Best First Lines
- Beschrijving
- 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
door Jane Austen
81,257 leden
1,373 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Score 16.02
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door C. S. Lewis
25,893 leden
256 besprekingen
4
Score 14.23
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:25 PM
- 6 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it
3
door J. R. R. Tolkien
95,958 leden
1,196 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 13.63
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
4
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
5
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
6
door Charles Dickens
37,198 leden
455 besprekingen
3.9
Score 10.98
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Ray Bradbury
54,748 leden
1,011 besprekingen
4
Score 10.35
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 5 Members
- hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: It was a pleasure to burn.
8
door William Goldman
25,174 leden
532 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 9.16
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
9
door Charles Dickens
25,213 leden
527 besprekingen
4.1
Score 8.87
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
10
door Mark Twain
43,662 leden
517 besprekingen
3.9
Score 8.53
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Kurt Vonnegut
44,587 leden
710 besprekingen
4.1
Score 8.07
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: All this happened, more or less.
12
door Daphne Du Maurier
21,053 leden
618 besprekingen
4.2
Score 7.65
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
13
door Zora Neale Hurston
19,419 leden
348 besprekingen
4
Score 7.51
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
14
44,900 leden
692 besprekingen
4.2
Score 6.7
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
15
door Leo Tolstoy
39,027 leden
627 besprekingen
4.1
Score 6.21
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
16
door Herman Melville
35,998 leden
537 besprekingen
3.8
Score 6.07
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Call me Ishmael.
17
door Shirley Jackson
10,002 leden
433 besprekingen
3.9
Score 6.03
Toegevoegd 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door J. D. Salinger
70,243 leden
1,084 besprekingen
3.8
Score 5.97
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Sylvia Plath
28,487 leden
507 besprekingen
4
Score 5.92
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:38 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Ursula K. Le Guin
16,186 leden
389 besprekingen
4
Score 5.76
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 05:58 PM
21
door Laurence Sterne
7,742 leden
115 besprekingen
3.9
Score 5.75
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:13 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door F. Scott Fitzgerald
73,221 leden
1,167 besprekingen
3.8
Score 5.71
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door James Joyce
21,451 leden
216 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 5.67
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Charles Dickens
21,351 leden
280 besprekingen
4.1
Score 5.61
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
31,000 leden
447 besprekingen
4.1
Score 5.52
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: 124 was spiteful.
27
28
door Albert Camus
35,983 leden
506 besprekingen
3.9
Score 5.34
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Mother died today.
29
door Ford Madox Ford
4,856 leden
114 besprekingen
3.8
Score 5.31
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
30
door Jean Rhys
8,587 leden
256 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 5.25
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:54 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
31
door Edith Wharton
9,627 leden
217 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 5.21
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Lloyd Alexander
7,980 leden
165 besprekingen
4
Score 5.19
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- hipdeep: Taran wanted to make a sword, but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
33
door Carson McCullers
10,838 leden
244 besprekingen
4
Score 5.19
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:52 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.
34
door Pat Conroy
5,867 leden
111 besprekingen
4.1
Score 5.1
Toegevoegd 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: My wound is geography.
35
door Alice Walker
20,046 leden
338 besprekingen
4.1
Score 5.07
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: You better not never tell nobody but God.
36
door Virginia Woolf
20,979 leden
326 besprekingen
3.9
Score 5.03
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
37
door W. Somerset Maugham
6,308 leden
118 besprekingen
4.1
Score 4.97
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:31 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.
38
door Graham Greene
6,608 leden
171 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4.94
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Daniel Defoe
23,615 leden
300 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 4.9
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:29 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door George Eliot
17,989 leden
330 besprekingen
4.2
Score 4.86
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:30 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
41
door Salman Rushdie
12,210 leden
141 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 4.67
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
42
door William Gibson
23,305 leden
377 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4.54
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
43
door Rafael Sabatini
1,768 leden
56 besprekingen
4
Score 4.33
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:51 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
44
door Vladimir Nabokov
32,069 leden
560 besprekingen
4.1
Score 4.32
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
45
door Louisa May Alcott
26,937 leden
405 besprekingen
4
Score 4.32
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 11:01 PM
46
door Nathanael West
783 leden
33 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Score 4.23
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door James Joyce
5,399 leden
58 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4.09
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Ralph Ellison
16,449 leden
212 besprekingen
4
Score 4.04
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 12:11 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: I am an invisible man.
