Opening Sentence: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. Synopsis:’It is the history of a revolution that went wrong – and of the excellent excuses… Read More ›
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Opening Sentence:In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Synopsis:The Great Gatsby captures all the romance and glitter of the Jazz Age in its portrayal… Read More ›
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Opening Sentence:A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Synopsis:Into the neatly programmed ‘Brave New World’ of test-tube babies and drug-controlled happiness, misfit Bernard Marx brings the innocent Savage… Genre:Science Fiction Rating:@@@@ Pages:213 ISBN:o-582-06016-8 Year:1991 Format:Hardcover Comments:Aldous Huxley first published… Read More ›
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Opening Sentence:He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. Synopsis:The short novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952), winner of the… Read More ›
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Opening Sentence:When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Synopsis:A father and son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged… Read More ›
The Three Musketeers (Classic Adventures) by Alexandre Dumas
Opening Sentence:On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the bourg of Meung, in which the author of the Romance of the Rose was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the… Read More ›
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
Opening Sentence:It was a dazzling four-sun afternoon. Synopsis:For the people of Kalgash, complete darkness is a terrifying and impossible unknown: their six suns constantly illuminate all corners of the known world. But new and shattering ideas have come to light…. Read More ›
Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein
Unbelievably, I managed to live the first thirty years of my life without ever reading this book.
Pollyanna by Eleanor H Porter
Well worth giving your to kids to read.
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 