What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[soblessed53]

Modern masturbation can be dated with a precision rare in cultural history.

-- Solitary Sex - A Cultural History of Masturbation, by Thomas W. Laqueur

That has to be about the most assinine statement that has ever been put into print,IMHO!

 

[Konnie]

It was the pivotal teaching of Pluthero Quexos, the most celebrated dramatist of the Second Dominion, that in any fiction, no matter how ambitous its scope or profound its theme, there was only ever room for three players.

Imajica by Clive Barker

 

[GrinningDwarf]

Dawn was beginning to soften the edge of the night as the Buick convertible cruised through the Essex countryside.

Piece of Cake by Derek Robinson (A WW2 Battle of Britain novel.)

 

[Konnie]

Curt Wilcox's boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody told him get out the way or asked him what in hail he was doing there again.

From A Buick 8 by Stephen King

 

[Writings]

He stood motionless in the entryway, staring at his own shadow splayed before him like a stain upon the floor.

- House, by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker

 

[PastorJim]

"My name is Frank Bama and I fly boats" - Where is Joe Merchant

 

[Konnie]

For a long time the horizon had been a monotonous flat blue line separating the Pacific Ocean from the sky.

Sphere by Michael Crichton

 

[Theogonia]

The small boys came early to the hanging. - The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett

 

[Hackett]

In the mid-seventies an engineering student I know experienced a powerful, life-changing audlt re-conversion to Christ. from the Rapture Trap by Paul Thigpen

 

[Konnie]

Emily Jansen sighed in relief.

Prey by Michael Crichton

 

[kelco]

The Portable Seminary represnts a unique learning experience.
The Portable Seminary edited by David Horton

 

[Konnie]

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

 

[Bachi234]

Surfing has always had a distinct position in the coastal communities where it is practiced.
Surfing by Nancy Schiffer

 

[Konnie]

To every hour, its mystery.

Sacrament by Clive Barker

 

[Phoenixtears1]

Okay, so let me just get a few things straight.

Abadazad: The Road to Inconvievable
by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Ploog

 

[Konnie]

"What did you ask, Andy Bissette?"

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

 

[HiredGoon]

"This could have occured nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak--the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning."
-Youth: A Narrative, by Joseph Conrad

 

[Ellesar]

"'Why do we serve the Flames?'" ~The Light of Eidon by Karen Hancock

 

[Konnie]

To the public eye, the spouses of well-known writers are all but invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon.

Lisey's Story by Stephen King

 

[Hackett]

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