Books With Our Favorite First Lines
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- Descrizione
- First impressions are powerful, and the first lines of the books we read can pack quite a punch. Our List of the Month this June is devoted to the books with our favorite first lines. Each participant may vote on ten titles. Please do not downvote titles, as judgment in these matters is subjective.
1
di Jane Austen
81,269 utenti
1,372 recensioni
½ 4.4
Punteggio 85.94
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:36 PM
- 25 Members
- rosalita, anglemark, LadyUndomiel, magnetgrrl, mldg, dewasus1, lizzy50usa, saskia17, amanda4242, merrystar, victoriapeak, sturlington, kleh, susanbooks, michigantrumpet, ahef1963, AbigailAdams26, barefootsong, asiralh, Boand, steller0707, teesamai, loulourevisited, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Spiegazioni
- amanda4242: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
2
95,150 utenti
1,194 recensioni
½ 4.3
Punteggio 61.76
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:30 PM
- 19 Members
- scampus, LadyUndomiel, kleo, yoyogod, abbottthomas, dewasus1, sharder, amanda4242, masterdeski, merrystar, perennialreader, ahef1963, flying_monkeys, timetunnel, msjudy, msemmag, barefootsong, mirryi, PeanutNoir
- Spiegazioni
- amanda4242: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
3
20,865 utenti
616 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 54.36
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 05:26 PM
- 17 Members
- rosalita, Cecilturtle, magnetgrrl, dewasus1, sturlington, kleh, perennialreader, Porua, souloftherose, tina1969, ahef1963, msemmag, Boand, steller0707, HH_Library, loulourevisited, PeanutNoir
- Spiegazioni
- rosalita: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"
4
36,917 utenti
457 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 52.16
Aggiunto 2023-06-08, 06:04 AM
- 17 Members
- LadyUndomiel, paradoxosalpha, lahochstetler, dewasus1, PitcherBooks, merrystar, kleh, perennialreader, Tess_W, Boand, CharlesTheB, TMCTX, Tosta, HH_Library, loulourevisited, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Spiegazioni
- paradoxosalpha: 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 far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
5
- 16 Members
- lorax, Cecilturtle, paradoxosalpha, kleo, sturlington, souloftherose, susanbooks, katemcangus, al.vick, ahef1963, AntonioGallo, asiralh, steller0707, CharlesTheB, tekitora, PureChaos
- Spiegazioni
- al.vick: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."AntonioGallo: Phrases such as "Big Brother is watching you" and "doublethink" have entered the lexicon and are often used to describe similar situations in modern times.
6
38,996 utenti
724 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 47.68
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 09:12 AM
- 16 Members
- LadyUndomiel, paradoxosalpha, yoyogod, abbottthomas, elenchus, Porua, al.vick, ahef1963, kristilabrie, timetunnel, SandraArdnas, asiralh, steller0707, DoomLuz, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Spiegazioni
- al.vick: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
7
di C. S. Lewis
25,665 utenti
259 recensioni
4
Punteggio 45.13
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:44 PM
- 16 Members
- scampus, LadyUndomiel, sharder, lizzy50usa, saskia17, amanda4242, masterdeski, merrystar, sturlington, EMS_24, al.vick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, asiralh, steller0707, slimikin
- Spiegazioni
- ManWithAnAgenda: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it
8
24,943 utenti
528 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 42.09
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 03:15 PM
- 13 Members
- hipdeep, anglemark, magnetgrrl, masterdeski, merrystar, dougb56586, souloftherose, Debashis.book, barefootsong, Boand, steller0707, HH_Library, slimikin
- Spiegazioni
- merrystar: "Marley was dead, to begin with."
9
di Ray Bradbury
54,299 utenti
1,006 recensioni
4
Punteggio 40.64
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:07 PM
- 14 Members
- rosalita, Cecilturtle, LadyUndomiel, magnetgrrl, sturlington, RBeffa, katemcangus, Tess_W, barefootsong, steller0707, DoomLuz, slimikin, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Spiegazioni
- rosalita: "IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN."
