Opening Lines - Page 2

Shawnee123 · 08-16-2009, 09:45 AM

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I like this book:

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. - Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)

dar512 · 08-18-2009, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)

darlet 2 just finished that book. It was one of two required summer readings for honors english.

spudcon · 08-16-2009, 10:51 AM

Winter comes early in this city. The first snow covers all the soot and debris that three other seasons left behind.

Shawnee123 · 08-16-2009, 05:40 PM

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)

smoothmoniker · 08-17-2009, 12:21 AM

"He - for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it - was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."

from "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf

Shawnee123 · 08-18-2009, 03:29 PM

I love that book, like I said.

I borrowed The Virgin Suicides, also by Eugenides, from the library but never got around to reading it. I liked the movie, though.

08-16-2009, 09:45 AM	#1
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	http://www.pantagraph.com/news/artic...688ea3b6a.html I like this book: I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. - Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002) __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-16-2009, 10:51 AM	#3
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	Winter comes early in this city. The first snow covers all the soot and debris that three other seasons left behind. __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

08-16-2009, 05:40 PM	#4
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938) __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-17-2009, 12:21 AM	#5
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	"He - for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it - was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters." from "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf __________________ to live and die in LA

08-18-2009, 03:29 PM	#6
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I love that book, like I said. I borrowed The Virgin Suicides, also by Eugenides, from the library but never got around to reading it. I liked the movie, though. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

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