The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. Or: how the little hobbit Bilbo Baggins of Bag End went on an adventure, became a cunning burglar and found a magical ring that got his nephew in all kinds of trouble. No, this wasn’t the first time I read The Hobbit. It was the first time I [...]
Category Archives: First Lines
First Lines: God No!
October 23, 2011 – 13:28
There’s two reasons picked up a copy of Penn Jillette’s God No!: 1) I really liked his This I Believe piece from a couple of years ago, and 2) I read the introduction. Both are awesome pieces about atheism / being an atheist. Unfortunately, the book didn’t live up to the introduction. Jillette, a self [...]
First Lines: The Catcher in the Rye
October 15, 2011 – 12:57
Holden Caulfield. With his goddamn red hunting cap. He kills me. He really does. But I felt sorry as hell for him too. I really did. Not because he’s just a sixteen year old boy. And not because he’s some kinda phony, complaining about other people being phonies or anything. I’m not saying that. But [...]
First Lines: The Key to Creation
October 4, 2011 – 00:01
In The Key to Creation, Book Three of Kevin J. Anderson’s Terra Incognita trilogy, the inevitable is about to happen. Two decades of religious hatred from two opposing continents and religions is about to explode into the violent orgy of violence to end the mother of all religious violent orgies. Something like that. There can [...]
First Lines: Rush
September 21, 2011 – 17:00
Like Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, Jonathan Friesen’s Rush was recommended to me in a local bookstore. But unlike DG&DP, Rush didn’t quite grab me. Probably because the whole “live fase, die hard, leave a pretty corpse” thing is kinda wasted on me. Not a bad book by any means, just not my cup of [...]