10
di León Tolstói
38,696 utenti
633 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 37.72
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 02:53 PM
- 13 Members
- Cecilturtle, LadyUndomiel, lahochstetler, dewasus1, saskia17, Cecrow, PitcherBooks, kleh, perennialreader, katemcangus, Tess_W, CharlesTheB, HH_Library
- Spiegazioni
- perennialreader: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
11
di Dodie Smith
9,241 utenti
295 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 33.85
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:43 PM
- 12 Members
- dewasus1, lizzy50usa, saskia17, merrystar, EMS_24, perennialreader, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, HH_Library, PeanutNoir, PureChaos
- Spiegazioni
- ManWithAnAgenda: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
12
2,347 utenti
39 recensioni
4
Punteggio 33.68
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 11:49 AM
- 12 Members
- anglemark, pitjrw, abbottthomas, dewasus1, elenchus, victoriapeak, kleh, RBeffa, susanbooks, Boand, steller0707, loulourevisited
- Spiegazioni
- susanbooks: The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
13
9,869 utenti
433 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 29.65
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:41 PM
- 10 Members
- rosalita, pitjrw, sturlington, Porua, ahef1963, msemmag, ManWithAnAgenda, asiralh, steller0707, DoomLuz
- Spiegazioni
- 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.
14
23,157 utenti
380 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 29.23
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 12:03 PM
- 9 Members
- hipdeep, kleo, GuyMontag, Cecrow, elenchus, souloftherose, vwinsloe, timetunnel, Mguod
- Spiegazioni
- Cecrow: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
15
di Karl Marx
15,212 utenti
138 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 23.07
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 11:55 AM
- 8 Members
- paradoxosalpha, pitjrw, elenchus, kleh, susanbooks, ahef1963, elahrairah, PureChaos
- Spiegazioni
- susanbooks: A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.
16
39,788 utenti
963 recensioni
4
Punteggio 22.57
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 11:07 PM
- 8 Members
- Aquila, Cecilturtle, LadyUndomiel, dewasus1, masterdeski, TMCTX, Tosta, PureChaos
- Spiegazioni
- Aquila: "It was a dark and stormy night."
17
di J. M. Barrie
19,099 utenti
326 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 20.45
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:03 PM
- 7 Members
- scampus, dewasus1, saskia17, Tess_W, al.vick, AbigailAdams26, barefootsong
- Spiegazioni
- AbigailAdams26: “All children, except one, grow up."
18
44,653 utenti
699 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 20.18
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 12:04 PM
- 6 Members
- lorax, pitjrw, kleo, perennialreader, SandraArdnas, CharlesTheB
- Spiegazioni
- SandraArdnas: 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. (...) The world was so recent that many things lacked names
19
24,142 utenti
213 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 17.5
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 10:54 AM
- 6 Members
- paradoxosalpha, magnetgrrl, elenchus, AntonioGallo, barefootsong, slimikin
- Spiegazioni
- paradoxosalpha: When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.AntonioGallo: I prefer "Inferno" since it is known for its exploration of moral and ethical issues. Dante uses the sins and punishments of the various characters to comment on the nature of sin, justice, and divine retribution. This gives the book a timeless quality that continues to resonate with readers today. Life, sometimes, is just like Inferno
20
di Sylvia Plath
28,291 utenti
505 recensioni
4
Punteggio 16.23
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:42 PM
- 6 Members
- lahochstetler, susanbooks, msemmag, ManWithAnAgenda, Tosta, HH_Library
- Spiegazioni
- ManWithAnAgenda: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
21
di Martha Wells
5,623 utenti
354 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 16.09
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 11:25 PM
- 5 Members
- lizzy50usa, souloftherose, asiralh, Tosta, slimikin
- Spiegazioni
- souloftherose: "I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module..."
22
di Donna Tartt
20,549 utenti
559 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 14.96
Aggiunto 2023-06-12, 06:15 PM
- 5 Members
- lahochstetler, sturlington, msemmag, teesamai, jsclar
- Spiegazioni
- sturlington: The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
23
18,676 utenti
1,270 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 14.69
Aggiunto 2023-06-09, 08:10 PM
- 5 Members
- saskia17, flying_monkeys, msjudy, Tosta, HH_Library
- Spiegazioni
- saskia17: The circus arrives without warning.
