Best First Lines
- Descrizione
- 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
di Jane Austen
80,590 utenti
1,368 recensioni
½ 4.4
Punteggio 16.02
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
di C. S. Lewis
25,376 utenti
257 recensioni
4
Punteggio 14.23
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:25 PM
- 6 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it
3
94,315 utenti
1,189 recensioni
½ 4.3
Punteggio 13.63
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
4
di Dodie Smith
9,200 utenti
294 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 11.75
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
5
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
6
36,630 utenti
456 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 10.98
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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
di Ray Bradbury
53,884 utenti
997 recensioni
4
Punteggio 10.35
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 5 Members
- hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: It was a pleasure to burn.
8
24,823 utenti
530 recensioni
½ 4.3
Punteggio 9.16
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
9
24,663 utenti
525 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 8.87
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
10
di Mark Twain
42,936 utenti
518 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 8.53
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
44,000 utenti
704 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 8.07
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: All this happened, more or less.
12
20,712 utenti
611 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 7.65
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
13
19,108 utenti
345 recensioni
4
Punteggio 7.51
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
14
44,420 utenti
693 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 6.7
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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
di Leo Tolstoy
38,452 utenti
627 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 6.21
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
16
35,564 utenti
541 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 6.07
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Call me Ishmael.
17
9,733 utenti
431 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 6.03
Aggiunto 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- 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.
18
69,526 utenti
1,078 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 5.97
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
di Sylvia Plath
28,093 utenti
501 recensioni
4
Punteggio 5.92
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:38 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
15,955 utenti
385 recensioni
4
Punteggio 5.76
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 05:58 PM
21
7,663 utenti
113 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 5.75
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:13 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
72,109 utenti
1,169 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 5.71
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
20,666 utenti
275 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 5.61
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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
30,507 utenti
449 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 5.52
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
22,824 utenti
405 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 5.49
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: 124 was spiteful.
27
di J. M. Barrie
18,910 utenti
326 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 5.47
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 11:29 PM
28
di Albert Camus
35,511 utenti
507 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 5.34
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Mother died today.
29
4,784 utenti
114 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 5.31
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
30
di Jean Rhys
8,454 utenti
254 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 5.25
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:54 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
31
9,494 utenti
214 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 5.21
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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
7,891 utenti
168 recensioni
4
Punteggio 5.19
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- hipdeep: Taran wanted to make a sword, but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
33
10,717 utenti
243 recensioni
4
Punteggio 5.19
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:52 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.
34
di Pat Conroy
5,820 utenti
108 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 5.1
Aggiunto 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- ManWithAnAgenda: My wound is geography.
35
di Alice Walker
19,714 utenti
335 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 5.07
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: You better not never tell nobody but God.
36
20,623 utenti
329 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 5.03
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
37
6,222 utenti
115 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 4.97
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:31 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.
38
6,521 utenti
171 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 4.94
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
di Daniel Defoe
24,861 utenti
322 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 4.9
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:29 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
di George Eliot
17,707 utenti
330 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 4.86
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:30 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
41
12,044 utenti
138 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 4.67
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
42
23,055 utenti
379 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 4.54
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
43
1,743 utenti
55 recensioni
4
Punteggio 4.33
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:51 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
44
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
45
26,427 utenti
399 recensioni
4
Punteggio 4.32
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 11:01 PM
46
774 utenti
33 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 4.23
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
di James Joyce
5,333 utenti
58 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 4.09
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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
16,373 utenti
212 recensioni
4
Punteggio 4.04
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 12:11 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: I am an invisible man.
49
di Alan Gordon
118 utenti
3 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2022-06-18, 08:45 AM
50
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
51
21,964 utenti
168 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 3.77
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
52
di H. G. Wells
18,383 utenti
309 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 3.68
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963
- 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.
53
12,516 utenti
258 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 3.67
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
54
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
55
558 utenti
18 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 3.57
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
56
2,336 utenti
78 recensioni
½ 4.3
Punteggio 3.5
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
57
10,990 utenti
194 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 3.46
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
59
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
di Paul Auster
1,450 utenti
35 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 3.37
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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
17,269 utenti
226 recensioni
4
Punteggio 3.34
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
62
14,399 utenti
192 recensioni
4
Punteggio 3.28
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
63
di Franz Kafka
12,452 utenti
219 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 3.26
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:32 PM
64
11,128 utenti
183 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 3.21
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: For a long time, I went to bed early.
65
30,705 utenti
505 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 3.05
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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
10,746 utenti
142 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 3.04
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: A screaming comes across the sky.
67
776 utenti
9 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 3.04
Aggiunto 2022-06-16, 10:52 AM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- ManWithAnAgenda: The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
68
27,137 utenti
631 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 3.02
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- 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
22,393 utenti
243 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 2.87
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:42 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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.
71
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.
72
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- ManWithAnAgenda: I am thirty years old and that is nothing.
73
9,178 utenti
168 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 2.81
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:48 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- 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.
74
9,110 utenti
163 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 2.77
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space
75
11,144 utenti
128 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 2.75
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:55 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
76
di Henry James
10,815 utenti
125 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 2.68
Aggiunto 2022-06-16, 10:52 AM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- ManWithAnAgenda: Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
77
di Martha Wells
5,488 utenti
343 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 2.46
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 10:54 PM
78
di Tamsyn Muir
4,456 utenti
180 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 2.38
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 06:08 PM
79
80
di Nghi Vo
804 utenti
29 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 2.25
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 11:25 PM
81
di C. S. Lewis
8,812 utenti
153 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 2.2
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
82
1,875 utenti
43 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 2.2
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 10:50 PM
83
10,694 utenti
268 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 2.15
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 05:59 PM
84
2,519 utenti
45 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 2.07
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 07:40 PM
85
4,882 utenti
121 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 2.03
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 10:59 PM
86
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
87
1,262 utenti
82 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 2
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
- Member
- hipdeep
- Spiegazioni
- 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
238 utenti
4 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1.89
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
89
di John Scalzi
4,901 utenti
430 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1.87
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
90
100 utenti
1 recensione
4
Punteggio 1.85
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
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- aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- 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
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- aethercowboy: Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
92
12,517 utenti
156 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 1.7
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
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- aethercowboy
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- aethercowboy: I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.
93
579 utenti
10 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 1.68
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: Where now? Who now? When now?
94
di John Scalzi
2,359 utenti
103 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1.67
Aggiunto 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
95
445 utenti
3 recensioni
3.1
Punteggio 1.67
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- 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."
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di John Barth
620 utenti
11 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 1.66
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.
97
1,330 utenti
28 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1.65
Aggiunto 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: It was like so, but wasn't.
98
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Spiegazioni
- aethercowboy: —Money . . . in a voice that rustled.
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- Member
- aethercowboy
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- aethercowboy: They shoot the white girl first.
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- Member
- aethercowboy
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- aethercowboy: The moment one learns English, complications set in.