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Unforgettable Opening Paragraphs
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:26 pm
by Dromond
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 ?
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 10:50 pm
by danlo
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." brownie pts. 2 whoever IDs the book 1st!
Of course I also like this one alot: "She came out of the store just in time to see her young son playing on the sidewalk directly in the path of the gray, gaunt man who stode the center of the sidewalk like a mechanical derelict."
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2002 10:42 pm
by Earthblood
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
What can I say ....short & sweet.
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2002 10:44 pm
by Earthblood
oh yeah, Danlo...I'm not an english lit scholar, but isn't that 'a tale of two cities'?
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 4:24 am
by Skyweir
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 6:09 am
by Foamfollower1013
Earthblood wrote:"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
Mm...that's a good one.
~Foamy~
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 11:02 pm
by danlo
5 Brownie Points 2 Earthblood!!!--Ok, now that we have and opening line trivia game going w/in this topic, ID this: "Call me Ismael..."
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 1:21 am
by Earthblood
Like I said, I'm no english lit scholar.....I'll take my brownies & run...
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 3:41 am
by Foamfollower1013
Moby Dick!
...How on earth did I know that?
~Foamy~
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 4:38 am
by Skyweir
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 5:00 am
by danlo
Good Job Foam! How about this 1 (It's alot tuffer
!!): " Most of the crowd at Mallory's Bar & Sleep over in Delta Sector had no idea what was really going on."
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 7:28 am
by Skyweir
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 3:35 am
by danlo
I bet u anything NO ONE will ever get this 1:
Long before we knew that the price of the wisdom and immortality we sought would be almost beyond our means to pay, when man - what was left of man - was still like a child playing with pebbles and shells by the seashore, in the time of the quest for the mystery known as the Elder Eddas, I heard the call of the stars and prepared to leave the city of my birth and death.
p.s.: Right u r, of course
Sky!
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 4:15 am
by Skyweir
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 4:22 am
by Dromond
Well, danlo- I for one am stumped! Beautiful sentence,however. I am curious to know the answer!
Here's one--
Taran wanted to make a sword; but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 4:26 am
by danlo
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 4:28 am
by Dromond
Well I guess you answered as I was posting Sky! Dam!! I type SLOW!! A blazin' 12 words a minute!! At least!
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2002 4:40 am
by danlo
Sky and aliantha r the only 2 folks on the Watch who've read any parts of the Neverness series--and of course Sky had 2 butt right in!
Dromond! Dang ur line is SO familiar--dang I kno that book--arrgh! It will drive me crazy--not Ivanhoe? No of course not....
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:59 am
by Dromond
Ivanhoe
No, not a classic in any sense like that! But a good fantasy story better than most! I'll let you smolder a while!
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2002 2:49 pm
by Lord Mhoram
Heres on of my favorite scenes, not exactly terribly profound, but unforgettable nontheless...
Once there were four children named Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy...
What book is that from?
