What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

GrinningDwarf · Mar 1, 2007

The lab was in a quiet, controled tumult.

'Trial by Fire' by Shane Tourtellotte. It's the lead story in the current Analog:Science Fiction and Fact magazine.

LazeyWinde · Mar 2, 2007

Shortly after midnight on Friday, June 16, 1978, Sylvia Frumkin decided to take a bath.
Is there no Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan.

Athene · Mar 2, 2007

Sometimes the first thing we forget is what we're really trying to do. Adventures in Missing the Point by Brian Mclaren and Tony Campolo

revkajewel · Mar 2, 2007

When did human beings start creating works of art?
J.W. Janson's History of Art

notanordinarygirl · Mar 2, 2007

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was a time of belief, it was a time of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

-A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.

DanielJamesSimon · Mar 8, 2007

Injuries are a significant source of preventable illness, disability and mortality in Australia.

Tortsby Harold Luntz with David Hambly.

Not one of the most exciting books I've ever come across.

AngylBelle · Mar 9, 2007

"The story that follows is one I never intended to commit to paper." ~ The Historian by: Elizabeth Kostova

texmex · Mar 9, 2007

"It was a tiny shopt, tucked discreetly in among the other shops along London's Oxford Street." Vienna Prelude, Bodie Thoene

inzone · Mar 10, 2007

well, it was done, and it was done well.....

DanielJamesSimon · Mar 14, 2007

texmex said:
"It was a tiny shopt, tucked discreetly in among the other shops along London's Oxford Street." Vienna Prelude, Bodie Thoene

Fantastic book! I read it recently.

"Economics is divided into two main branches: microeconomics and macroeconomics." - Microeconomics, by Pindyck and Rubinfeld.

HiredGoon · Mar 14, 2007

"It is an extraordinary fact that there is no collection of Reformed Confessions of Faith available in English today." -Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century by Arthur Cochrane

Bachi234 · Mar 14, 2007

"I felt the cold wind that blew in from the San Fancisco Bay whip across the top of the vert ramp and onto the deck as I walked around waiting my turn." Hawk Occupation: Skateboarder by Tony Hawk

notanordinarygirl · Mar 14, 2007

"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut." - Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë.

futuredoc · Mar 15, 2007

AngylBelle said:
"The story that follows is one I never intended to commit to paper." ~ The Historian by: Elizabeth Kostova

Great book I loved it

Christopher Fox · Mar 19, 2007

While the 18th century Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume thought the Crusades 'the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation' he admitted 'they engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engrossed the curiosity of mankind'.

The Crusades - A very short introduction by Christopher Tyerman

TheKry17 · Mar 19, 2007

My father's name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Christopher Fox · Mar 19, 2007

TheKry17 said:
My father's name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Now that's a great book!

ShineForever · Mar 19, 2007

"It is common in Christian circles to refer to the corpus of biblical books from Joshua through Esther as the Historical Books." - Handbook on the Historical Books, by Victor P. Hamilton

TheKry17 · Mar 19, 2007

Christopher Fox said:
Now that's a great book!

YES IT IS

SavedForever · Mar 19, 2007

"In the wake of 9/11, many of us want to reinvent our ideas about security. But we don't need to learn something completely new; we need to learn to be smarter, more skeptical, and more skilled about what we already know." - Bruce Schneier - Beyond Fear

What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

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Blue Girl in a Spacey Haze

Grammatically incorrect

Oh, my goodness! Everybody behave naturally!

Threaten me with immortality.

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