Unforgettable Opening Paragraphs
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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
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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I'm surprised none of you stated the obvious:
All of the other books I haven't read. SRD was the only Sci/fi fantasy author I liked. Also, who mentioned Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett? That is one of my favorite books by my favorite author! I highly recommend it!
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All of the other books I haven't read. SRD was the only Sci/fi fantasy author I liked. Also, who mentioned Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett? That is one of my favorite books by my favorite author! I highly recommend it!
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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 think #2 might be Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" Again, not 100%.
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I'm impressed! Have you read "The Boy Who Kicks Pigs" then? Tom Baker is a sick genius!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
Re: Unforgettable Opening Sentences
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" ( Possibly not deadly accurate but the best my memory can muster)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 ?
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Wow Vain u do read some impressive books! If u like Spinrad and Wolfe u'll love Zindell...hansen that must b from TWL! This is very ez:
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.
fall far and well Pilots!
Alas danlo ! I fear that recent years have left me ina void insofar as reading is concerned. I'm slowly getting back to it though
I've always enjoyed Spinrad, Aldiss, MZB, Van Vogt, Wolfe, Moorcock, and a number of others that don't come to mind at present.
TCTC was the first multi-book series I read though. From there I reading The many coloured land series (Julian May) and then Gene Wolfe's Sword of the Conilliator etc series. I even named my black cat Severian in honour of the torturer
I've always enjoyed Spinrad, Aldiss, MZB, Van Vogt, Wolfe, Moorcock, and a number of others that don't come to mind at present.
TCTC was the first multi-book series I read though. From there I reading The many coloured land series (Julian May) and then Gene Wolfe's Sword of the Conilliator etc series. I even named my black cat Severian in honour of the torturer
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Wow u just named 2 more authors that lend 2 appreciation of Zindell: VanVogt and Aldiss--actually there is a Aldiss story, about a lone spaceman almost becoming so totally "as one" w/the nuerologics of his spacecraft that he almost goes mad, that may have inspired Neverness-- and many have compared Zindell 2 Wolfe very favorably! You of all readers would totally enjoy Zindell!
fall far and well Pilots!
I have to admit that I do not get more than the absolutely most famous of these opening lines. I do not really pay much attention to opening lines, mostly because I had to read all the way to "The Celebration of Spring" before Lord Foul's Bane became impossible to put down. Based on this I now always read a few chapters of a book before deciding if it is worth my effort continuing.
Now that is not to say that I have not read any books with good opening lines. Anybody know these:
"Who is John Galt?" (hint: This is not SF or fantasy)
Memories haunted the Ghostwood, brittle as the twigs that splintered like tiny bones under Mark's boots.
Now that is not to say that I have not read any books with good opening lines. Anybody know these:
"Who is John Galt?" (hint: This is not SF or fantasy)
Memories haunted the Ghostwood, brittle as the twigs that splintered like tiny bones under Mark's boots.
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