Book Club

[Honeybit]

Do you have any favorite book titles or first lines?  Not that they're particularly your favorite books, just that you find the titles or the first lines particularly striking.

My all-time favorite titles are the two volumes of Isaac Asimos's autobiography:

IN MEMORY YET GREEN     (1920-1954)

IN JOY STILL FELT               (1954-1978)

The first line that has stuck with me ever since I first read it years ago is :

They rode at a footpace, side by side, threading a way among the scuppernongs.

(From "The Unconquered" by Ben Ames Williams -- it gave me such a vivid mental picture of a particular place and time in only a handful of words.)

[Group 5 minus 1]

It was the best of times.......

[Kachina624]

Men to Match My Mountains  Irving Stone's book about the settlement and exploration of the American West.  A great read.

[QVCkitty1]

First line of Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,

Favorite line, favorite book, favorite author.

[DJP]

It was a dark and stormy night..........

[tobes]

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas ...Hunter Thompson,  "it was somewhere in Barstow when the drugs kicked in"

[I am still oxox]

Half a league, half a league, 
Half a league onward, 

Not a book but a poem 
Charge of the Light Brigade 

I learned it with my Moms help in 5th grade

[GingerPeach]

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@DJPwrote:

It was a dark and stormy night..........

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Snoopy's novel - I love the idea of Snoopy writing!

ETA:  I should have added that Snoopy did steal that line.

[Sooner]

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

[kelsey17]

I always remembered this first storyline....

"Last night i dreamt i went to Manderley again"

from REBECCA