The Best 100 First Lines From Novels »
Posted By shazam 6 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentThese are the 100 Best opening lines from novels, and maybe they'll convince you to go out and pick up the books they come from. Thankfully there's no chance for spoilers here.
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shead5 months, 4 weeks ago
Here's one from a recent fave "The Secret of Lost Things" by Sheridan Hay...
I was born before the story starts, before I dreamed of such a place as the Arcade, before I imagined men like Walter Geist existed outside of fables, outside of fairy tales.
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shead5 months, 4 weeks ago
And here's one that isn't on the list...
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up - Jack Kerouac, On the Road.
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nicholashorne5 months, 3 weeks ago
I reckon the most amusing first sentence is in PG Wodehouse's "The Luck of the Bodkins", published in the 1930s.
"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept
a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French".
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