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The first sentence in the book you're reading

Lieutenant Joe Leaphornm, retired, stopped his pickup about a hundred yards short of where he had intended to park, turned of the ignition, stared at Sergeant Jim Chee's trailer home, and reconsidered his tactics.


The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
 
"The transient barracks at Norfolk Naval Base are deserted at nine this morning, or almost deserted; Billy Bad-Ass, First Class Signalman, is asleep in the TV room at the far end of the barracks."

Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail
 
For the desk of:
His Excellency Wen Jiabao,
The Premier's Office,
Bejing,
Capital of the Freedom-Loving Nation of China.

-The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
 
On August 16, 1968, I was HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbe Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en francais d'apres l'edition de Dom J. Mabillon (Aux Presses de l'Abbaye de la Source, Paris, 1842).

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
 
"When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed his shoes while he was reading."

Ex Libris - Anne Fadiman
 
"They called him Moche the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life."

Brownie points if you guess the title :D
 
Veldt to scrub to fields to farms to these first tumbling houses that rise from the earth

-Perdido Street Station -- China Mieville
 
"She picked up the four packs of sleeping people from the bedside table."

-Veronika Decides to Die, Paul Coelho
 
"The Swede. During the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athlete."

American Pastoral by Philip Roth (rereading).
 
"The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn."

~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
 
"The Republic of China on Taiwan is an island of contrasts-form it's centuries-old traditions to it's modern breed of entrprenuers that has brought wealth and prosperity to the land, and also from it's dramatic landscape of jagged mountains to it's wike plains in the coastal region."

from Cultures of the World Taiwan
 
This was a strange period, even for a time of civil war, when horrible surprise and uncertainty, sickness and blight upon the land seemed as commonplace as dogs barking in the night

-Sylvia -- Bryce Courtenay
 
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
(Kept in shorthand)

3 May. Bistritz. Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late.


Dracula by Bram Stoker
 
In the night-time heart of Beirut, in one of a rowof general-address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality.

Ringworld -- Larry Niven
 
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