# 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:** 61
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/1206 "2020-08-29T01:04:26Z")
Stink Yes, everyone know Bigfoot smell like shit. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/1207 "2020-08-30T21:45:03Z")
“There are those who say that life is a game of chance, and considering some of the things that have happened to me, I’d probably be inclined to agree.” _Best in Show_ by Laurien Berenson ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/1208 "2020-08-30T23:17:58Z")
“I still get nightmares” ---
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It is customary here to name the book and author. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/1210 "2020-08-30T23:41:07Z")
“I still get nightmares” House of Leaves by Mark z. Danielewski ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/1211 "2020-08-31T02:35:22Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Stink > > Yes, everyone know Bigfoot smell like shit. > **[Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351289.Me_Write_Book)** > > Like many reclusive celebrities, Big Foot is misunderst… ---
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“There was something fucked up about a job where cocaine was overlooked, but cigarettes would get you fired.” _Freak_ by Jennifer Hillier ---
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In early summer 1900, Roger Keyes went for a walk. _The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China_ by David Silbey ---
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“In the dim light, a small group of people talk in hushed voices as if entering a church, spellbound by the paintings on the rock wall: bison and mammoth and horse, colored with red ochre made from dirt and charcoal and bound with saliva and animal fat.” _Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine_ by Alan Lightman ---
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“When Jesus of Nazareth hung dying on his cross, the _volcryn_ passed within a year of his agony, headed outward.” _Nightflyers_ by George R.R. Martin ---
**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 3, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-first-sentence-from-the-book-you-are-currently-reading/784858/1216 "2020-09-03T14:38:01Z")
" ‘Are you Miss Damaris Boyd, a terror on two feet?’ the railroad conductor asked me." _By Crumbs, It’s Mine!_ by Patricia Beatty ---
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“On the morning of October 1, 1907, the hotel bellmen and front desk staff were scurrying about the marble lobby, smoothing their uniforms and making final preparations.” _The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel_, by Julie Satow ---
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“In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” _A Great Improvisation_ by Stacy Schiff ---
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“Chris Mankowski’s last day on the job, two in the afternoon, two hours to go, he got a call to dispose of a bomb.” _Freaky Deaky_ by Elmore Leonard ---
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“But surely Your Excellency can’t dispute the facts of the matter!” _Tales of the Vulgar Unicorn_, ed. by Robert Lynn Asprin ---
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“Tyler couldn’t help checking the time again.” _Three Laws Lethal_ by David Walton “During the Late Stone Age, about 27,000 years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers in the Pavlov Hills, in what is now the Czech Republic, looked around the landscape in which they lived and realized that if they had some means by which they could easily find their favorite hunting grounds and the best places in which to camp, then they would have a better chance of survival.” _Life from Above: Epic Stories of the Natural World_, by Michael Bright and Chloe Sarosh ---
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“A storm was coming to the Bighorn Mountains.” _Winterkill_, by C.J. Box ---
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“Telle Whitney started college–in 1973, at the University of Utah–without knowing what she wanted to be when she grew up.” _Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley_, by Emily Chang ---
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I knelt in the snow in front of my great-great-great-great-grandfather’s gravestone, took my bristle brush and cleaned the surface, working the bristles deep into each engraved letter." _Backwater_, by Joan Bauer ---
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