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Re: Bookworms:What are the best first lines you've read?
Check this out Dianne.
The Authors Guild - E-Book Royalty Math: The House Always Wins E-books also incur tax as software.
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Printed books are zero rated...e-books are charged at 20%VAT.
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Funny thing is I once did one of those psychological tests at Uni. that showed I was about 93% left -dominant - that will explain why I can't understand things on days like today...my mind is elsewhere, what little is left of it. 
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Re: Bookworms:What are the best first lines you've read?
"The primroses were over." Richard Adams -Watership Down.
Loved this book as a girl - was also into James Herriot. It was the period when i wanted to be a vet...
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Re: Bookworms:What are the best first lines you've read?
Was talking to friend Charlotte about this one yesterday -she had to study Lawrence at Uni. and found him hard going...
‘The Bottoms’ succeeded to ‘Hell Row’. Sons and Lovers.
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Re: Bookworms:What are the best first lines you've read?
"What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare?" W. H. Davies, "Leisure".
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Re: Bookworms:What are the best first lines you've read?
"Marx has copletely changed the way I view the world," declared the Pallières boy this morning, although ordinarily he says nary a word to me.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (written originally in French) There is a film version of this book which is also really good. The last words of this book are actually better: "Don't worry Renée, I won't commit suicide and i won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world."
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