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With all these obviously excellent books running around, I have an idea brewing in my head - but as with all things that brew in my head, I tend to mull it over to death before hitting the accelerator
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Even if you aren't much of a christian, the Bible is one awesome literary creation.In the Beginning.......
Not too sure. #1 sounds like Phillip K Dick, but probably isn't.Vain wrote: 1. "It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my future"
2. "Boris Johnson stepped lightly and automatically off the outermost strip of the groundlevel glideway and onto the sidewalk lip"
I'm impressed!Vain wrote:"The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended."
Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
"Saturday, June the 13th. And Robert Caligari is going to die today."
Tom Baker: The Boy Who Kicked Pigs
not quite an opening line, but none the less memorable "how do you take from a man who has lost everything?, give him back something broken" (Dromond wrote:What's your favorite,mind grabbing opening line in a book? My favorite is Ken Folletts' Pillars of the Earth -- "The small boys came early to the hanging"!! Catches you right there! Any others ?
Name the book rather than the author! Same Tom Baker who played Dr. Who?The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash thet bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky.