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Post by Salah~ on Sept 2, 2007 13:19:06 GMT -5
Any of the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books. Snickett starts off each book telling you that you should put the book down and find something happier to read. Heh, that's what I was about to say. Also: "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and generally been regarded as a bad move." --The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams.
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Post by Kat on Sept 2, 2007 18:56:22 GMT -5
Any of the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books. Snickett starts off each book telling you that you should put the book down and find something happier to read. [shadow=purple,left,300]And he has managed to create 13 different beginnings with the same message. XD One of the reasons why I'll miss the ASOUE series, as it's already over, like HP...[/shadow]
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Post by Luna on Sept 3, 2007 10:49:46 GMT -5
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That's a good opening that made me laugh and it just gets better from there.
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Post by Ish on Sept 3, 2007 21:56:47 GMT -5
Well, I've always been partial to:
"Call me Ishmael." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
^_^;; It is a classic.
Oh, and I also like "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
“This isn’t at all what I expected. In 1985, by some sort of journalistic accident, I was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine to look for an almost extinct form of lemur called the aye-aye. None of the three of us had met before. I had never met Mark, Mark had never met me, and no one, apparently, had seen an aye-aye in years.”
Sets the tone for the rest of the book. ^_^
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Post by Salah~ on Sept 4, 2007 6:44:56 GMT -5
Well, I've always been partial to: "Call me Ishmael." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick. ^_^;; It is a classic. Oh, and I also like "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. “This isn’t at all what I expected. In 1985, by some sort of journalistic accident, I was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine to look for an almost extinct form of lemur called the aye-aye. None of the three of us had met before. I had never met Mark, Mark had never met me, and no one, apparently, had seen an aye-aye in years.”Sets the tone for the rest of the book. ^_^ Ooh, I forgot that one. I love Last Chance to See! =D
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Post by Serene on Sept 5, 2007 20:04:36 GMT -5
Personally my favorite opening line is from Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment.
"Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving till your next birthday."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2007 21:28:46 GMT -5
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
Sorry, I just had to include it!
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Post by Salah~ on Oct 27, 2007 21:44:50 GMT -5
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." Sorry, I just had to include it! Of course. ^_^ Someone at my school claims to have started a story with the sentence: "The cheese was room temperature."
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Post by Dragon on Oct 28, 2007 17:08:23 GMT -5
"My name is Odd Thomas, though in this age when fame is the altar at which most people worship, I am not sure why you should care who I am or that I exist." ~Odd Thomas
This definitely pulled me in because I really don't get why people want fame so bad and why the world cares about their affairs.
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Post by Kengplant on Oct 28, 2007 22:19:43 GMT -5
All the Dune books have great beginnings "Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tradgedies." -Prologue of DUNE, The Butlerian Jihad "When humans created a computer with the ability to collect information and learn from it, they signed the death warrant of mankind -Sister Becca the Finite" -first chapter of Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert "Exerpts from the death cell interview with Bronso of Ix- Q: What led you to take your particular approach to the history of Muad'dib? A:Why should I answer your questions? Q: Because I will preserve your words. A: Ahhh! The ultimate appeal to a historian! Q: Will you cooperate then? A: Why not? But you'll never understand what inspired my Analysis of History. Never. You Priests have too much at stake to- Q: Try me." -prologue of Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert. There are some other great begginings but they're to long for me to bother typing out
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Post by Sammeh on Oct 29, 2007 1:39:04 GMT -5
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
"You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy." - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2007 15:00:57 GMT -5
"The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.
Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right. The scudding clouds did look a bit fishy, rippled into scales by a high-altitude wind. As the light faded, deep blue gaps of night peered through like an upside-down ocean, bottomless and cold." -Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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Post by Salah~ on Nov 3, 2007 19:47:44 GMT -5
"The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right. The scudding clouds did look a bit fishy, rippled into scales by a high-altitude wind. As the light faded, deep blue gaps of night peered through like an upside-down ocean, bottomless and cold." - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld I love that book. That's gotta win some kind of award for opening line.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2007 7:19:19 GMT -5
"The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right. The scudding clouds did look a bit fishy, rippled into scales by a high-altitude wind. As the light faded, deep blue gaps of night peered through like an upside-down ocean, bottomless and cold." - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld I love that book. That's gotta win some kind of award for opening line. But the ending line is awesome: "I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." Genius. That's gotta win some kind of award of ending line.
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Post by Salah~ on Nov 6, 2007 16:48:38 GMT -5
I love that book. That's gotta win some kind of award for opening line. But the ending line is awesome: "I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." Genius. That's gotta win some kind of award of ending line. The 'Greatest Cliffhanger Ever' award, perhaps? That ending line is amazing. ...think we're getting a little off-topic here, so I'll shut up. >>
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