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Great opening paragraph 61… ‘Dance Dance Dance’ #amwriting #FirstPara

Haruki Murakami“I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.
In these dreams, I’m there, implicated in some kind of ongoing circumstance. All indications are that I belong to this dream continuity.
The Dolphin Hotel is distorted, much too narrow. It seems more like a long, covered bridge. A bridge stretching endlessly through time. And there I am, in the middle of it. Someone else is there too, crying.
The hotel envelops me. I can feel its pulse, its heat. In dreams, I am part of the hotel.”
‘Dance Dance Dance’ by Haruki Murakami
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‘Armadillo’ by William Boyd
‘Perfume’ by Patrick Suskind
‘Couples’ by John Updike

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Great opening paragraph 40… ‘Norwegian Wood’ #amwriting #FirstPara

Haruki Murakami“I was 37 then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to Hamburg airport. Cold November rains drenched the earth, lending everything the gloomy air of a Flemish landscape: the ground crew in waterproofs, a flag atop a squat airport building, a BMW billboard. So – Germany again.”
‘Norwegian Wood’ by Haruki Murakami 
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‘Room’ by Emma Donoghue
‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov
‘A Passage to India’ by EM Forster

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Great opening paragraph 28 ‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami #books

“When the phone ran I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to an FM broadcast of the overture of Rossini’s ‘The Thieving Magpie,’ which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.”
‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK

Try one of these First Paras & discover a new author:-
‘A Change of Climate’ by Hilary Mantel
‘The Pelican Brief’ by John Grisham
‘Sophie’s World’ by Jostein Gaarder

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