Some Favorite Last Lines
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. The first line of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1884) hooked me the first…
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"And that’s all I’m going to say about that."
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. The first line of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1884) hooked me the first…
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“It was the sort of day that didn’t give a damn.” Eleven words. This first line of Tatiana, 2013 by Martin Cruz Smith immediately sets a mood and tone that makes me want to settle in for a good long…
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Dashiell Hammett along with Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain are considered founders of hard-boiled detective fiction. It is no surprise that many of their novels became popular movies, often quoted, that continue to delight us. What sets these writers…
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Selecting a book is a sort of alchemy. First, something compels me to pick it up. That may be a great title, a strange title, a compelling title, an enigmatic title, a just plain weird title. It could be an…
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I enjoyed Winter’s Tale. Mark Helprin is a writer I have a hard time finding the right adjectives for. His writing is beautifully captivating, magical yet true. I was at once excited to see this movie, yet almost expecting that…
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There is something about Peter Jackson’s vision of Tolkien’s world that works really well for me. I think we all develop strong visuals of the books we read, especially such richly penned works like The Hobbit and The Lord of…
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