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My comments: There's the whole book right there, huh? No but really...the statement, the tone everything about this book starts right here and I love it. I'm sorta weird about this book. I think I have about 6 copies of it maybe more...
My comments: This was a cute YA novel, not my favorite but I adored the opening line. I actually preferred to read more about the dead guy than anything else.
My comments: The best part is the "thank you very much." The tone is brilliant. Every time I read this one, it puts a smile on my face.
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My comments: First of all, I loved this book. It was inventive, hilarious and pathetic all wrapped into one. Great opening line.
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Mina B.
8 comments:
I loved that first line from Marked. Made me laugh :) Haven't read the book though...
These are terrific opening lines. I always loves the one from Pride and Prejudice and Jekyll and Hyde. Awesome post.
Hi Mina! I adore first lines of books, especially those that are so excessive, so indulgent, that you can't help but laugh. Here's my favorite, from The Riddle of the Traveling Skull, by notorious pulp writer, Harry Stephen Keeler:
"I knew full well, when the Chinaman stopped me in the street that night and coolly asked me for a light for his cigarette, that a light for his cigarette was the last thing in the world he really wanted! I knew, in short, that he was up to something! For Chinamen, even in Chicago, that strange London of the West where most anything can happen, do not stop white men on the street and ask for lights—even though the said Chinamen are garbed in American apparel—as this particular one was when I first had dealings—of a sort—with him."
Genius.
Mina , love this collection - some I have not read or not read in years. Now I must go pull off my shelf. That 1st line from Marked would definitely keep me reading. I just finished my first YA zombie novel and love Jonathan Maberry's first line in Rot & Ruin: Benny Imura couldn't hold a job, so he took to killing.
You have some great choices. HP is one of my favorites too. Here's one that I love and have handy to share:
I stiffened at the red and blue lights flashing behind me, because there was no way I could explain what was in the back of my truck.
This is from Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost. Not only did I have to know what was in the back of the trunk, it does a great job of capturing Cat's voice.
I haven't read "Marked", but thought that was a great opening line. The same with "Dr. Jekyll". It's that ending about "somehow lovable", despite everything else that's been said.
I really like the opening line to "Peter Pan": "All children, except one, grow up.".
Great examples - love the one about the dead guy by the locker. That grabs you.
I thought of another great opening line, and it was too good not to add it, so please excuse the second comment:
"The opera ghost really existed." from "The Phantom of the Opera". It just feels like it's going to be a different sort of book. Not just a ghost, but the author is implying it might be a true story :).
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