvostelua
½ 3.4
Pistemäärä 2.75
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:55 PM
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- aethercowboy: The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
76
tekijä: Henry James
10,821 jäsentä
125 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 2.68
Tallennettu 2022-06-16, 10:52 AM
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- ManWithAnAgenda: Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
77
tekijä: Martha Wells
5,494 jäsentä
343 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 2.46
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 10:54 PM
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tekijä: Tamsyn Muir
4,462 jäsentä
180 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 2.38
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 06:08 PM
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tekijä: Tessa Gratton
129 jäsentä
4 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 2.31
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 11:21 PM
80
tekijä: Nghi Vo
806 jäsentä
29 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 2.25
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 11:25 PM
81
tekijä: C. S. Lewis
8,818 jäsentä
153 arvostelua
4.2
Pistemäärä 2.2
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
82
tekijä: Diana Wynne Jones
1,875 jäsentä
43 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 2.2
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 10:50 PM
83
tekijä: Ursula K. Le Guin
10,700 jäsentä
268 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 2.15
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 05:59 PM
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tekijä: John Christopher
2,519 jäsentä
45 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 2.07
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 07:40 PM
85
tekijä: Edgar Rice Burroughs
4,882 jäsentä
121 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Pistemäärä 2.03
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 10:59 PM
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tekijä: Samuel Beckett
1,659 jäsentä
25 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 2.03
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
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- aethercowboy: The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
87
tekijä: Catherynne M. Valente
1,264 jäsentä
82 arvostelua
½ 3.5
Pistemäärä 2
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
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- hipdeep: Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken, rather nice-looking gentleman by the name of Enrico Fermi was born into a family so overprotective that he felt compelled to invent the atomic bomb.
88
tekijä: Peter De Vries
238 jäsentä
4 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 1.89
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
89
tekijä: John Scalzi
4,901 jäsentä
430 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 1.87
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
90
100 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
4
Pistemäärä 1.85
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
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- aethercowboy: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
91
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- aethercowboy: Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
92
tekijä: Fyodor Dostoevsky
12,522 jäsentä
156 arvostelua
4.1
Pistemäärä 1.7
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
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- aethercowboy: I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.
93
tekijä: Samuel Beckett
579 jäsentä
10 arvostelua
3.9
Pistemäärä 1.68
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
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- aethercowboy: Where now? Who now? When now?
94
tekijä: John Scalzi
2,360 jäsentä
103 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 1.67
Tallennettu 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
95
tekijä: Gertrude Stein
445 jäsentä
3 arvostelua
3.1
Pistemäärä 1.67
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
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- aethercowboy: Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. "Stop!" cried the groaning old man at last, "Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree."
96
tekijä: John Barth
620 jäsentä
11 arvostelua
½ 3.6
Pistemäärä 1.66
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
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- aethercowboy: In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.
97
tekijä: Richard Powers
1,330 jäsentä
28 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 1.65
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
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- aethercowboy: It was like so, but wasn't.
98
tekijä: William Gaddis
1,374 jäsentä
19 arvostelua
4.2
Pistemäärä 1.63
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
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- aethercowboy: —Money . . . in a voice that rustled.
99
tekijä: Toni Morrison
4,891 jäsentä
49 arvostelua
3.8
Pistemäärä 1.6
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
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- aethercowboy: They shoot the white girl first.
100
tekijä: Felipe Alfau
193 jäsentä
2 arvostelua
½ 3.4
Pistemäärä 1.58
Tallennettu 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
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- aethercowboy: The moment one learns English, complications set in.