Great Opening Lines

[Bella]

Be very very sure not to read it.

My kid was required to read that book in 5th grade and she sobbed through most of it.
Partly because it's about dogs and they all die and partly out of frustration at being forced to read such crap.
To make her feel better, I promised to read along with her.
So there we both were, crying and reading that stupid book together.

[Horab Fibslager]

stately plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed

-james joyce ulysses - sets teh tone fro the next one thousand or so pages.

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

...

[Bob the Mediocre]

Be very very sure not to read it.

My kid was required to read that book in 5th grade and she sobbed through most of it.
Partly because it's about dogs and they all die and partly out of frustration at being forced to read such crap.
To make her feel better, I promised to read along with her.
So there we both were, crying and reading that stupid book together.

Woah. Alright. I think the guy described it as being "suicide inducing" or something, but I apparantly didn't take him seriously enough. Anyway, like the avatar.

[Bella]

Woah. Alright. I think the guy described it as being "suicide inducing" or something, but I apparantly didn't take him seriously enough. Anyway, like the avatar.

That's a very accurate description.
I have to tell Sara someone called it "suicide inducing". She'll love it.

And thanks - I lost this avatar a while back, but gnimbley found it again.

[Bob the Mediocre]

Woah. Alright. I think the guy described it as being "suicide inducing" or something, but I apparantly didn't take him seriously enough. Anyway, like the avatar.

That's a very accurate description.
I have to tell Sara someone called it "suicide inducing". She'll love it.

And thanks - I lost this avatar a while back, but gnimbley found it again.

The guy who said that was one of the authors leading the thing, by the way. Knowledgable opinion, or something.

[Zurtok Khan]

"It has been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute." - Tom Robbins Villa Incognito

Alright, I need that book.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

long starting sentence:

Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Saviour at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up.

The Violent Bear it Away ~~Flannery O'Connor

[Bella]

long starting sentence:......

short starting sentence:

"Raging emotions, dead tissue."

The Conspiracy Club by Jonathon Kellerman

[hooplala]

"Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick."

The Shining, by Stephen King.

Probably the first adult novel I read all the way through, I was about ten, and the first line has stuck in my mind ever since.

[Bob the Mediocre]

"It was love at first sight.
"The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him."

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

"...to wound the autumnal city."

Dhalgren, Samuel Delaney

(anyone else know a book that begins with a sentance fragment?

[Bella]

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

The Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Emmuska

[doubtless incident]

'someplace along the midway of new york they call broadway i had picked up a tail.'  mickey spillane, the death dealers.

that opening makes me laugh. what'd he do with the tail after he picked it up? put it in his pocket? ew.

[CORNHOLIO]

'someplace along the midway of new york they call broadway i had picked up a tail.'  mickey spillane, the death dealers.

that opening makes me laugh. what'd he do with the tail after he picked it up? put it in his pocket? ew.

uh, that would be cooool, heh, heh,heh

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Good thing that isn't Eldora.