What are your favourite first sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its first sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the first line?
My all-time favorite first line (I guess it's two lines, actually) is from Grace Paley's story The Loudest Voice from her collection The Little Disturbances of Man:
There is a certain place where dumb-waiters boom, doors slam, dishes crash; every window is a mother's mouth bidding the street shut up, go skate somewhere else, come home. My voice is the loudest.
This is good. Now I must get hold of the book!
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Here is my BTT post
That's a rather interesting first couple of lines... very visual and auditory.
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ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting one.
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ReplyDeleteLove it. It really sets the scene very well.
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http://readywhenyouarecb.blogspot.com/2008/07/btt-favorite-first-lines.html
I like how the first line ends. My voice is the loudest. Cool
ReplyDeleteThat's a good one!
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I'm really glad you all liked the first line - hope you get to read the rest of the story!
ReplyDeleteThat's a very interesting first line. :) Here's my list of favourite first lines.
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