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first lines of books

322 replies

Blandmum · 15/02/2006 17:08

Nice easy one to start us all off

'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'

Book and Author then you give one.

No googling allowed

OP posts:
JonesTheSteam · 15/02/2006 22:02

expat - Gone With The Wind - Margaret
Mitchell

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 22:02

gotta be gone with the winde

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 22:02

God, the relief...

FrannyandZooey · 15/02/2006 22:02

tell you, don't tell you....pah

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 22:02

where's the clue to yours

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 22:02

Go on, f&z - you have a go!

JonesTheSteam · 15/02/2006 22:03

"Wars came early to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund."

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 22:03

aw don;t go in a sulk FAZ, why don;t you do one?

Lonelymum · 15/02/2006 22:05

PMSL that my Meggie Cleary one got most of you! You really are literature lovers if you don't know The Thorn Birds! Well done JonestheSteam (or shame on you, I don't know which) for knowing it.

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 22:05

Sorry, my clue:

You usually associate the name with jewellery, not food.

goldstarlover · 15/02/2006 22:05

OI FANNY! get your fanny back in here now!

guess mine!!!!!!!!

"It was love at first sight"

a well-known book, but maybe not a memorable first line! lol

FrannyandZooey · 15/02/2006 22:05

I haven't read the thread so I don't know what's been done...

"I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped."

FrannyandZooey · 15/02/2006 22:06

Oops sorry starlover....hmmmm....

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 22:06

Empire of the Sun, JG Ballard.

JonesTheSteam · 15/02/2006 22:06

Well done SL!

JanH · 15/02/2006 22:07

Must be Breakfast at Tiffanys, moo (not having seen your quote!!!)

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 15/02/2006 22:07

SL - is that Chocolat?
easy one: I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

FrannyandZooey · 15/02/2006 22:07

Starlover is it a comedy?

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 22:07

The clue was too obvious wasn't it? Well done Jan! I could only think of George Peppard and Moon River...

expatinscotland · 15/02/2006 22:08

Empire of the Sun, Jones.

Hazellnut · 15/02/2006 22:08

sorry - went to have dinner - Jodee was right with mine... off to find a harder one....

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 22:08

F&Z The Crow Road or another Iain Banks?
SL - cryptic, still no wiser

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 22:08

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 22:09

Jan got it , Mazzy - Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote.

JanH · 15/02/2006 22:09

The only first line I know (apart from Pride and P and 2 cities) is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" which is the biggest giveaway in the world!