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Opening Lines
Into Thin Air"Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
One of my favorite opening lines is from The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton:"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman, and a ride home."
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"Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.""His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
"In April 2008, Neil Logiudice finally subpenaed me to appear before the grand jury."
Cynthia ☮ ❤ ❀ wrote: "One of my favorite opening lines is from The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton:"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Ne..."
I like that one too, and it's one of only a few I can recognize without Google.
Defending Jacob by William Landay"On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge."
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky"The first thing you should know about me is that I'm Crazy."
Ooops, the opening line from "Lyra and her daemon..." was really from the Golden Compass. I do like this game and find it a good challenge.
Tina wrote: "Ooops, the opening line from "Lyra and her daemon..." was really from the Golden Compass. I do like this game and find it a good challenge."Sorry about that!
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows by Brian Castner"I had mere seconds to get out of the bedroom."
Ultraviolet by Nancy BushI was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami"Those privileged to be present at a family festival of the Forsytes have seen that charming and instructive sight - an upper middle-class family in full plumage."
The Forsyte Saga by John GalsworthyOn January 29, 1951, David Lacks sat behind the wheel of his old Buick, watching the rain fall.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot"The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House' even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there."
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling[Sorry, kind of obscure, but I'm currently reading...and it is very good.]
"Later, when memory was all she had to sustain her, she would come to cherish it: Old Honolulu as it was then, as it would never be again."
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley"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."
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides"He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful."
Underworld by Don DeLillo"Twenty minutes after the war ends, I'm watching stumpers pour up out of a frozen hole in the ground like ants from hell and praying that I keep my natural legs for another day."
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning."
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson"First there was silence --
In the space between Heaven and the Fall, deep in the unknowable distance, there was a moment when the glorious hum of Heaven disappeared and was replaced by a silence so profound that Daniel's soul strained to make out any noise."
[wow, and I thought I wrote run on sentences...]
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny"Carmichael might have been the only person west of the Rocky Mountains that morning who didn't know what was going on."
Progeny (The Children of the White Lions, #1) by R.T. Kaelin"Wet and shivering, he awoke to the roar of the surf and the whistling of the Winter wind."
11 22 63 by Stephen King"One hot spring evening, just as the sun was going down, two men appeared at Patriach's Ponds."
Some Like It Hawk - Donna Andrews“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."
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
"Mondays were known for two things at Ma’s Diner: we poured lots of extra coffee and the tips sucked."
Diners, Dives and Dead Ends, by Terri L. Austin"I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air".
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy"The trial was irretrievably over; everything that could be said had been said, but he had never doubted that he would lose."
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Threaded for Trouble by Janet Bolin"It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months."
Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art by Christopher Moore"Dr. Jonasson was woken by a nurse five minutes before the helicopter was expected to land."
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson"When the lights went off the accompanist kissed her."
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett"Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my free time to thinking about death."
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green“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.”
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett"It was nearly dawn now, but still he continued to read"
Hint please? I'm having no luck at all with this one.
Suspense thriller, author's last name is not civilized ;)
Here's the clues:1. Suspense thriller
2. Author's last name is not civilized
3. Title is a type of search
4. Author's first name is a famous person short in stature or a Mark Twain character
(I can't give it away more, but a co-worker who is a member of this group was recommended this book so if she reads this it's a gift)
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"Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet."