# 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:** 42
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/822 "2019-09-25T13:50:34Z")
“Late on a hazy night in 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda told me he wanted to write a hip-hop concept album about the life of Alexander Hamilton. For a second, I thought we were sharing a drunken joke. We were probably drunk, but he wasn’t joking.” _Hamilton: The Revolution_ by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter (2016) ---
**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:** [September 25, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/823 "2019-09-25T21:52:12Z")
“As long as Freeman Dyson can remember, his thoughts have been on the stars.” _The Starship and the Cano_e, by Kenneth Brower (1978) ---
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> [@](#): > > We watched as the tornado tore through the field of sunflowers. _Full Disclosure_, Stormy Daniels with Kevin Carr O’Leary (2018) ---
**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:** [September 28, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/825 "2019-09-28T18:49:56Z")
“They crossed the border into Brittany at noon, soon afterward found themselves in an eerily silent landscape, shrouded in dense, spectral fog.” – _Falls the Shadow_, by Sharon Kay Penman ---
**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:** [September 28, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/826 "2019-09-28T23:27:26Z")
“I know that some of you reading this are convinced humans are a myth, but I am here to state that they do actually exist.” The Humans, by Matt Haig. (2013) ---
**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:** [September 30, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/827 "2019-09-30T21:30:58Z")
“Looking out over the East River from my jail cell and still running for public office, I realize that I have taken several actions in my life for which I owe public apologies.” _Pure Drivel_, by Steve Martin (1998) ---
**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:** [October 2, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/828 "2019-10-02T21:50:39Z")
“When people ask me what I do–taxi drivers, hairdressers–I tell them I work in an office.” _Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine_, by Gail Honeyman ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/829 "2019-10-03T01:34:35Z")
“I am going to try to start at the beginning, even though I know you won’t believe me.” _The Twisted Ones_, Ursula Vernon writing as T. Kingfisher ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/830 "2019-10-03T02:49:17Z")
For the KGB’s counterintelligence section, Directorate K, this was a routine bugging job. _The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War_ by Ben Macintyre ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/831 "2019-10-06T13:53:10Z")
“Do not try any of this at home.” The rest of the first para: The author of this book is an internet cartoonist, not a health or safety expert. He likes it when things catch fire or explode, which means he does not have your best interests in mind. The publisher and the author disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects resulting, directly or indirectly, from information contained in this book.Randall Munroe’s new book _How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems_. Mini review:Not that great. Boring and repetitive at times. Best read a chapter once in a while. The best chapter is the Serena Williams vs. a drone one which he posted [online](https://blog.xkcd.com/2019/08/16/serena-versus-the-drones/). ---
**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:** [October 7, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/832 "2019-10-07T18:02:57Z")
“The women came to Yale in buses, peering out the large glass windows at the men who had gathered on the sidewalk below to await their arrival.” _Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant_, by Anne Gardiner Perkins. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/833 "2019-10-08T14:14:21Z")
“The kidnapping of Patricia Hearst is very much a story of America in the 1970s, not the 1960s.” _American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst_ by Jeffrey Toobin (2016) ---
**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:** [October 8, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/834 "2019-10-08T23:39:02Z")
“Thomas dreamed he walked a familiar forest, following a time-worn path of the Tuscaroras.” _The House of Dies Drear_, by Virginia Hamilton ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/835 "2019-10-09T00:31:48Z")
“One early December afternoon in 1980 my friend Angie and I were in the little bistro we ran in north Wales, putting up the Christmas decorations.” _John_, by Cynthia Lennon ---
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“‘Paul Laurence Dunbar. That’s a mighty high-sounding name,’ whispered the Howard Street neighbors.” _Paul Laurence Dunbar: A Poet to Remember_, by Patricia C. McKissack. ---
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“The temperature of the Refuge varied from 99 degrees to 101 degrees Fahrenheit.” _The World Jones Made_, by Philip K. Dick ---
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“My longest relationship has been with chairs.” _The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me_, by Keah Brown ---
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“In the morning’s platinum light he raised his leaden head.” _The Parade_, by Dave Eggers ---
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“On the second day of January, windswept and bright, a half-blood Seminole named Sammy Tigertail dumped a dead body in the Lostmans River.” _Nature Girl_, by Carl Hiaasen. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/841 "2019-10-14T19:48:22Z")
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