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Standing in a shop, read the first paragraph, walked to the till. Which one?
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Openings. The sentence that buys the paragraph, that buys the page, that buys the book. Post one without the title and let people guess. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
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The opening that made you buy the book on the spot
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"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
Read it standing in a shop at nineteen and bought it without reading another word.