# 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:** 30
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/582 "2019-01-22T12:56:38Z")
“The mystery box arrived unannounced.” _The Bullet Journal Method_ by Ryder Carroll. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/583 "2019-01-23T05:22:09Z")
“Wait a minute - I’m in first class.” _China Rich Girlfriend_, by Kevin Kwan ---
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“Dead people never stop talking.” _A Brief History of Seven Killings_, by Marlon James ---
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“Nah, never heard of him.” –_Let The Good Times Roll: My Life in the Small Faces, The Faces and The Who_, by Kenney Jones ---
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“I hadn’t so much forgot as I couldn’t bring myself to remember.” _I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings_, by Maya Angelou. ---
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“It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in office, reading a long memo that was slippng through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.” -J.K. Rowling, _Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince_ ---
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“My first remembrance of fashion was the day my mother caught me parading around our middle-class Catholic home in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston.” _Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs_, by Bill Cunningham ---
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My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral. ~ Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ---
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“Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy.” _Boy, Snow, Bird_, by Helen Oyeyemi ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/591 "2019-02-04T01:37:39Z")
“By the time he graduate from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953.” – _The Dead Zone_, by Stephen King ---
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“The first thing they always did was run you.” _Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game_, by Michael Lewis ---
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“A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statement, and test them step by step.” _ **The Logic of Scientific Discovery,** _ by Karl Popper ---
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“In a smallish London suburb where nothing much ever happened, my family gradually became the talk of the town.” Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math by Daniel Tammet ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/595 "2019-02-06T11:46:14Z")
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” My tenth trip through _The Hobbit_. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/596 "2019-02-13T17:22:25Z")
“In the summer of 1908, eleven young women with similar hairstyles posed for a photograph.” _A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War_, by Patricia Fara. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/597 "2019-02-15T19:02:53Z")
Anand Giridharadas – Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world “Her college mind heavy with the teachings of Aristotle and Goldman Sachs, Hilary Cohen knew she wanted to change the world.” ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/598 "2019-02-16T16:09:42Z")
“One of the things that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself.” _The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain_, by Bill Bryson ---
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Things are never what they seem in the wilds of deep space. ---
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"From the _East Oregonian_, June 25th, 1947: FIRE CONTROL OFFICER SPOTS ‘FLYING SAUCERS’ Kenneth Arnold Reports 9 Disc-Shaped Objects ‘Shiny, Silvery, Moved Incredibly Fast’ " – _Dreamcatcher_, by Stephen King ---
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