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The first sentence in the book you're reading

He had to have planned it because when we drove onto the dock the boat was there and the engine was running and you could see the water churning up phosphorescence in the river, which was the only light there was because there was no moon, nor no electric light either in the shack where the dockmaster should have been sitting, nor on the boat itself, and certainly not from the car, yet everyone knew where everything was, and when the big Packard came down the ramp Mickey the driver braked it so that the wheels hardly rattled the boards, and when he pulled up alongside the gangway the doors were already open and they hustled Bo and the girl upside before they even made a shadow in all that darkness.



Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
 
Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child:

"The sounds drifted over the long green lawn, so faint they could have been the crying of ravens in the nearby wood, or the distant braying of a mule on the farm across the brown river."
 
The Play for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on it's side, and lined the collection box in read crepe paper was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch.


Atonement by Ian McEwan
 
Yasunari Kawabata-Snow Country



"The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country."
 
He was sitting on his heels in the cold light of the dawn, drawing pale flames through a handful of twigs and dry crushed grass.

The Brave Cowboy
 
Hi there Libra, just under 200 pages gone and we're hanging on in there. To be honest, what attracted me to this was a recent explosion of (personal) interest in things Japanese. (I'm even trying to learn a bit of the lingo). I became intrigued in Japanese history as expressed particularly in the cinema of Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Kagemusha, etc.) and have been devouring anything and everything film and/or book related since (even have the box-set of TV adaptation of Shogun sitting appetisingly on the shelf in front of me). Anyway, I am particularly taken with how Clavell's Dutch Protestant and Portugese/Spanish Catholic characters demonstrate a constant, albeit rather forced, bewilderment at the natives and their customs. However, I've spent a little too long at sea for my liking, riding out storm after storm, but hold on... land ahoy!
 
how it was I quote before Pim with Pim after Pim how it is three parts I say it as I hear it
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Still the same first sentence, as I am still with Samuel Beckett's How It Is.
After many months spent on only 24 pages, it finally makes sense. :eek:
 
"Two tires fly. Two wail.
A bamboo grove, all chopped down
From it, warring songs.
...Is the best that Corporal Bobby Shaftoe can do on short notice - he's standing on the running board, gripping his Springfield with one hand and the rearview mirror with the other, so counting the syllables on his fingers is out of the question."

lol, writing haiku's while being fired at... that's just one sentence because the haiku doesn't count. It's a really intense opening.
 
Godzilla said:
"Two tires fly. Two wail.
A bamboo grove, all chopped down
From it, warring songs.
...Is the best that Corporal Bobby Shaftoe can do on short notice - he's standing on the running board, gripping his Springfield with one hand and the rearview mirror with the other, so counting the syllables on his fingers is out of the question."

lol, writing haiku's while being fired at... that's just one sentence because the haiku doesn't count. It's a really intense opening.
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Cryptonomicon? awesome book.
 
bartleby said:
To be honest, what attracted me to this was a recent explosion of (personal) interest in things Japanese.
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Hi, I don't know whether you mentioned The Emperor's General of a number of years back. It is set during the occupation after WWII and weaves fascinating looks at Japanese culture into a large overall novel.
 
You may call me D.T. That is short for Dieter, a German name, and D.T. will do, now that I am in America, this curious nation.


The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
 
I grew up in the shadow of the great Sioux War which started here in Minnesota in 1862.

The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman
 
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