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11894216 No.11894216 [Reply] [Original]

>book starts with a quote

>> No.11894223

Name 1 (ONE) book that does this incorrectly

>> No.11894328
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11894328

>book starts with a poem

>> No.11894346

A lot of good books start each of their chapters with a quote.

For example see Hayek’s Road to Serfdom or George’s Progress and Poverty

>> No.11894351

>>11894346
How's Game Theory going?

>> No.11894358
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11894358

>quote is from a character in the book

>> No.11894371
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11894371

>book starts

>> No.11894574
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11894574

Technically every line in a book is a "quote".

>> No.11894583
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11894583

>book starts with the creation of the place all other books will come from

>> No.11894749
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11894749

>book starts with a verse from Ecclesiastes

>> No.11894757

>>11894216
literally nothing wrong with an epigraph as long as it makes sense in relation to the book

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>book ends

>> No.11895790

>book ends with a farewell from the author

>> No.11895872
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11895872

>book is filled with self-quotes

>> No.11895880
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11895880

>biology book starts each chapter with a few untranslated quotes

>> No.11895883

>>11894216
>>11894328
Stop posting anime on a literature board

>> No.11895935

>>11894216

>Blurb on the back says the book is a 'life-changing experience'
>As you open the cover, it shoots a spray of acid into your face

>> No.11895940

>book starts with a humorously misattributed quote

>> No.11895980

>cover starts with a tour de force

Worth it every time

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>>11895980

>the book uses phrases like 'tour de force'

>> No.11895997
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11895997

>Book starts with "It was a dark, stormy night"

>> No.11896005
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11896005

>it's a tour de france

>> No.11896960

>>11895883
How new.

>> No.11897280
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11897280

>book starts with a spoiler

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>>11894216
Gravity's Rainbow did this fucking perfectly you mong
>>11897280
Now this is almost always done poorly. Even WORSE so when the back cover of the book, not even written by the author, gives the spoiler. My copy of Hunger tells you how it ends on the back description.

>> No.11898418

>>11894351
The chapter on Poker is the hardest thing...

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>>11895997
> book starts with "once upon a time,"

>> No.11898491

> Book starts with a 100 page introduction about the translator stroking his ego

>> No.11898496
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11898496

every chapter in Foucault´s Pendulum starts with a quote

what was umberto thinking?

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11898510

>book doesn't start

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11898531

>book starts in another book

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11898538

>>11898510
>book doesn't end

>> No.11898556

>book starts with a song lyric

>> No.11898559

>>11898556
>song starts with a book title

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11898564

>book starts revealing the end

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11898566

>book starts with a blank page

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>>11898538

>> No.11898693

>>11898556
>book starts with a song lyric that's actually a quote from itself

>> No.11898726

>thread starts with an anime pic

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>>11898726
forgot pic

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>>11898762
oops wrong pic

>> No.11898820

>>11898556
I like when this happens

>> No.11898830

>>11895935
The second time a book did this to me, I asked for a refund.