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Oct 16, 2017 10:17 AM
MountainApe
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WindupByrd
Y’all need to read the first four sentences from Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. You will not be disappointed.
anvilon
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
rouverius
... as dead as a door-nail.
anvilon
Muppet Christmas Carol!!!
boopsyournose
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
Fonzcorp
Nice.
OffTheFrontRimAndIN
Literally lol'd. thanks.
rouverius
"He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew...
rouverius
... in the tops of the pine trees. The mountainside sloped gently where he lay..." - For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
spentfivesecondsfindingausername
And then the murders began...
XBSJ
...and therefore, do not send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
bcy909
Howls moving castle is a book??? I had no idea
imadethiswheniwastooyoungshootme
Wait really? It's really good, and has two sequels. You should check it out! (iirc a couple other miyazaki films are from books too)
Tigergurke
The book is great and different from the movie. I love book-Sophie so much more!
refreshmentsandnarcotics
A really, really good book. Check it out sometime!
monsterchar
My favorite Miyazaki movie and I never knew
Zahnradfee
It's by an irish write. But the story is different fromt he movie. But worth a read. It's sweet.
kaf27033
"I'm pretty much fucked" - The Martian
spentfivesecondsfindingausername
And then the murders began...
ConductorOfTheStruggleTrain
Great book and the movie actually did it justice
JLPDayton72
Yes! That one belongs on there!
CydeFX
One of my favorites -
Thirdy
Douglas Adams got in twice, nice! His books are very quoteable, and I often think "oh exactly that was parodised in Hitchhikers guide!"
theyar
Some of these are great books but not necessarily meaningful first lines.
IDidNaht
"It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts."
Ninjaofshadow
Look, I didnt want to be a half-blood. - Percy Jackson
doggo
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
dposton70
Thank you!
squeakums
I just finished it and surprisingly found it rather disappointing. A cool setting though!
justsignedupforthishit
In the beginning...God created the heavens and the earth...And then the murders began.
spentfivesecondsfindingausername
Yay!
IAlwaysUpvoteHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
I always. ALWAYS upvote Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy.
Fonzcorp
"Call me Ishmael, dummy."
JakeFoz
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First
CaesarSaladFingers
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous insect
Cenderic
Just read this for Uni, glad someone smarter than me was there to point out the Marxist reading. being a giant bug=free of labour, yay(!)
shibbytothelibby
Thank you! I was gonna add this. IMO one of the greatest opening lines ever.
spentfivesecondsfindingausername
And then the murders began...
JamesBonnyman
Nah too good.
JamesBonnyman
"I could not see you, the glass was frosted"
IGoodSurgeonZeBest
Metamorphosis!
RisingPhoenix92
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in need of a long shower must be in want of a beer.
Youhadmeathello
What, no "It was a Dark and Stormy Night" ?
spentfivesecondsfindingausername
And then the murders began...
0rian
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure. -The Stranger
jsmi813
Such a weird book, too abstract for me lol
ceemars
YESSSS! Thank you.
sandmangrif
The young boys came early to the hanging. ~Pillars of the Earth
spentfivesecondsfindingausername
And then the murders began...
maddiepilz
The hunger games? O_õ
LychFinderGeneral
The book is actually excellent to study if you want to learn how to write 21st century fiction.
DontTalkToMeOrMyWaifuEverAgain
The book was actually really good. Movie does an aweful job at portraying suffering like the books did
maelthra
It's not the worst I've read, but Katniss, the supposed protaganist of the book, makes exactly one decision on her own, which is annoying.
maddiepilz
I didn't like the book, especially the second and third ones were quite bad in my opinion.
jsmi813
On a book to film scale though, the series was pretty well represented imo
DontTalkToMeOrMyWaifuEverAgain
It was but it was the classic case of the movie not being able to properly portray the emotions fully like the books
Floofleboops
The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime is absolutely amazing, I definitely recommend everyone give it a read
Nineteenletterslong
"It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house.
Nineteenletterslong
Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream.
Nineteenletterslong
But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog."
spentfivesecondsfindingausername
And then the murders began...
bcy909
That's about aspergers isn't it?
Floofleboops
Yeah kinda, it's done as if the boy with aspergers has written it himself as a murder mystery
GneissPags
Autism/Aspergers. Author was someone who worked w troubled youths w disorder directly.
tharizdunator
You go back and put Neuromancer in the right now!
