Re: Let's play the "first line" game...

If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another
five minutes, Sean Chercover <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>!

Okay, everybody. What's the first line of the novel you're
currently reading?

The missing girl -- there had been unceasing news reports,
always flashing to that achingly ordinary school portrait of the
vanished teen, you know the one, with the rainbow-swirl
background, the girl?s hair too straight, her smile too
self-conscious, then a quick cut to the worried parents on the
front lawn, microphones surrounding them, Mom silently tearful,
Dad reading a statement with quivering lip -- that girl, that
missing girl, had just walked past Edna Skylar.

-Harlan Coben's PROMISE ME

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Cheers,
--Jeff

"My grandma always said that God made libraries
so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."
--Joan Bauer, "Rules of the Road," 1998

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