first and last lines

Rüya Günlüğü - Hakan Bıçakçı

2011-12-17T13:30:00.000-08:00

Rüya Günlüğü - Hakan Bıçakçı
ISBN: 9753294190
Oğlak Yayınları

İlk satır: İçkinin son yudumu bir tuhaftı.

Son satır: Beyaz çocuk düştü.

Çığlık (Hush, Hush 2) - Becca Fitzpatrick

2011-11-28T11:36:00.001-08:00

Çığlık (Hush, Hush 2) - Becca Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9786054456420
Çevirmen: Sevinç Tezcan Yanar
Pegasus Yayınları

İlk satır: Alıç ağacının parmakları Harrison Grey'in arkasındaki pencere camını tırmalıyordu.

Son satır: Sevgili dostum Chauncey Langeais'i öldüren sen miydin?

Sır (Savannah Vampire 2) - Raven Hart

2011-11-28T11:19:00.001-08:00

Sır (Savannah Vampire 2) - Raven Hart
ISBN: 9786053843306
Çevirmen: Burçin Taylan
Yakamoz Kitap / Sonsuz Kitap

İlk satır: Adım William Cuyler Thorne.

Son satır: Başımı eğerek, yeminimi mühürlemek için ellerini öptüm.

Gizli Anların Yolcusu - Ayşe Kulin

2011-11-27T06:52:00.001-08:00

Gizli Anların Yolcusu - Ayşe Kulin
ISBN: 9789752899513
Everest Yayınları

İlk satır: Polis memuru adımı sordu.

Son satır: 'Bir ölüm vakası bildirmek istiyorum,' dedim, 'bir kaza oldu... Biri evinin balkonundan düştü... Evet, ölüm vakası... Adresi veriyorum...'

The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

2011-11-22T10:09:00.001-08:00

The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
ISBN: 0786240407
Publisher: Chivers Press and Thorndike Press

First line: Each afternoon, when the whole city beyond the dark green shutters of their hotel windows began to stir, Colin and Mary were woken by the methodical chipping of steel tools against the iron barges which moored by the hotel cafe pontoon.

Last line: He set down his briefcase, adjusted the starched white shirt cuffs, and courteously, with the faintest of bows, offered to walk her back to the hotel.

Midnight in Paris

2011-11-11T12:36:00.001-08:00

Title: Midnight in Paris
Release Year: 2011
Categories: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

First line: This is unbelievable.

Last line: It's a pretty name.

Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret

2011-10-08T14:09:00.000-07:00

Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret
ISBN: 9780701184315
Publisher: Chatto & Windus

First line: I think she cried at my funeral.

Son cümle: Just to be sure, every time I start a shift I do a little something-- put my name tag on upside down, tie my apron the wrong way, anything, so if she ever does come in, she won't be sad.

Contributed by Simin.

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

2011-10-08T14:01:00.000-07:00

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
ISBN: 9780802136343
Publisher: Grove Press

First line: It was a Sunday.

Last line: Peace filled his chest.

Contributed by Simin.

Kürk Mantolu Madonna - Sabahattin Ali

2011-10-04T12:52:00.000-07:00

Kürk Mantolu Madonna - Sabahattin Ali
ISBN: 978-975-363-802-7
Yayınevi: Yapı Kredi Yayınları

İlk cümle: Şimdiye kadar tesadüf ettiğim insanlardan belki bir tanesi benim üzerimde belki en büyük tesisi yapmıştır.

Son cümle: Şirkette Raif efendinin boş masasına oturdum ve siyah kaplı defterini önüme koyarak bir kere daha okumaya başladım.

Çoluk Çocuk - Patti Smith

2011-08-26T14:37:00.000-07:00

Çoluk Çocuk - Patti Smith
Orijinal adı: Just Kids
ISBN: 9786056180101
Domingo Yayınları

First line: Annem çok küçükken beni Prairie Nehri'nin kıyısındaki Humboldt Parkı'nda yürüyüşe çıkarırdı.

Last line: Delilah'yı o masada yazarken hayal ediyorum; belki bir an için durup aklından ikimiz için iyi şeyler geçiyordur.

Wilfred (US)

2011-08-25T11:44:00.000-07:00

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WILFRED (US)

Release year: 2011

S01E01

First line: "Nailed it."
Last line: "Hang on."

S01E02
First line: "Morning, Ryan."
Last line: "Couldn't be more wrong."

S01E03
First line: "What?!"
Last line: "You're missing the whole point if the toy; here, give it here."

S01E04
First line: "Oh, hey; wow, look at you."
Last line: "Don't wait up."

S01E05
First line: "It's so nice to have an afternoon off."
Last line: "And just like that he's gone."

