Favorite opening line

[Maria]

What's your favorite opening line of a book?

 

Me, I have several, but one of the best ones is from William Goldman's "the Silent Gondoliers".

 

Everyone knows that the gondoliers in Venice are the greatest - correction, sorry - everyone used to know that the Gondoliers of Venice are the greatest singers in the world.

 

And I also like the very simple opening line of "Rebecca" by Daphne DuMaurier:

 

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

[Amavia]

*laughs*

 

I love those typical openings.

 

There once was a.....

 

Ah the memories of my youth...... :D

 

When I was young and cute.... :)

[JenniferL]

"The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed."

 

From The Gunslinger, by Stephen King. One of my favorite novels ever.

[Niamh Sedai]

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink"- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

 

"It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife"- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 

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[Maria]

I was definitely waiting for someone to post the Pride and Pred one. It does indeed rule.

[Kara_J]

*nods emphatic agreement* :D :D

[Safia al-Maaz]

I'm actually reading that book right now. I'm halfway through. I love Jane Austen ;)

 

"It was always messy, cleaning up after a murder. There was more than just blood to be washed off the tiles. There were all those awkward loose ends to be taken care of - alibis to be established, traitors to be paid off, witnesses to be slienced . . ."

~Wolfblade by Jennifer Fallon

 

I didn't much like the book, but that opening line is amazing!

[libertine]

My favorite's always been the opening of the novel Neuromancer, by William Gibson:

 

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

 

Set the mood *perfectly*.

[Maria]

"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."

 

That's from the Princess Bride. Can you tell I'm a big fan of William Goldman/S. Morgenstern? :P