| Opening line | Book | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Call me Ishmael. | Moby Dick | 87%
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| All children, except one, grow up. | Peter Pan | 83%
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| It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. | 1984 | 82%
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| Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 77%
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| Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago... | Don Quixote | 55%
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| All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. | Anna Karenina | 52%
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| If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like... | The Catcher in the Rye | 44%
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| Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure. | The Stranger | 39%
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| There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. | Jane Eyre | 25%
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| Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show | David Copperfield | 23%
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| All this happened, more or less. | Slaughterhouse Five | 20%
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| Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. | Ulysses | 15%
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| I'm pretty much f*cked. | The Martian | 9%
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| I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man... | Notes from Underground | 8%
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| In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains | A Farewell to Arms | 5%
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