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[nny]

vimeslady's doing a first lines meme, Discworld based. I'm... embarrassed at how many of them I know. (Or think I do).


So... here's an idea. I'll post the first sentence of a book. If you know it, post another sentence from that first page, plus a first line from a different book. Then the next person does the same.

As an added challenge, see if you can make it coherent...



Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse.

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[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Captain Correlii's Mandolin!

Er, mine is "[name of the protagonist] was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it".

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Oh and I am not adding another line from CCM, because my book is at home and I can't think of anything cause I only knew that from the "Dr Iannis". :)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*grins* Fair enough.

*loves Dr Iannis beyond all reason*

Need him in milliways_bar.

[florahart]

There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT- POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before see a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

(Alice in Wonderland)

Mine is:

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

You will so know this one:

He was big enough and looked don't-fuck-with-me enough that his biggest problem was killing time. (Yes, it's the second sentence, STFU)

So here is one you won't get:

and it's a story that might bore you but you don't have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or, actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, at Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk that she ended up in bed, lost her virginity (late, she was eighteen) in Lorna Slavin's room, because she was a Freshman and had a roommate and Lorna was, she remembers, a Senior or a Junior and usually sometimes at her boyfriend's place off-campus, to who she thought was a Sophomore at N.Y.U., a film student, and up in New Hampshire just for The Dressed to Get Screwed party, or a townie. (Yes, that is the first sentence.)

[tapedeck.livejournal.com]

He had noticed in the first few days, when everything, from the slang to the bad food, was new.
'American Gods', and I only know it because someone made me read it last week. :D

There are my New Years resolutions.
1. I will help the blind across the road.
2. I will hang my trousers up.
3. I will put the sleeves back on my records.
4. I will not start smoking.
5. I will stop squeezing my spots.
6. I will be kind to the dog.
7. I will help the poor and ignorant.
8. After hearing the disgusting noises from downstairs last night, I have also vowed never to drink alcohol.
So much with the obvious, yeah?

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

'Bridget Jones' Diary'? I am not totally sure because my copy is being borrowed.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Is that the Diary of Adrian Mole (aged whatever it was)?

'Jill'
I challenge the mirror
'how much guts have you got?'
Ah, the challenges of finding something a little obscure, but not too obscure.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*coughs* Sorry, forgot to post another line from the first page.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4:
My father got the dog drunk on cherry brandy at the party last night. If the RSPCA hear about it he could get done. Eight days have gone by since Christmas Day but my mother still hasn't worn the green lurex apron I bought her for Christmas! She will get bathcubes next year.