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Dec 8 2007, 2:51 PM EST by
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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, by Brady Udall
"If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head."
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Dec 8 2007, 2:51 PM EST
"It's "Call me Ishmael" actually, which has quite a different meaning and much more significance to the book." Ouch! That stings, but proves my point exactly. I had a hard time sorting out the meaning, as I said. "Call me Ishmael.....My name is Ishmael" I still see no special significance in either way. Is the author referring to the unhappy story of the Biblical Ishmael? Who knows? Even PInk Monkey, the internet equivalent of Cliff Notes says, "Several motifs are begun in this first chapter--the main one being that there is no one meaning of any occurrence."
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Favorite First Lines
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Nov 13 2006, 8:58 AM EST by
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The Bible
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
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college memories...
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Oct 26 2006, 10:38 PM EDT by
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i had a college english professor who would quote the first sentence of books instead of say their title. it made it really hard to follow her lectures, but it also made for a rather amusing guessing game!
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"i had a college english professor who would quote the first sentence of books instead of say their title. it made it really hard to follow her lectures, but it also made for a rather amusing guessing game! " This is really clever, and a neat way to possibly get people interested in new reads!
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Great First lines to remember
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Oct 23 2006, 4:08 PM EDT by
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again. (Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier)
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The Corrections & The Virgin Suicides
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Oct 15 2006, 8:18 AM EDT by
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"The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through. You could feel it: something terrible was going to happen." (Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections)
"On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was posible to tie a rope." (Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides)
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Sep 12 2006, 2:27 PM EDT by
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"We mutinied when we reached the coast"
from Island of the Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw
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Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
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Sep 6 2006, 3:39 PM EDT by
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
-- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
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1st line from The Blood of Losers
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Jun 29 2006, 11:32 AM EDT by
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"The dead baby was hardly bigger than your average house cat."
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My Vote for Best First Line: Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
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Jun 14 2006, 5:43 PM EDT by
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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.
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100 years of solitude
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May 31 2006, 6:33 PM EDT by
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Best all time first line!
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