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The first sentence in the book you're reading

In winter Hammerfest is a thirty-hour ride by bus from Oslo, though why anyone would want to go there in winter is a question worth considering.
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Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson.
 
Fantasy Moon said:
"The flash projected the outline of the hanged man onto the wall."
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
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Tell me what you thought of the book when you're done. I read it and loved all the information about Dumas, who is like a hobby for me, but I felt that he had little to do with the story and was just to keep the reader entertained, kind of like all that extra info in Dan Brown's books.
 
VTChEwbecca said:
Good book. My husband is in advertising (specifically, he writes copy), so I thought the description of copy-writing at that time interesting, as was the mystery.
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I've just finished the book and it was really good. Everything's related, just the way I like it... Even the stuff you think is not important, in the end matters to the plot!!!;)
 
They traveled the roads and byways of the West, unhurriedly and with no set itinerary, changing their route according to the whim of the moment, the premonitory sign of a flock of birds, the lure of an unknown name.
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The Infinite Plan, by Isabel Allende
 
'The play - for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper - was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch.'

Atonement - Ian McEwen
 
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,--a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.
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The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 
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