I'm reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. First because it was free. Secondly, because my new job seems to be expecting so much from me. I want to see how Pip handled the pressure. Perhaps I'll mimic him and his results.
The first line is:
"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip."
No, it's not "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" but it's still pretty good.
I was looking forward to highlighting a lot of passages. Within just the first few pages I was up to three or four highlights. I abandoned that project out of fear that I'd be highlighting the whole book. Looking forward to the whole thing.
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