Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Opening lines of a book game....
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Thunder18 said:BenTheGoodAg said:
I had to check again because I thought I might be wrong. Not quite.
Wow, I definitely thought JP opened in the medical clinic in Costa Rica with the raptor attack victim...guess that's technically the Prologue
They end up using the compy beach attack to cold open the movie TLW
Yeah, it's something like"the rain was pouring down but she could hear the blades of the helicopter…"
I've lost count how many times I've read Jurassic Park. Every time I read it, I'm taken back to the first time I read it, I can see the places where I was reading it, even the smell of the book.
Rudyjax said:
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
Catcher in the Rye.
$240 Worth of Pudding said:Rudyjax said:
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
Catcher in the Rye.
You're officially up.
'The Small Boys Came Early to the Hanging'
Definitely Not A Cop said:
Catch-22
"The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault."
Blood Rites.
I guarantee you, I'm the biggest Dresden nerd on this forum.
He's up to 24% completion on 12 Months.
TXAG 05 said:Thunder18 said:BenTheGoodAg said:
I had to check again because I thought I might be wrong. Not quite.
Wow, I definitely thought JP opened in the medical clinic in Costa Rica with the raptor attack victim...guess that's technically the Prologue
They end up using the compy beach attack to cold open the movie TLW
Yeah, it's something like"the rain was pouring down but she could hear the blades of the helicopter…"
I've lost count how many times I've read Jurassic Park. Every time I read it, I'm taken back to the first time I read it, I can see the places where I was reading it, even the smell of the book.
Same. The prologue of JP just sets such an intriguing and suspenseful tone
Yup! One of my favorite openers.Rudyjax said:KidDoc said:
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
Eye of the World?
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Is this the beginning of Butcher's Dresden files?Rudyjax said:
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
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No.
That is not dresden's personally, at all.
That is not dresden's personally, at all.
"In our family there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing."
Aggies76 said:
"In our family there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing."
A river runs through it
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
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"When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake - not a very big one."
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AgRyan04 said:
"When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake - not a very big one."
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome DoveAgRyan04 said:
"When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake - not a very big one."
AgRyan04 said:
"When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake - not a very big one."
AgRyan04 said:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
A Tale of Two Cities
Aggies76 said:AgRyan04 said:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
A Tale of Two Cities
I only know this one because it's in Star Trek II.
Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger *****es than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring, hardly human at all.
Rudyjax said:
Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger *****es than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring, hardly human at all.
Dirty White Boys?
I think.
Tanya 93 said:Rudyjax said:
Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger *****es than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring, hardly human at all.
Dirty White Boys?
I think.
Yep.
Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra.
Tanya 93 said:
Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra.
100 years of solitudeCapybara said:
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Room!
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
Pillars of the EarthApache said:
'The Small Boys Came Early to the Hanging'
Whose turn is it?
Summer Breeze.
They were correct
They were correct
G Martin 87 said:Pillars of the EarthApache said:
'The Small Boys Came Early to the Hanging'
Whose turn is it?
No one is following rules so it's a fee for all.
Rudyjax said:G Martin 87 said:Pillars of the EarthApache said:
'The Small Boys Came Early to the Hanging'
Whose turn is it?
No one is following rules so it's a fee for all.
On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor.
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Hagen95 said:
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Too easy but you're out of turn.
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition, and Astrology.
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