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The first sentence in the book you're reading

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When the crops were under cover on the Wayne farm near Pittsford in Vermont, when the winter wood was cut and the first light snow lay on the ground, Joseph Wayne went to the wing-back chair by the fireplace late one afternoon and stood before his father

To a God Unknown
 
They came like a caravan of carnival folk up through the swales of broomstraw and across the hill in the morning sun.

Child Of God by Cormac McCarthy
 
At three-thirty A.M. on the night of June 5, 1992, the top telepath in the Sol System fell off the map in the offices of Runciter Associates in New York City.

Ubik - Philip K. Dick
 
In the midst of a storm

MRS. ELIZABETH YOUNG, better known as Lizzie Mae amongst her family and friends, caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror and wondered if her flannel pajamas, face crème, and sponge rolled hair were the reasons that her cheating husband stayed out late every night.
 
The rambler who,for old association's sake,should trace the forsaken coach-road running in almost meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England,would find himself during the latter half of his journey in the vicinity of some extensive woodlands,interspersed with apple-orchards.

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
 
An Outline of the Republic-Siddhartha Deb


"They gave me the vaguest of assignment before packing me off to the region,introducing the subject late one night in the company urinals."
 
I'm reading two books at the moment, but here are the first sentences:

"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

"After dark the rain began to fall again, but he had already made up his mind to go and anyway it had been raining for weeks."
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
 
Animal Farm-George Orwell



"Mr.Jones,of the Manor Farm,had locked the hen-houses for the night,but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes."
 
He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.

For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Ernest Hemingway
 
Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
 
The door was made of thin panels,cheap stuff he could put his fist through.

The Frightened Man by Kenneth Cameron
 
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