Fave opening lines of books
 

So what are your favourite opening lines to any books (fiction or non-fiction doesn't matter).

One of my faves is from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (1963)

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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." George Orwell, 1984 (1949)

And thus was born a thousand pub quiz questions!

Trainspotting
" The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling."Attachment 193879

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My local The Works shop has both Trainspotting books on sale cheap at the minute, I had a quick look at them the other day and realised I'd struggle to read them because of the Scottish prose :lol:
Tolkien is easier to understand :lol:

Pretty much all of irvine Welsh's books can be a chore [emoji38]

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I don't understand why they've never been translated into English :lol:

It would lose so much, hell if you want I'll send a translation [emoji6]

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"Later, as he sat on the balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the past 3 months"

JG Ballard 'High-Rise'.

"It began as a mistake"
Charles Bukowski 'Post Office'

"We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.

A Game of Thrones

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"Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt."
John Dies at the End - David Wong

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He came out of the shadow beside the closed arcade and shambled towards Tanya. Funland by Richard Laymon

I always read the last page first. ;)

Isn't that a bit of a spoiler Dem?

Not really. I was just being a clever clogs with that post.:whip:

"I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running out of veins .... "

WS Burroughs - The Soft Machine.

Suppose The End is better than To Be Continued or knowing the book is left at a cliffhanger

Then I thoroughly endorse Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man B .... cough. ;)

Sounds like a typical night down the docks with Rondadoronron.

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No. Would be the epitome of animal cruelty to force a gorilla into a spacesuit ;)
Though thinking about it ...there's a two reeler in there somewhere (cue 3 Stooges music) :laugh:

They already did that on Robinson Crusoe on Mars

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And Robot Monster :laugh:

Ah, the fun we have ....