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Re: Bookworms:What are the best first lines you've read?
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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany
I often re-read books, usually after a long enough interlude. Another evocative introduction is :-
In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare,sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
J.R.R Tolkien "The hobbit"
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Good one -haven't re-read it in years! 
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