Do you like to read? Do you KNOW how to read?
 

What's the first sentence of your favorite novel?

Here's mine:

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

What's yours?

"A long time ago,

in a galaxy far far away..."

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An elephant makes a big poop...

Once upon a time in a land far away..

first printed in 2011 by bantam books

Some readings are pretty much the same as not reading at all ...

Game of thrones?

"The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day. I sat there with Sally."

"The old woman remembered a swan she had bought... many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum."

That was one of the best books I've read. :thumbsup

I'll add:

"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of a fleshy balloon of a head."

and

"You never hear about a sportsman losing his sense of smell in a tragic accident, and for good reason; in order for the universe to teach excruciating lessons that we are unable to apply in later life, the sportsman must lose his legs, the philosopher his mind, the painter his eyes, the musician his ears, the chef his tongue."

Reading is good

Great book.

It's hard for me to pick one book, but here is a good one.

"It's incredible, it really is, isn't it? Ever think you'd be humping along some crazy-ass trail like this, jumping up and down like a goddamn bullfrog, dodging bullets all day?" Back in Cleveland, man, I'd still be asleep."

That opening is good, but this line from later in the book is my favorite.

"It is more difficult, however, to think of yourself in those ways. As the eternal Hector, dying gallantly. It is impossible. That's the problem. Knowing yourself, you can't make it real for yourself. It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero."

mark twain books

We sat there, we two.

Always one of my favs

My best fave though was

In a hole in the ground there lived a....

I just finished reading Anne Frank's book. It was interesting to see how Jews lived in hiding during WWII.

Not first, but still fav from Rachel's Holiday
?You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you?

The only fiction I read is GFY ...

I seem to have trouble dying.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

One of my first books and still one of the most favorite, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ?and what is the use of a book,? thought Alice, ?without pictures or conversations??