Alien

2011-08-25T09:36:00.000-07:00

Title: Alien
Release year: 1979
Categories: Horror, Sci-Fi

First line: "I am cold"

Last line: "Signing off."

Contributed by Simin.

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

2011-08-25T09:32:00.000-07:00

Title: Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Release year: 1995
Categories: Animation, Family, Fantasy

First line: "In all my years never have i seen this street so full of bussle and hustle and assorted commotion."

Last line: "But not too good."

Contributed by Simin.

Aladdin (The Return of Jafar)

2011-08-25T09:28:00.000-07:00

Title: Aladdin (The Return of Jafar)
Release year: 1994
Categories: Animation, Adventure, Family

First line: "This has been quiet rewarding."

Last line: "Shouldn't somebody ask what the brave parrot wants to do?"

Contributed by Simin.

After Life

2011-08-25T09:22:00.000-07:00

Title: After Life
Release year: 2009
Categories: Drama, Horror, Mystery

First line: "It's time now."

Last line: "I'm not dead."

Contributed by Simin.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

2011-08-25T05:21:00.000-07:00

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142437255

First line: "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."

Last line: "So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty."

Contributed by Simin.

Doctor Olaf Van Schuler's Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

2011-08-18T11:49:00.000-07:00

Doctor Olaf Van Schuler's Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-561-2

First line: Doctor Olaf Van Schuler, recently arrived in New Amsterdam with his lunatic mother, two bags of medical implements, and a carefully guarded book of his own medicines, moved to a one-room house near White Hall and soon found work at the hospital on Brugh Street.

Last line: "Go on and save us."

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2011-08-18T10:49:00.000-07:00

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 978-0-307-47630-2

First line: When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he's reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.

Last line: In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

Amsterdam'da Düello - Ian McEwan

2011-08-17T09:33:00.000-07:00

Amsterdam'da Düello - Ian McEwan
Original Title: Amsterdam
Publisher: Can Yayınları
ISBN: 975-07-0036-8

First line: Molly Lane'in iki eski sevgilisi, krematoryumun önünde, şubat soğuğunda arkalarını dönmüş, bekliyorlardı.

Last line: Gülümsedi, kapı zilini çalmak için elini kaldırdı, şimdiden büyük bir keyifle davetli listesi gibi çekici bir konu üzerine kafa yormaya başlamıştı.

Foucault Sarkacı - Umberto Eco

2011-08-14T11:11:00.000-07:00

Foucault Sarkacı - Umberto Eco
Original title: Il pendolo di Foucault
Publisher: Can Yayınları
Çeviren: Şadan Karadeniz
ISBN: 975-510-434-8

First line: Sarkaç'ı o zaman gördüm.

Last line: Öyleyse en iyisi burada kalmalı, beklemeli, tepeye bakmalıyım. Öyle güzel ki.

Contributed by Merve.

Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus

2011-08-14T11:07:00.000-07:00

Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
Original title: L'Exil et le royaume
ISBN: 9780141188256

First line: A house fly had been circling for the last few minutes in the bus, though windows were closed.

Last line: The brother moved a little away from the cook, and half turning towards D'Arrast but without looking at him, pointed to the empty place and said: "Sit down with us."

Contributed by Merve.

Kadınlığımın Hikayesi - Simone De Beauvoir

2011-08-14T11:04:00.000-07:00

Kadınlığımın Hikayesi - Simone De Beauvoir
Original Title: "La Force de l'Age/ La Force des Choses"
ISBN: 9753880978

First line: Tedbirsiz davrandım, güç bir maceraya atılıp kendimi anlatmaya koyuldum; öyle zor ki, başlıyor fakat bitiremiyorsun.

Last line: Yüreğimdeki boğuk korkuları silkip atabilmek için sonun gelmesini, beni fazla bekletmemesini arzuladığım anlar oluyor.

Contributed by Merve.

Başkaldıran İnsan - Albert Camus

2011-08-14T10:40:00.000-07:00

Başkaldıran İnsan - Albert Camus
ISBN 975-510-577-8

First line: Bir tutku cinayetleri vardır, bir de mantık cinayetleri.

Last line: En yüksek gerilimin en son noktasında dosdoğru bir ok fırlayacak, okların en bükülmezi, en özgürü.

Contributed by Merve.

Frany and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

2011-08-14T10:37:00.000-07:00

Franny and Zooey, J.D Salinger
ISBN: 0316769541

First line: Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend- the weekend of the Yale game.

Last line: For some minutes, before she fell into a deep, dreamless sleep, she just lay quiet, smiling at the ceiling.

Contributed by Merve.

