If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword I quietly take to the ship. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. You can’t lose what you lacked at conception.Ĭall me Ishmael. You can’t ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.Īmerica was never innocent. And the earth was without form, and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Yours sincerely.’ That doesn’t mean anything. I had a telegram from the home: ‘Mother passed away. Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person’s lack of theology and geometry it could even cast doubts upon one’s soul. Several of the outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be properly considered offenses against taste and decency. Holmes department store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress. Reilly’s supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D.H. In the shadow under the green visor of the cap Ignatius J. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.
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The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Let us know if we've left any off at the bottom.Ī Confederacy Of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)Ī green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. But in the meantime, enjoy the best literary handshakes of all time… They range from hard-boiled pulp fiction to classics to, well, The Bible the only thing they have in common is that they’re so good it’s impossible not to read on. In the right hands, a novel’s beginning alone can make you feel like you’ve just fallen into a fast-flowing river, snatched away from reality and hurtled downhill. If you're surprised not to see some of your favorite books among the winners, you might want to look at this blog post, which describes the thinking behind the tough calls.As with pubs and shoes, you know you’re reading a great book from the second you’re inside it.
But deciding what does and doesn't count as a young-adult novel isn't an exact science. Selecting a manageable voting roster from among the more than 1,200 nominations that came in from readers wasn't easy, and we were happy to be able to rely on such an experienced panel of judges. For example, John Green, author of the 2012 hit The Fault in Our Stars, appears five times in the top 100. While it's no surprise to see Harry Potter and the Hunger Games trilogy on top, this year's list also highlights some writers we weren't as familiar with. A whopping 75,220 of you voted for your favorite young adult novels, blasting past the total for last year's science fiction and fantasy poll at, dare we say it, warp speed.Īnd now, the final results are in. Which is why we were only a little surprised to see the tremendous response that came in for this summer's Best-Ever Teen Fiction poll. Just last year, the Association of American Publishers ranked Children's/Young Adult books as the single fastest-growing publishing category. It's almost a cliche at this point to say that teen fiction isn't just for teens anymore.
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