49
door Alan Gordon
119 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2022-06-18, 08:45 AM
50
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
51
door Geoffrey Chaucer
22,305 leden
168 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 3.77
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
52
door H. G. Wells
18,722 leden
311 besprekingen
3.8
Score 3.68
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Italo Calvino
12,681 leden
259 besprekingen
4.1
Score 3.67
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
54
door L. P. Hartley
2,357 leden
40 besprekingen
4
Score 3.6
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:44 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
55
door Anita Brookner
567 leden
18 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 3.57
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
56
door Svetlana Alexievich
2,406 leden
80 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 3.5
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
57
door Thomas Pynchon
11,113 leden
195 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 3.46
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
59
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
door William Faulkner
17,491 leden
224 besprekingen
4
Score 3.34
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
62
door Hunter S. Thompson
14,496 leden
193 besprekingen
4
Score 3.28
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
63
door Franz Kafka
12,765 leden
221 besprekingen
3.9
Score 3.26
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:32 PM
64
door Marcel Proust
11,307 leden
181 besprekingen
4.2
Score 3.21
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: For a long time, I went to bed early.
65
door Ernest Hemingway
31,127 leden
501 besprekingen
3.8
Score 3.05
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Thomas Pynchon
10,870 leden
142 besprekingen
4.1
Score 3.04
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: A screaming comes across the sky.
67
door Charles Williams
791 leden
9 besprekingen
3.8
Score 3.04
Toegevoegd 2022-06-16, 10:52 AM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
68
door Jeffrey Eugenides
27,354 leden
632 besprekingen
4.1
Score 3.02
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Joseph Conrad
9,167 leden
115 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.94
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:43 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Ernest Hemingway
22,712 leden
246 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.87
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:42 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
door J. G. Ballard
3,589 leden
78 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 2.84
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.
72
door Madhuri Vijay
466 leden
18 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2.83
Toegevoegd 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: I am thirty years old and that is nothing.
73
door Robert Graves
9,277 leden
167 besprekingen
4.2
Score 2.81
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:48 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Margaret Atwood
9,168 leden
164 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2.77
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space
75
door Stephen Crane
11,365 leden
128 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Score 2.75
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:55 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
76
door Henry James
10,938 leden
125 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2.68
Toegevoegd 2022-06-16, 10:52 AM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- ManWithAnAgenda: Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
77
door Martha Wells
5,761 leden
352 besprekingen
4.1
Score 2.46
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 10:54 PM
78
door Tamsyn Muir
4,749 leden
190 besprekingen
4.1
Score 2.38
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 06:08 PM
79
80
door Nghi Vo
843 leden
30 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.25
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 11:25 PM
81
door C. S. Lewis
9,014 leden
153 besprekingen
4.2
Score 2.2
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
82
door Diana Wynne Jones
1,905 leden
43 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2.2
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 10:50 PM
83
door Ursula K. Le Guin
10,873 leden
264 besprekingen
4.1
Score 2.15
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 05:59 PM
84
door John Christopher
2,555 leden
45 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2.07
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 07:40 PM
85
door Edgar Rice Burroughs
4,948 leden
121 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.03
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 10:59 PM
86
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
87
1,290 leden
82 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
- Member
- hipdeep
- Verklaringen
- 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
door Peter De Vries
244 leden
4 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.89
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
89
door John Scalzi
4,975 leden
427 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.87
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
90
102 leden
1 bespreking
4
Score 1.85
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- 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
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
92
door Fyodor Dostoevsky
12,760 leden
155 besprekingen
4.1
Score 1.7
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.
93
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: Where now? Who now? When now?
94
door John Scalzi
2,386 leden
104 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.67
Toegevoegd 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
95
door Gertrude Stein
452 leden
3 besprekingen
3.1
Score 1.67
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- 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
door John Barth
623 leden
11 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 1.66
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.
97
door Richard Powers
1,332 leden
28 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.65
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: It was like so, but wasn't.
98
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: —Money . . . in a voice that rustled.
99
door Toni Morrison
4,954 leden
50 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.6
Toegevoegd 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: They shoot the white girl first.
100
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Verklaringen
- aethercowboy: The moment one learns English, complications set in.