24
44,238 utenti
709 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 14.54
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 12:13 PM
- 5 Members
- rosalita, elenchus, ahef1963, SandraArdnas, Tosta
- Spiegazioni
- SandraArdnas: All this happened, more or less.
25
23,958 utenti
989 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 14.27
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 09:17 AM
- 5 Members
- chin2chin, masterdeski, Tess_W, al.vick, HH_Library
- Spiegazioni
- al.vick: Prologue: "People disappear all the time."
26
di E. B. White
36,350 utenti
1,027 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 14.1
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 09:17 AM
- 5 Members
- Cecilturtle, lahochstetler, elenchus, rodwms, PureChaos
27
35,687 utenti
545 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 13.81
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 12:03 PM
- 5 Members
- Cecrow, CharlesTheB, Tosta, HH_Library, loulourevisited
- Spiegazioni
- Cecrow: "Call me Ishmael."
28
25,004 utenti
533 recensioni
½ 4.3
Punteggio 13.72
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 01:20 AM
29
12,610 utenti
260 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 13.02
Aggiunto 2023-06-16, 02:59 AM
- 4 Members
- anglemark, msemmag, CharlesTheB, kay.emme
- Spiegazioni
- anglemark: "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, 'If on a winter's night a traveler'."
30
di Andy Weir
18,331 utenti
1,252 recensioni
½ 4.3
Punteggio 11.86
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 09:44 AM
- 4 Members
- al.vick, timetunnel, HH_Library, PatrickBenner
- Spiegazioni
- al.vick: "I'm pretty much fucked."
31
di Isak Dinesen
5,254 utenti
100 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 11.58
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 05:02 PM
- 4 Members
- otori, kleh, perennialreader, loulourevisited
- Spiegazioni
- otori: “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”perennialreader: I had a Farm in Africa.
32
di Henry James
10,799 utenti
125 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 11.06
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:42 PM
- 4 Members
- PitcherBooks, EMS_24, ManWithAnAgenda, Boand
- Spiegazioni
- ManWithAnAgenda: Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
33
di Jane Austen
21,770 utenti
420 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 10.43
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 03:36 PM
- 4 Members
- amanda4242, susanbooks, barefootsong, slimikin
- Spiegazioni
- amanda4242: "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine."
34
di Stephen King
22,947 utenti
495 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 10.19
Aggiunto 2023-06-08, 04:07 AM
- 3 Members
- scampus, ianreads, sturlington
- Spiegazioni
- sturlington: The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.
35
481 utenti
12 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 9.94
Aggiunto 2023-06-08, 12:11 AM
- 4 Members
- paradoxosalpha, magnetgrrl, yoyogod, elenchus
- Spiegazioni
- yoyogod: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
36
di Tamsyn Muir
4,595 utenti
186 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 9.67
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 11:02 PM
37
- 4 Members
- scampus, elenchus, susanbooks, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- susanbooks: Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
38
16,056 utenti
385 recensioni
4
Punteggio 9.4
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 10:55 PM
39
- 3 Members
- anglemark, sharder, loulourevisited
- Spiegazioni
- anglemark: μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος / οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε
40
36,392 utenti
744 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 9.23
Aggiunto 2023-06-19, 06:43 AM
- 3 Members
- sharder, barefootsong, Mark.Milton
- Spiegazioni
- barefootsong: "Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
41
42
di Albert Camus
35,699 utenti
510 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 8.71
Aggiunto 2023-06-14, 01:52 PM
- 3 Members
- Cecilturtle, Boand, CharlesTheB
- Spiegazioni
- Cecilturtle: Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
43
11,206 utenti
183 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 8.17
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 11:35 AM
- 3 Members
- Cecilturtle, kleh, susanbooks
- Spiegazioni
- susanbooks: For a long time I used to go to bed early.
44
di Sarah Waters
5,123 utenti
148 recensioni
4
Punteggio 7.99
Aggiunto 2023-06-09, 02:46 PM
- 3 Members
- anglemark, kristilabrie, msemmag
- Spiegazioni
- kristilabrie: "Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster?"
