livres

[phineasjones]

gacked from silviakundera. first lines of 10 favorite books. well anyway, these are my favorite this morning. i'm bad with favorites. there are too many amazing books in the world to decide that 10 are my favorite. and i change my mind all the time and i forget things all the time. so yeah, favorites for today:

"The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all." - A Room With a View, EM Forster

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter." - Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

"Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened." - The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

"It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock." - The Passion, Jeanette Winterson <3<3<3

"The book was thick and black and covered with dust." Possession, AS Byatt

"At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring." Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

"Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways." hahahaha

"Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster?" Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters

"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton." dude, with this book, the question is which first line?

"The beginnings of this story lie far back in time, and its reverberations still sound today." King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild. this is non-fiction and isn't exactly a favorite book, but it's fucking mind-blowing. mmhmm.

Comments

[gemmi-1.livejournal.com]

"Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened." - The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

I LOVE this book. Completely. COMPLETELY.

"It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock." - The Passion, Jeanette Winterson <3<3<3

I'd forgotten you were the one that got me hooked on Jeanette Winterson. Hooked!

Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster?" Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters

This was a good one. Have you read Fingersmith? That was a really cool one too. *nods*

Re:

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

i got you reading jw? go me!!!

yeah, does the poisonwood bible blow your mind or what? there's so much in the book. it's gorgeous and amazing.

fingersmith? is that her new one? haven't read it. yet. i have a feeling it's going to happen soon. i did read affinity. very good but different from ttv.

[emriver.livejournal.com]

I so amazed that you can remember the opening lines well enough to know which are your favoirites! I'm lucky to remember what the number of the first page is, never mind what's written on it!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

aha. no, they're not favorite first lines, they're first lines of favorite books... my memory certainly isn't that good. some of these really aren't that great as first lines go...

[emriver.livejournal.com]

That's what you wrote. Shows you how carefully I read sometimes.

Re:

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

hey, 'sok! i got to play comment-response. wheeeee!!!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

You've read 'Tipping the Velvet'? Tha's so cool! I just finished 'Affinity', m'self.

I love 'The Passion'. Prolly one of my favourite Jeanette Wintersons.

Re:

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

oh yes, i've read it. i adore it.

and affinity! did it kill you like it killed me? ugh, god, the ending! ahahgharghgnoooo!!!

and the passion is my favorite book of all time. she is amazing.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Affinity killed me. It ripped out my heart and then jumped up and down in my squishy chest cavity laughing.