Best First Lines
- Beschreibung
- Novels that have excellent or memorable first lines. Started from American Book Review's 100 Best First Lines from Novels (http://americanbookreview.org/100bestlines.asp)
1
von Jane Austen
80,681 Mitglieder
1,369 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Bewertung 16.02
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
2
von C. S. Lewis
25,416 Mitglieder
258 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 14.23
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:25 PM
- 6 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it
3
von J. R. R. Tolkien
94,442 Mitglieder
1,189 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Bewertung 13.63
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
4
von Dodie Smith
9,207 Mitglieder
294 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 11.75
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
5
von George Orwell
82,006 Mitglieder
1,272 Rezensionen
4.2
Bewertung 11.2
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
6
von Charles Dickens
36,680 Mitglieder
456 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 10.98
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
7
von Ray Bradbury
53,950 Mitglieder
999 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 10.35
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 5 Members
- hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: It was a pleasure to burn.
8
von William Goldman
24,855 Mitglieder
530 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Bewertung 9.16
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
9
von Charles Dickens
24,706 Mitglieder
525 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 8.87
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
10
von Mark Twain
43,014 Mitglieder
519 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 8.53
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
11
von Kurt Vonnegut
44,029 Mitglieder
706 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 8.07
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: All this happened, more or less.
12
20,742 Mitglieder
613 Rezensionen
4.2
Bewertung 7.65
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
13
19,139 Mitglieder
347 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 7.51
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
14
44,426 Mitglieder
696 Rezensionen
4.2
Bewertung 6.7
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
15
von Leo Tolstoy
38,497 Mitglieder
630 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 6.21
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
16
von Herman Melville
35,588 Mitglieder
542 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 6.07
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Call me Ishmael.
17
von Shirley Jackson
9,761 Mitglieder
433 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 6.03
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- ManWithAnAgenda: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
18
von J. D. Salinger
69,578 Mitglieder
1,081 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 5.97
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
19
von Sylvia Plath
28,099 Mitglieder
503 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 5.92
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:38 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
20
15,972 Mitglieder
384 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 5.76
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 05:58 PM
21
von Laurence Sterne
7,676 Mitglieder
113 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 5.75
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:13 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.
22
72,217 Mitglieder
1,170 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 5.71
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
23
von James Joyce
21,210 Mitglieder
217 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 5.67
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
24
von Charles Dickens
20,688 Mitglieder
276 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 5.61
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
25
30,542 Mitglieder
450 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 5.52
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.
26
von Toni Morrison
22,855 Mitglieder
408 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 5.49
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: 124 was spiteful.
27
von J. M. Barrie
18,936 Mitglieder
326 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 5.47
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 11:29 PM
28
von Albert Camus
35,547 Mitglieder
507 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 5.34
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Mother died today.
29
von Ford Madox Ford
4,788 Mitglieder
115 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 5.31
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
30
von Jean Rhys
8,466 Mitglieder
254 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Bewertung 5.25
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:54 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
31
von Edith Wharton
9,498 Mitglieder
214 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Bewertung 5.21
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
32
von Lloyd Alexander
7,906 Mitglieder
168 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 5.19
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- hipdeep: Taran wanted to make a sword, but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
33
von Carson McCullers
10,725 Mitglieder
243 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 5.19
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:52 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.
34
von Pat Conroy
5,821 Mitglieder
108 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 5.1
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- ManWithAnAgenda: My wound is geography.
35
von Alice Walker
19,746 Mitglieder
336 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 5.07
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: You better not never tell nobody but God.
36
von Virginia Woolf
20,643 Mitglieder
330 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 5.03
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
37
6,223 Mitglieder
115 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 4.97
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:31 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.
38
von Graham Greene
6,528 Mitglieder
171 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 4.94
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
39
von Daniel Defoe
23,224 Mitglieder
323 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Bewertung 4.9
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:29 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.
40
von George Eliot
17,720 Mitglieder
331 Rezensionen
4.2
Bewertung 4.86
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:30 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
41
von Salman Rushdie
12,051 Mitglieder
139 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 4.67
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
42
von William Gibson
23,068 Mitglieder
379 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 4.54
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
43
von Rafael Sabatini
1,748 Mitglieder
55 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 4.33
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:51 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
44
von Vladimir Nabokov
31,713 Mitglieder
564 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 4.32
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
45
26,458 Mitglieder
400 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 4.32
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 11:01 PM
46
von Nathanael West
775 Mitglieder
33 Rezensionen
½ 3.4
Bewertung 4.23
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.
47
von James Joyce
5,332 Mitglieder
59 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 4.09
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
48
von Ralph Ellison
16,183 Mitglieder
212 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 4.04
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:11 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: I am an invisible man.
49
von Alan Gordon
118 Mitglieder
3 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 4
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-18, 08:45 AM
50
von Franz Kafka
19,905 Mitglieder
237 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 3.79
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:10 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
51
von Geoffrey Chaucer
22,000 Mitglieder
169 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 3.77
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
52
von H. G. Wells
18,409 Mitglieder
309 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 3.68
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- hipdeep: No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were being scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
53
von Italo Calvino
12,522 Mitglieder
258 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 3.67
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
54
von L. P. Hartley
2,330 Mitglieder
38 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 3.6
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:44 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
55
von Anita Brookner
558 Mitglieder
18 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Bewertung 3.57
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
56
2,343 Mitglieder
78 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Bewertung 3.5
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
57
von Thomas Pynchon
10,993 Mitglieder
194 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 3.46
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.
