“Monday, 4:28 a.m., the narrow French Quarter room was smoky with cheap candles that smelled of honey.” The Sentry Robert Crais Read more

“Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.” Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Read more

“Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy.” The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy Read more

“The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.” Life, the Universe and Everything Douglas Adams Read more

“The trial was irrevocably over; everything that could be said had been said, but he had never doubted that he would lose.” The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Read more

“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.” City of Glass Paul Auster Read more

“This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history.” The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkein Read more

“Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the corn flake and peanut butter, not to mention caramel-cereal coffee, Bromose, Nuttolene and some seventy-five other gastrically correct foods, paused to level his gaze on the heavyset woman in the front row.” The Road to Wellville T. Coraghessan Boyle Read more

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Read more

“High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.” Changing Places David Lodge Read more