# What is the first sentence from the book you are currently reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [April 20, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858 "2017-04-20T16:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 104
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Fashions in writing change. Here’s info about the convention [Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril-Ya_Bazaar_and_Fete) Note that there are still products sold named for concepts from old B-L’s works ---
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“Imagine you are holding a snow globe in your hand and the object inside is not a place you have been to on holiday or a festive bauble but a representation of where you work.” _The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future_, by Julia Hobsbawm ---
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“Once upon a time, twice upon a time, all the way up to six, and I am seven.” _Anthropocene Rag_, by Alex Irvine ---
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“In the spring of 1994, I made the second unluckiest bet in Hollywood history.” _Audience-Ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love_ (Kevin Goetz with Darlene Hayman) ---
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“This will be a good weekend for reading.” _Big Stone Gap_ by Adriana Trigiani ---
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“I raised myself on my elbow and called through the open door into the other wagon-lit: ‘My dear, I know I have inconvenienced you terribly by making you take your holiday now, and I know you did not really want to come to Yugoslavia at all.’” -Rebecca West, _Black Lamb and Grey Falcon_ ---
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“The kidney bloomed, going from a miserable grey to many shades of vital red as blood rushed through its newly connected vessels.” _Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery_, by Paul Craddock. ---
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“These voyages are for Terry, whose own was too brief; we do not speak of grief.” _Star Trek: The New Voyages 2_ ed. by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath “I like to probe the darkness at the edges of our nation’s history. Instead of the triumphs, I’m most interested in the struggle.” _Travels with George_ by Nathaniel Philbrick “The volcano that had reared Tratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years.” _Childhood’s End_ by Arthur C. Clarke ---
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“Notwithstanding the large success of my medical practice of late, my losses have been great these last few years.” _The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Based on the Original Radio Plays by Denis Green and Anthony Boucher_, by Ken Greenwald. (Note that the above sentence is from the first story, “The Adventure of the Second Generation.”) ---
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“As an independent filmmaker, David Blair had presented his movies at plenty of festivals and college campuses, where the screening ritual was well established.” _Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix_, by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski. ---
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“I have a theory.” _Extreme Blindside_, by Leslea Wahl ---
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“The first sound Paul Simon fell in love with was the crack of a baseball against a Louisville Slugger, preferably one swung by a member of his beloved New York Yankees.” _Paul Simon - The Life_, by Robert Hilburn ---
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“What is there to recommend this world?” _Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems_, by Nikki Grimes ---
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“You know how it is there early in the morning in Havana with the bums still asleep against the walls of the buildings; before even the ice wagons come by with ice for the bars?” – _To Have and Have Not_, by Ernest Hemingway ---
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“Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A vampire, a werewolf, and a demon walk into a bar…” _All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault_, by James Alan Gardner ---
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“Baba’s tales of Dhaka were love stories.” _Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family_, by Madhushree Ghosh. ---
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I think it’s ready, Ellie says. (sic) _The Fell_, by Sarah Moss ---
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“People often ask me if music or acting runs in my family, and the answer is no.” _Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life_, by Sutton Foster ---
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“I have a ball of starlight inside me.” _Victories Greater than Death_, by Charlie Jane Anders ---
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