Post by WatsonSword on Jan 12, 2009 23:18:31 GMT -5
Over the past couple weeks I've been developing a kind of temporary hobby, of which I've not been very successful.
What it is, is that I've been trying to list as many of the greatest opening lines ever from novels... that is, the ones that were ignored by the snobs of American Book Review.
...thusfar, I've only got three.
"MARLEY was dead: to begin with."
~Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol.
"Bilbo Baggins lived in a hole in the ground."
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger pursued."
~Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Anyone care to add anything more?
What it is, is that I've been trying to list as many of the greatest opening lines ever from novels... that is, the ones that were ignored by the snobs of American Book Review.
...thusfar, I've only got three.
"MARLEY was dead: to begin with."
~Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol.
"Bilbo Baggins lived in a hole in the ground."
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger pursued."
~Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Anyone care to add anything more?