Can you guess the titles of these books from their first lines? Do they make you want to pick them up?
Dazzling…wrenching…a mind bender.”– Time
“Brain-boggling.”– Life
“Full of poetry, scientific imagination, and typical wry Clarke wit. By standing the universe on its head, he makes us see the ordinary universe in a different light…[This novel becomes] a complex allegory about the history of the world.”– The New Yorker
“Breathtaking.” —Saturday Review
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“A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction.”– Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A gripping adventure story . . . Laced with wit, spiced with terror, it’s a book by an extraordinary talent.”– St. Paul Pioneer-Press
“A terrific book . . . Fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore.”– Margaret Atwood
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“A delicious, compulsively readable novel about young love and its vicissitudes. What fun!” –Erica Jong
“Dreamy and funny . . . an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A+” –Entertainment Weekly
“It is an occasion worth celebrating when a sparkling novel, a work of wit, irony, and feeling is brought back into print after an absence of many years. So uncork the champagne for I Capture the Castle.” –Los Angeles Times
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“A brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic…the story of Elaine’s childhood is so real and heartbreaking you want to stand up in your seat and cheer.” — Boston Sunday Globe
“Stunning…Atwood conceives Elaine with a poet’s transforming fire; and delivers her to us that way, a flame inside an icicle.” — Los Angeles Times
“Nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking.” — The New York Times Book Review
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To see all the books featured in the First Lines book display – located in the main lobby of the library – click HERE.
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