58
von James Joyce
24,090 Mitglieder
380 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 3.44
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
59
von Virginia Woolf
10,622 Mitglieder
175 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 3.38
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
60
von Paul Auster
1,452 Mitglieder
36 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 3.37
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
61
von William Faulkner
17,285 Mitglieder
226 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 3.34
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
62
14,407 Mitglieder
192 Rezensionen
4
Bewertung 3.28
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
63
von Franz Kafka
12,479 Mitglieder
221 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 3.26
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:32 PM
64
von Marcel Proust
11,142 Mitglieder
183 Rezensionen
4.2
Bewertung 3.21
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: For a long time, I went to bed early.
65
von Ernest Hemingway
30,739 Mitglieder
505 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 3.05
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
66
von Thomas Pynchon
10,759 Mitglieder
142 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 3.04
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: A screaming comes across the sky.
67
von Charles Williams
776 Mitglieder
9 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 3.04
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-16, 10:52 AM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- ManWithAnAgenda: The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
68
27,153 Mitglieder
631 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 3.02
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
69
von Joseph Conrad
9,045 Mitglieder
115 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 2.94
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:43 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
70
von Ernest Hemingway
22,422 Mitglieder
243 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 2.87
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:42 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.
71
von J. G. Ballard
3,549 Mitglieder
77 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Bewertung 2.84
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.
72
von Madhuri Vijay
456 Mitglieder
18 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 2.83
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- ManWithAnAgenda: I am thirty years old and that is nothing.
73
von Robert Graves
9,181 Mitglieder
168 Rezensionen
4.2
Bewertung 2.81
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:48 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot," or "That Claudius," or "Claudius the Stammerer," or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius," am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled.
74
von Margaret Atwood
9,112 Mitglieder
163 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 2.77
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space
75
von Stephen Crane
11,165 Mitglieder
128 Rezensionen
½ 3.4
Bewertung 2.75
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:55 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
76
von Henry James
10,830 Mitglieder
125 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 2.68
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-16, 10:52 AM
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- ManWithAnAgenda
- Erklärungen
- ManWithAnAgenda: Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
77
von Martha Wells
5,506 Mitglieder
345 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 2.46
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 10:54 PM
78
von Tamsyn Muir
4,466 Mitglieder
180 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 2.38
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 06:08 PM
79
von Tessa Gratton
129 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 2.31
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 11:21 PM
80
von Nghi Vo
807 Mitglieder
29 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 2.25
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 11:25 PM
81
von C. S. Lewis
8,818 Mitglieder
153 Rezensionen
4.2
Bewertung 2.2
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
82
1,875 Mitglieder
43 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 2.2
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 10:50 PM
83
10,710 Mitglieder
268 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 2.15
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 05:59 PM
84
von John Christopher
2,521 Mitglieder
45 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 2.07
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 07:40 PM
85
4,884 Mitglieder
121 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Bewertung 2.03
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 10:59 PM
86
von Samuel Beckett
1,661 Mitglieder
25 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 2.03
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
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- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
87
1,266 Mitglieder
82 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Bewertung 2
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
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- hipdeep
- Erklärungen
- hipdeep: Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken, rather nice-looking gentleman by the name of Enrico Fermi was born into a family so overprotective that he felt compelled to invent the atomic bomb.
88
von Peter De Vries
238 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 1.89
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
89
von John Scalzi
4,905 Mitglieder
430 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 1.87
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
90
100 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
4
Bewertung 1.85
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
91
von Ha Jin
4,068 Mitglieder
81 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Bewertung 1.72
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
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- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
92
12,533 Mitglieder
156 Rezensionen
4.1
Bewertung 1.7
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.
93
von Samuel Beckett
580 Mitglieder
10 Rezensionen
3.9
Bewertung 1.68
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Where now? Who now? When now?
94
von John Scalzi
2,361 Mitglieder
103 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 1.67
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
95
von Gertrude Stein
445 Mitglieder
3 Rezensionen
3.1
Bewertung 1.67
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. "Stop!" cried the groaning old man at last, "Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree."
96
von John Barth
620 Mitglieder
11 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Bewertung 1.66
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.
97
von Richard Powers
1,330 Mitglieder
28 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 1.65
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: It was like so, but wasn't.
98
von William Gaddis
1,374 Mitglieder
19 Rezensionen
4.2
Bewertung 1.63
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: —Money . . . in a voice that rustled.
99
von Toni Morrison
4,894 Mitglieder
49 Rezensionen
3.8
Bewertung 1.6
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
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- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: They shoot the white girl first.
100
von Felipe Alfau
192 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
½ 3.4
Bewertung 1.58
Hinzugefügt 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
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- aethercowboy
- Erklärungen
- aethercowboy: The moment one learns English, complications set in.