45
di Jon Stone
5,232 utenti
105 recensioni
½ 4.5
Punteggio 7.84
Aggiunto 2023-06-15, 11:29 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, EerierIdyllMeme, lahochstetler
- Spiegazioni
- EerierIdyllMeme: On the copyright page: "This is a very dull page. What is on the next page?"
46
11,351 utenti
157 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 7.69
Aggiunto 2023-06-09, 08:08 PM
- 3 Members
- saskia17, PitcherBooks, merrystar
- Spiegazioni
- saskia17: Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree.
47
di Tom Robbins
5,800 utenti
75 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 7.04
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 08:10 AM
- 2 Members
- vwinsloe, SandraArdnas
- Spiegazioni
- vwinsloe: "If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done."
48
17,610 utenti
425 recensioni
½ 4.3
Punteggio 6.75
Aggiunto 2023-06-12, 06:16 PM
- 3 Members
- merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- sturlington: There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always.
49
6,435 utenti
164 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 6.56
Aggiunto 2023-06-08, 12:19 AM
50
- 2 Members
- SavvyScot, amanda4242
- Spiegazioni
- amanda4242: "to wound the autumnal city."
51
19,263 utenti
348 recensioni
4
Punteggio 6.46
Aggiunto 2023-06-09, 08:09 PM
52
21,175 utenti
282 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 6.4
Aggiunto 2023-06-19, 09:45 PM
- 2 Members
- msjudy, PeanutNoir
- Spiegazioni
- PeanutNoir: "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."
53
di Isak Dinesen
2,116 utenti
22 recensioni
4
Punteggio 6.4
Aggiunto 2023-06-14, 08:39 PM
- 2 Members
- victoriapeak, RBeffa
- Spiegazioni
- RBeffa: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
54
1,275 utenti
82 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 6.38
Aggiunto 2023-06-08, 05:51 PM
- 2 Members
- LadyUndomiel, asiralh
- Spiegazioni
- asiralh: “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 young gentleman by the name of Enrico Fermi was born into a family so overprotective that he felt compelled to invent the atomic bomb.”
55
di H. G. Wells
18,532 utenti
310 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 6.25
Aggiunto 2023-06-11, 02:14 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, fvenez
- Spiegazioni
- 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.
56
10,350 utenti
285 recensioni
4
Punteggio 6.04
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 01:56 PM
- 2 Members
- rosalita, abbottthomas
- Spiegazioni
- abbottthomas: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
57
- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, SandraArdnas
- Spiegazioni
- paradoxosalpha: There were angels in the glass, two four six many of them, each one shuffling into his place in line like an alderman at the Lord Mayor's show.
58
di Emily Brontë
52,367 utenti
709 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 5.92
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 05:27 PM
59
4,815 utenti
116 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 5.87
Aggiunto 2023-06-11, 02:04 PM
60
61
62
2,372 utenti
35 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 5.42
Aggiunto 2023-06-20, 05:31 PM
63
1,268 utenti
37 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 5.35
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 05:03 PM
- 2 Members
- pitjrw, perennialreader
- Spiegazioni
- perennialreader: Take my camel, dear, said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
64
6,577 utenti
172 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 5.29
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 02:58 PM
- 2 Members
- rosalita, katemcangus
- Spiegazioni
- rosalita: "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."
65
- 2 Members
- Cecrow, CharlesTheB
- Spiegazioni
- Cecrow: "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 down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."
66
di Harper Lee
78,980 utenti
1,434 recensioni
½ 4.4
Punteggio 5.13
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 05:13 PM
- 2 Members
- kleo, perennialreader
- Spiegazioni
- perennialreader: When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
67
30,692 utenti
453 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 5.02
Aggiunto 2023-06-14, 12:27 PM
- 2 Members
- CharlesTheB, loulourevisited
68
19,372 utenti
325 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 5.02
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 11:34 AM
- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, elenchus
- Spiegazioni
- paradoxosalpha: Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
69
4,132 utenti
83 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 5.02
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 09:13 AM
- 2 Members
- al.vick, SandraArdnas
- Spiegazioni
- al.vick: "This isn't at all what I expected. In 1985, by some sort of journalistic accident I was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine to look for an almost extinct form of lemur called the aye-aye. None of the three of us had ever met before. I had never met Mark, Mark had never met me, and no one, apparently, had seen an aye-aye in years."
