First sentence of current book

ReadCentral · Post by **ReadCentral** » 18 Feb 2011, 06:30

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

---Ulysses by James Joyce

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 21 Feb 2011, 01:33

Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair.

"Skippy Dies" - Pau Murray

Creepshow09 · Post by **Creepshow09** » 21 Feb 2011, 02:47

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.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 21 Feb 2011, 03:54

'At the beginning I envied him.' Self's Punishment by Bernhard Schlink

Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 21 Feb 2011, 14:15

It was four o'clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.
"The Jungle"--Upton Sinclair

Rather apropos, considering what's going on in my neck of the woods.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 21 Feb 2011, 18:14

'I haven't laid eyes on the island in several years.'

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

laci_baby · Post by **laci_baby** » 07 Mar 2011, 15:30

"I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead."
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.

"The power of the vampire is that no one will believe in him."
Its a quote from Van Helsing in a study of vampires. I dont remember the name of the book but i remember this lovely first line.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 07 Mar 2011, 17:38

'The commander of the naval supply station at Epichos was having his morning meal when the optio in charge of the dawn watch made his report'
Simon Scarrow 'The Legion'

SteveEmmett · Post by **SteveEmmett** » 08 Mar 2011, 08:13

A warning.

Live it Again by Geoff North

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 09 Mar 2011, 01:21

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.

"The Last of the Mohicans" - James Fenimore Cooper.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 09 Mar 2011, 06:07

'Although an only child, for many years I had a brother'

Secret by Philippe Grimbert (translated by Polly McLean)

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 10 Mar 2011, 04:03

Hear the wind wailing down a chimney on the darkest night of winter.

"The Circle and the Cross" - Caiseal Mo'r.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 10 Mar 2011, 06:11

'The first case of polio that summer came early in June, right after Memorial Day, in a poor Italian neighborhood crosstown from where we lived'- Nemesis by Philip Roth