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A certain LJ-friend of mine (named after a water-bourne mythical creature) recently posted about the first lines of books, how they can make a difference and get you hooked. That got me hooked and I checked some of the books closest to me at that moment for their first line - and will give them to you.

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Just to show that I'm not addicted to facebook, I'll post this to LiveJournal instead.


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Following the truth&dare challenge by John Scalzi in his blog and the great and wild responses in the 170 comments there and here and elsewhere, I decided to have a go at this as well.

Feel free to take up the challenge and answer here or post your list in your LJ oder Blog or Facebook Notes.

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...or who did you want to be as a kid? That's the question ilona-andrews asks and before I give my answer let me say that I very much would like to read yours.
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On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

A friend told me yesterday he had bought a book called "the best movies of the 1990s" and that got me wondering. Had there been any really good movies in the 1990s? Any of my all-time favourites? I could think of none.

So I went looking at the IMDB for the Top Grossing Movies of 1991 (and the following years by changing the number in the link). ( Read more... )

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