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19-Mar-09, 07:35
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19-Mar-09, 07:36
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
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19-Mar-09, 07:37
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A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
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 the epoch of belief, it was the epoch 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.
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19-Mar-09, 07:38
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Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Call me Ishmael.
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The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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20-Mar-09, 09:38
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Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
It was a pleasure to burn.
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20-Mar-09, 13:37
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Paul Clifford, Edward Bulwer
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostovesky
" I am a sick man, a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts."
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25-Mar-09, 23:45
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Papillon by Henri Charriere
"It was a knockout blow - a punch so overwhelming that I didn't get back on my feet for fourteen years."
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26-Mar-09, 12:13
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The Trial, Franz Kafka
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
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26-Mar-09, 14:28
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
"Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, "That afternoon when I met so-and-so... was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon."
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27-Mar-09, 09:22
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The Crow Road, Ian Banks
"It was the day my grandmother exploded."
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