September 2011
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“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want...”
– J D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
May 2011
1 post
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“A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.”
– John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
March 2011
2 posts
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“In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans...”
– Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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“Although his father had imagined for him a brilliant future in the army, Hervé...”
– Alessandro Baricco, Silk
February 2011
1 post
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“All this happened, more or less.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
August 2010
1 post
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“‘What’s it going to be then, eh?’”
– Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
April 2010
1 post
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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that...”
– F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
February 2010
1 post
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“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
January 2010
1 post
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“My name is Kathy H.”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
November 2009
13 posts
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
– J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
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“‘And don’t forget,’ my father would say, as if he expected me...”
– Graham Swift, Waterland
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“The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding...”
– H G Wells, The Time Machine
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“We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.”
– C S Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
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“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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“In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted...”
– Patrick Süskind, Perfume
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“Mother died today.”
– Albert Camus, The Outsider
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“Once upon a time in Westphalia, in the castle of Monsieur the Baron von...”
– Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism
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“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the...”
– Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
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“Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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“A child wants to see.”
– Julian Barnes, Arthur & George
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“Somebody must have made a false accusation against Josef K., for he was arrested...”
– Franz Kafka, The Trial
October 2009
10 posts
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“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the...”
– Paul Auster, City of Glass
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“On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales,...”
– T H White, The Sword In The Stone
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“The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began...”
– William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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“The play - for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets,...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement
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“Mr Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those...”
– Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
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“Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one...”
– Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Northern Lights
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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“Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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“Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more...”
– Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
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“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy...”
– Jane Austen, Emma