It's raining (again). Well it is here. But even if it isn't raining, everyone needs to smile and this should just about achieve it. Well it will if you are a bookish nerd who wants to spend their time trying to figure out where these original first lines came from and what they should read.
Some are obvious. "Mother died today" is Camus' The Stranger. A few are markedly improved on the original.
The top three:
“Call me Ishmael_65.”
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The top three:
“Alice was beginning to tire of sitting by her sister on the bank. She took out her iPhone and played Angry Birds for the next three hours.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an internet startup to call his own.”
“Call me Ishmael_65.”
Follow the link...
* Thanks to Mr Dubar for sending me this.
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