ingridpingrid
First piece published in the school’s newspaper
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Post by ingridpingrid on May 28, 2007 10:58:35 GMT -5
I also loved the first line in special topics in calamity physics, but I almost thought "Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to read it." the first line of the introduction of the book was better.
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Jun 4, 2007 20:59:55 GMT -5
I love this first line, from "A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama" by Laura Amy Schlitz:
"On the morning of the best day of her life, Maud Flynn was locked in the outhouse, singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Jun 5, 2007 7:29:06 GMT -5
That's a really good one, Zelda!
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Jun 5, 2007 17:34:18 GMT -5
haha that's funny
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lindsay
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." - Franz Kafka
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Post by lindsay on Jun 7, 2007 15:56:38 GMT -5
Yes, very funny
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Juliet
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.?Victor Hugo
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Post by Juliet on Jun 21, 2007 13:56:58 GMT -5
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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so. from tales of two cities On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. from tess of the d'urbervilles
lu i love the baron in the trees!
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Jun 21, 2007 14:02:41 GMT -5
Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways." ~Prisoner of Azkaban
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Jun 21, 2007 15:10:03 GMT -5
lu i love the baron in the trees! I think Italo Calvino is such a great writer.
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Juliet
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.?Victor Hugo
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Post by Juliet on Jun 22, 2007 6:12:18 GMT -5
he is!my favourite is invisible cities
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Jun 22, 2007 6:59:35 GMT -5
he is!my favourite is invisible cities I haven't read it yet, but I will definitely do.
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Post by andrea disaster on Jun 23, 2007 0:11:59 GMT -5
The opening line of Fahrenheit 451 always stuck with me: "It was a pleasure to burn."
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stargazer2
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by stargazer2 on Jun 28, 2007 20:43:41 GMT -5
"Howard Roark laughed." -from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (one of my favorite books) Also by Ayn Rand is: "Who is John Galt?" -from Atlas Shrugged.
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Post by Dominique on Jul 17, 2007 7:22:15 GMT -5
"On the morning the last Lisborn daughter took her life - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two parametics arrived knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope."
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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lindsay
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." - Franz Kafka
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Post by lindsay on Jul 19, 2007 17:11:19 GMT -5
That reminds me of how haunting that book was.
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Jul 26, 2007 12:16:40 GMT -5
"For a long time I used to go to bed early"
Swann's way by Marcel Proust
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