# What is the first sentence from the book you are currently reading?
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**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")
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/2991 "2024-05-09T23:44:11Z")
“The snow started two days before.”
_Ten Little Fen: A Spade/Paladin Conundrum_, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/2992 "2024-05-11T23:45:57Z")
“Jack Holloway found himself squinting, the orange sun full in his eyes.”
_Little Fuzzy_, by H. Beam Piper
“It was only a duckpond, out at the back of the farm.”
_The Ocean at the End of the Lane_, by Neil Gaiman
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/2993 "2024-05-12T13:32:43Z")
“Hi, my name is Mandy,” the waitress said, leaning over and crossing her arms for a cleavage flash.
_Beyond the Ranges_ - John Ringo with James Aidee.
A planned series which I will **not** be reading. It’s utter tripe. I made it 60 pages before I deleted it from my phone and Kindle. Thank Og a tree didn’t die for me to have read such garbage.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/2994 "2024-05-13T15:54:59Z")
First sentence from “author’s note”:
“A conversation about earthquakes made me decide it is time I tell the truth.”
First sentence:
“I got my driver’s license on February 11th, 1999.”
_Lost Man’s Lane_, by Scott Carson
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/2995 "2024-05-14T21:51:17Z")
“If you ask me why I love my job as a scientist, I can’t help but think of the first scene in _The Princess Bride_.”
_Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels & Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved_, by Kenneth Catania"
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/2996 "2024-05-18T20:35:43Z")
“Many years ago, toward the end of an arduous walking tour of the French Pyrenees, my brother and I stumbled across an engineering feet that had helped change the course of human history and shape the modern world.”
_The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization_, by Roland Ennos.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/2997 "2024-05-19T01:29:39Z")
“You see, I had this space suit. How it happened was this way.”
_Have Space Suit - Will Travel_ by Robert A. Heinlein
“Self-evident truths are especially alluring because, by definition, no one needs to explain why they are true.”
_American Dialogue_ by Joseph Ellis
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/2998 "2024-05-22T12:31:03Z")
“My father – my famous father – died in 2023 at the age of ninety.”
_You Like It Darker_, Stephen King
From the first story, Two Talented Bastids.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/2999 "2024-05-22T20:57:10Z")
“April 24, 1990, found us right back where we had been fourteen days earlier: suited up, strapped in, and ready to go, with the countdown clock stopped at T-31 seconds.”
_Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention_, by Kathryn D. Sullivan.
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3000 "2024-05-24T01:44:58Z")
Theo Hossbach lay on a cot in a military hospital in Cambrai.
**West and East** , second book in the ‘The War that Came Early’ series by Harry Turtledove.
‘Tipsified Pumgirdles Germany Novel’ was the wording of the telegram which had Mr Webb reaching for his codebook on 5 August 1914.
_World War I: The African Front_, by Edward Paice
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3001 "2024-05-27T17:34:07Z")
“Hello. We’re Round Peg/Round Hole Recruitment.”
_Halting State_, by Charles Stross
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3002 "2024-05-28T02:47:55Z")
“When Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus were kids, their fathers worked together at the Coleman Candy plant and carried the stench of warm chocolate back home with them.”
_Mystic River_ by Dennis Lehane
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### Author:  [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2024, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3003 "2024-05-28T05:37:25Z")
“A fuse had blown in Swindon, so the south-west network ground to a halt.”
_Dead Lions_, Mick Herron
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3004 "2024-05-29T18:31:59Z")
“If you ask six different monks the question of which godly domain robot consciousness belongs to, you’ll get seven different answers.”
_A Psalm for the Wild-Built_ by Becky Chambers
“To be human is to be a survivor.”
_Eager_ by Ben Goldfarb
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3005 "2024-05-30T16:00:31Z")
“Come to bed, Mouse. I know how to cheer you up,” he says.
_Annie Bot_, by Sierra Greer
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3006 "2024-05-30T20:36:55Z")
“A cool spring breeze swept over the Camden and Philadelphia Steamboat ferry as it chugged its way across the Delaware River toward the city of Philadelphia.”
_The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America’s First Great Cookery Challenge_, by Becky Libourel Diamond
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3007 "2024-06-03T22:28:47Z")
“The hustle has always been with me.”
_Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street_, by Cin Fabre’
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3008 "2024-06-06T21:28:58Z")
“I buried Ramon today, after losing him last week to his Tantalus 3 addiction.”
_Broadway Revival_, by Laura Frankos
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3009 "2024-06-08T22:00:23Z")
“Who are the humans?” _Some Desperate Glory_ by Emily Tesh
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/3010 "2024-06-09T13:35:23Z")
“Barefoot, I’ve walked this path by night for nearly twenty years, most of my life it seems, the earth pressing up against the arch of my foot.”
_Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses_, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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