TerritorialRotbart
Read this one for a literature class last semester, it was definitely a really great book.
domenick91
I don't know why, but it bothers me that Hunger Games is on the same list as 2001 yet the two books/movies are soo not on the same level
DontTalkToMeOrMyWaifuEverAgain
Movies were aweful, books were pretty decent
domenick91
Of what?
domenick91
Hungar Games?
nugo520
why does no one ever put war of the worlds on these things, it has one of the best opening monologues in literature and sci fi historty
HenryLimpet
If you do it, then someone will have.
nugo520
i would but i don't know how XD
betamail
No-one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that human affairs were being watched on the timeless world of space...
kvakkerakk
Read it in Burton's voice.
nugo520
thank you so much dude, more people need to recognise how great this book really is and its place in history
FrozenInCarbonite
The man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.
twobuy
That whole series was Stephen King masturbating into his own mouth and that line was the money shot.
tippyojay
and thus a movie studio proceeded to ruin the fuck out of it's memory...
TowerJunkie
Looked for this. Did not see. Was disappoint.
notsocks
This is the one that I most expected
LaPiscinaDeLaMuerte
I was looking through this trying to find this. I need to read those books again.
andtheGunslingerfollowed
^^
lukeiamyourusername
I was looking for this first line.
qinop
Thanks. c:
imrollingabigdonutandtheresasnakewearingavest
I'm reading this now! Halfway through the 3rd book and it's amazing
spentfivesecondsfindingausername
And then the murders began...
LeeFenix
so weird how simple yet satisfying that line is.
Frooster
And after finishing the series, the line becomes even more powerful!
iTztheKaiser
Agreed!
soulman2100
sorry but sauce
BeensBeens
Dark Tower
Chaple
"The Gunslinger" Dark Tower series book 1 by Stephen King.
TheStorytellerComic
Lord, don't watch the movie.
soulman2100
i will read the book first
cheeseguy3412
"The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault!" - Harry Dresden.
TheExperiencedNoob
Just started reading these, amazing
ImperialWatch
Same series?
Sqwuid
They get so fucking good dude.
Pandageddon
I'm on the 9th one. It gets wild.
TheStorytellerComic
I shudder when I think of how badly the book was bastardized int he movie, especially because Idris Elba was good.
CaptainCasserole
It was awful
NoSleepTilBrooklyn
That movie had nothing to do with the book but the name. Such a waste.
icanhearjimi
It was a "sequel" the books or something.
NoSleepTilBrooklyn
Yeah, but that could have meant anything. They had an amazing universe to build a story with, and they went with tired, YA bullshit.
icanhearjimi
Sure did. It was pretty weak. Movie is the wrong medium for the story though, it needs a GoT style series.
DonSlyone
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents...
DonSlyone
...We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far...
DonSlyone
...The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of...
DonSlyone
..dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein that we shall either go mad...
DonSlyone
from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” H.P Lovecraft; Call of Cthulhu
Sigimund
YES! Lovecraft doesn't get enough credit for his prose.
LipMyStockings
'Catcher in the rye' is one of the worst books I've ever read
TheEncrypter
You must have a lot of objects filling space on your bookshelf.
LesserSam
It's massively overrated but I definitely think it's still worth reading...if only mostly for the cultural touchstone aspect of it.
Delyruin
It's the most "love it or hate it" thing I've ever come across
Benorf
I agree wholeheartedly. The protagonist is so goddamn punchable
daguq
Aged 15 my entire class voted to stop reading it and to study a different book.
Thisismyusernamenotyoursitsmine
I thought it was trash as well.
TheEvilOverLordOfFlowers
I disagree. Reading it as a teenager really puts your future in perspective where you don't want to end up like Holden but at the same 1/?
TheEvilOverLordOfFlowers
Time you do. I remember hating it at first since I was forced to read it for school and then I just started reading ahead and 2/?
TheEvilOverLordOfFlowers
Getting into it. The protagonist is a shithead who's a hypocrite but you got to understand he obviously has problems. It also gave 3/?
TheEvilOverLordOfFlowers
The new title of "teenager" a book for its own to describe the teenage angst and the rebellious nature
Diogenes3000
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields(1/4)
Diogenes3000
with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water(2/4
Diogenes3000
but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by (3/4)
Diogenes3000
the fire and watches him. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
spentfivesecondsfindingausername
And then the murders began...
Diogenes3000
The entire book is basically scalping, walking, drinking, and spitting. Yet somehow its still amazing