70
- 2 Members
- EerierIdyllMeme, CharlesTheB
- Spiegazioni
- EerierIdyllMeme: There once lived, at a series of temporary addresses across the United States of America, a traveling man of Indian origin, advancing years, and retreating mental powers, who, on account of his love for mindless television, had spent far too much of his life in the yellow light of tawdry motel rooms watching an excess of it, and had suffered a peculiar form of brain damage as a result.
71
1 utente
Punteggio 4.87
Aggiunto 2023-06-14, 04:55 PM
72
18,975 utenti
888 recensioni
½ 4.3
Punteggio 4.77
Aggiunto 2023-06-20, 06:06 PM
73
4,782 utenti
150 recensioni
4
Punteggio 4.76
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 09:15 AM
74
7,589 utenti
192 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 4.63
Aggiunto 2023-06-09, 08:12 PM
75
- Member
- kristilabrie
- Spiegazioni
- kristilabrie: "In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."
76
14,017 utenti
247 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-07-02, 10:57 AM
77
- Member
- Micheller7
- Spiegazioni
- Micheller7: “It was Wang Lung’s wedding day.” I have remembered this line for about 65 years.
78
di Evelyn Waugh
12,641 utenti
265 recensioni
4
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-07-22, 08:17 AM
- Member
- dud5ers
79
- Member
- sharder
80
12,267 utenti
120 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-06-15, 10:13 PM
- Member
- EerierIdyllMeme
- Spiegazioni
- EerierIdyllMeme: It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport".
81
10,811 utenti
141 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 05:07 PM
- Member
- paradoxosalpha
- Spiegazioni
- paradoxosalpha: A screaming comes across the sky.
82
di V. E. Schwab
7,562 utenti
326 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-06-19, 02:40 PM
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di Michel Faber
6,751 utenti
198 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 05:30 AM
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6,634 utenti
125 recensioni
½ 4.3
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-06-06, 04:56 PM
- Member
- perennialreader
- Spiegazioni
- perennialreader: So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration.
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5,996 utenti
97 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-06-08, 04:52 AM
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- LibraryCin
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- LibraryCin: Three days before her death, my mother told me -- these weren't her last words, but they were pretty lose -- that my brother was still alive.
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133 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-06-19, 09:31 PM
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- PeanutNoir
- Spiegazioni
- PeanutNoir: "They threw me off the hay truck about noon."
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39 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-07-23, 11:04 PM
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- exhocforte
- Spiegazioni
- exhocforte: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
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546 utenti
19 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-06-07, 01:49 PM
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- abbottthomas
- Spiegazioni
- abbottthomas: Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.
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489 utenti
9 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2023-06-22, 10:32 PM
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- barefootsong
- Spiegazioni
- barefootsong: "When I was nine years old, I hid under a table and heard my sister kill a king." This first line has stuck with me since I first read this in sixth grade.
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- AbigailAdams26
- Spiegazioni
- AbigailAdams26: Mr. C'Mere's first line: "Humans were diggers and buriers, the cat thought, like dogs." Zoë's first line: "I'd hoped for better, Henry's being a heart doctor. A job like that, you'd think he might actually have a heart."
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101 utenti
1 recensione
4
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Aggiunto 2023-06-13, 03:30 PM
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- prosfilaes
- Spiegazioni
- prosfilaes: 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 housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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- Member
- EMS_24
- Spiegazioni
- EMS_24: 'Except for the man who thought Sarphatistraat was the most beautiful place in Europe, I have never known a more curious fellow than the 'bummer/ deadbeat/ .'' - "Behalve den man, die de Sarphatistraat de mooiste plek van Europa vond, heb ik nooit een wonderlijker kerel gekend dan den uitvreter."
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- paulmdh
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- Member
- katemcangus