Violence by Slavoj Žižek

2011-08-14T10:17:00.000-07:00

Violence by Slavoj Žižek
ISBN: 978 1 84668 017 5

First Line: In 1922 Soviet government organised the forced expulsion of leading anti-communist intellectuals, from philosophers and theologians to economists and historians.

Last Line: Sometimes, doing nothing is the most violent thing to do.

Contributed by Gözde.

Mitologya by Edith Hamilton

2011-08-13T13:11:00.000-07:00

Mitologya by Edith Hamilton
ISBN: 975-434-042-0

First line: Yunanlılar, evreni tanrıların yarattığına inanmazlardı.

Last line: Iason öldükten sonra da, Medeia'nın kışkırttığı öz kızları tarafından öldürüldü.

Contributed by Simin.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

2011-08-12T10:15:00.000-07:00

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
ISBN: 0-394-82037-1

First line: There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself-- not just sometimes, but always.

Last line: "There's just so much to do right here."

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

2011-07-22T17:12:00.000-07:00

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
ISBN: 978-0-316-12716-5

First line: When I was young, I would often spend the weekend at my grandmother's house.

Last line: This is what my grandmother meant when she said, "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save."

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

2011-07-22T17:08:00.000-07:00

Little Bee by Chris Cleave
ISBN: 978-1-4165-8964-8

First line: Most days I wish I was a British pound coin instead of an African girl.

Last line: But me, I watched all of those children smiling and dancing and splashing one another in salt water and bright sunlight, and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.

Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

2011-07-22T17:02:00.000-07:00

Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
ISBN: 0-307-27691-0

First line: "You do an awfully good impression of yourself."

Last line: So, if you see my son, tell him I say hello, be good, that I am thinking of him and that I know he's watching over me somewhere, and not to worry: that he can always find me here, whenever he wants, right here, my arms held out and waiting, in the pages, behind the covers, at the end of Lunar Park.

Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

2011-07-22T16:57:00.000-07:00

Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
ISBN: 978-330-51709-6

First line: They had made a movie about us.

Last line: "And you're so pale."

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

2011-07-22T16:51:00.000-07:00

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 0-099-44847-1

First line: In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

Last line: The blood must have already, in its own silent way, seeped inside.

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

2011-07-22T16:46:00.000-07:00

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse Novels #9
ISBN: 978-0-441-01851-2

First line: "Caucasian vampires should never wear white," the television announcer intoned.

Last line: Then my great-grandfather was gone before I could ask him which vampire he meant.

From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris

2011-07-22T16:43:00.000-07:00

From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse Novels #8
ISBN: 978-0-441-01701-0

First line: If this was the Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way.

Last line: Bye, Hunter, I said right back.

All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris

2011-07-22T16:27:00.000-07:00

All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse Novels #7
ISBN: 978-0-441-01831-4

First line: The Shreveport vampire bar would be opening late tonight.

Last line: We went inside with the sun bright on our backs and our shadows preceding us into the old house.

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

2011-07-22T16:23:00.000-07:00

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse Novels #6
ISBN: 978-0-441-01491-0

First line: I was draped over the arm of one of the most beautiful men I'd ever seen, and he was staring into my eyes.

Last line: Better not to think about it.

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris

2011-07-21T13:59:00.000-07:00

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse Novels #5
ISBN: 978-0-441-01333-3

First line: I knew my brother would turn into a panther before he did.

Last line: "Don't you wish you knew?" I said, and went back to work.

Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

2011-07-21T13:54:00.000-07:00

Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse #4
ISBN: 978-0-441-01218-3

First line: I found the note taped to my door when I got home from work.

Last line: It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

2011-07-21T13:51:00.000-07:00

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse Novels #3
ISBN: 978-0-441-01051-6

First line: Bill was hunched over the computer when I let myself in his house.

Last line: I hadn't laughed so hard in weeks.

Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse #2)

2011-07-21T13:46:00.000-07:00

Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse Novels #2
ISBN: 978-0-441-00923-7

First line: Andy Bellefleur was as drunk as a skunk.

Last line: And mine had, too.

Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1)

2011-07-21T13:43:00.000-07:00

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse Novels #1
ISBN: 978-0-441-01699-0

First line: I'd been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.

Last line: "Yeah. Back to normal."

Scarlet Letter

2011-07-21T10:55:00.000-07:00

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN 0-451-51652-4

First Line: It is a little remarkable that--though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends--an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.

Last line: "ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES."

Never Let Me Go / Beni Asla Bırakma

2011-07-21T10:12:00.000-07:00

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN: 978-0-571-27213-6

First line: My name is Kathy H.

Last line: I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off wherever it was I was supposed to be.