What Is The First Sentence...

[Khandro]

..... of the book you are presently reading? I'll start with.... err, no someone else start please, I'll tell you later

[naomi24]

Don't know .... I would have to go and get the book to find out and I can't be bothered. Something about Perseus though. .. so I'll make it up. Once upon a time there was this bloke called Perseus who decapitated the Gorgon Medusa .... she of the snake hair .... and managed to do it without being turned to stone by her stoney gaze ....

[brainiac]

'One of the things that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself.'

[pastafreak]

"There was once an inn that sat peacefully on the bank of the Thames at Radcot, a long days walk from the source."

[puzzled54]

Here is Edward bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump

[Peter Pedant]

The sky over london was glorious - ochre and madder ...

[Buenchico]

I could tell you that it's “Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes" but I suspect that you might realise that I'm not really reading 'War and Peace' ;-)

The real answer is far more mundane: "This is how the story goes".
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[237SJ]

"It was the summer the world stopped turning on the spiral of history, the summer we spent waiting for the world to begin again, when the sun hung above the village and poured a hot glue that slowed everything down"

[Hopkirk]

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.



(only joking)

[Canary42]

"The young woman standing in front of him was smiling."

[Barmaid]

Two miracles occurred that October, the October of my fifteenth birthday.

[Smowball]

The two things I miss most about being a vet in Ireland is the effervescent hues of green, and the rain........

[lady-janine]

One sunny April day I set out to find Charles. Rue de Monceau is a long Patisian street bisected by the grand boulevard Malesherbes that charges off towards the boulevard Pereire.

[lady-janine]

Parisian street - sorry.

[sanmac]

Jack Rosenblum switched off the wireless and nestled back into his leather armchair.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Well before his arrival in Cincinnati, everyone knew that Chip Bingley was looking for a wife.

[Buenchico]

Ruddy 'eck, Lady-J!

Somebody actually reads Costa Prize-winning books then! I thought that they were just for putting on one's bookshelf, so that one could look 'literate' ;-)

[bunkmoreland]

I like yours Pasta reminds me of "Rebecca"

[Mozz71]

I'm listening on Audible, so without going back to the start and losing my place, I couldn't tell you.

[Smowball]

Nobody guess what mine is yet?? Lol

[Ken4155]

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. I've begun re-reading the entire Dark Tower series by Stephen King and that is the opening line of the first book, The Gunslinger.