First sentence of current book

[Whitemore55]

All time the starting of a book should be different. It has the power to attracts to the deep of the book. It is the ability of a author. Then the book will be successful

[Maud Fitch]

"We're breakfast friends now, Alice and I"... from Having Cried Wolf written by Gretchen Shirm.

[Bighuey]

Boardman woke that morning when the partly-opened port of his sleeping-cabin closed of itself and the room-warmer begin to whir. From Solar Constant by Murray Leinster.

[Fran]

'Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works'.
- The Infinities by John Banville

[Simworm]

"The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles." - A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers

[Bighuey]

Since childhood days he had been haunted by a Wave. From The Wave by Algernon Blackwood

[Gannon]

"It was a wet evening in Paris" - "Devil May Care" by Sebastian Faulks

[SocialGirl]

The woman caught a glimpse of movement through the dusty haze ahead and wondered if it was the wolf she had seen loping in front of them earlier.... The Plains of Passage - Jean M Auel

[Poetomachia]

"On the 24th of February, 1815, the watch-tower of Notre-Dame de la Garde signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples."

The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas

[Heidi76]

Though the evening breeze had chilled his back on the way across, it hadn´t yet begun its nightly job of sweeping out from among the island´s clustered vines and palm boles the humid air that the day had left behind, and Benjamin Hurwood´s face was gleaming with sweat before the black man had led him even a dozen yards into the jungle.

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

[Maud Fitch]

The woman caught a glimpse of movement through the dusty haze ahead and wondered if it was the wolf she had seen loping in front of them earlier.... The Plains of Passage - Jean M Auel

Love it! Wonderful series!

"Only half awake, I read this telegram three times" - Red Square by Edward Topol and Fridrikh Neznansky.

[Bighuey]

It is impossible that the stupendous events which followed the disasterous invasion of the earth by the Martians should go without record, and circumstances having placed the facts at my disposal, I deem it a duty, both to posterity and to those who were witnesses of and participants in the avenging counterstroke that the earth dealt back at its ruthless enemy in the heavens, to write down the story in a connected form.
Edison's Conquest Of Mars by Garrett Putnam Serviss.-A sequil to War Of The Worlds.

[Sari58]

"The nightmares made their rounds hours ago."

Day After Night - Anita Diamant

[Bighuey]

The city of New York was electrified one evening by the news that one of its greatest favorites had been foully murdered.-- Nick Carter, Master Detective by Unknown.

[Simworm]

"The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House', even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there." Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire - J.K.Rowling