What do you consider the best opening sentence from a book?

[OverMyHead]

Whether it's fiction or non-fiction?

 

[Drakon]

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

 

[Kaboom]

it was the best of times it was the worst of times.

 

[Drakon]

Oh man, that was rich. It couldn't have been timed better.

 

[Mr. Credible]

i really like the first line from "the rules of attraction" by brett easton ellis... it started right in the middle of a sentence, in the middle of a story. it was jarring, and pretty brilliant.

 

[OverMyHead]

uh.. is that the quote?

 

[Franklin Richards]

Call me, Ishmael.

 

[OverMyHead]

what book is that?

Please post the book so others will know.

 

[rdh007]

"In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit..."

 

[rdh007]

what book is that?

Please post the book so others will know.

 

[OverMyHead]

I know that's the Hobbit, cause it says Hobbit in the opening sentence, lmao.

I was talking to Richards.

 

[Franklin Richards]

"Call me Ishmael."

Moby Dick

 

[black_dust]

She took off all her wet clothes and hung them out to dry suddley the door bell rang.

 

[OverMyHead]

"Call me Ishmael."

Moby Dick

Blah.

Moby Dick sucked.

 

[OverMyHead]

She took off all her wet clothes and hung them out to dry suddley the door bell rang.

suddley, eh?

This is probably the worst opening ever, and the author needs to be banned.

 

[black_dust]

suddley, eh?

This is probably the worst opening ever, and the author needs to be banned.

Someone got out the wrong side of the bed and hasnt seen the multi quote option yet.

 

[spdrknight]

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

My favorite book series, and the very first Stephen King book I read. It changed my life.

 

[rdh007]

I know that's the Hobbit, cause it says Hobbit in the opening sentence, lmao.

I was talking to Richards.

That's why I posted the pic of Moby Dick.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

"i cant believe i lost my f**king ear bang bang"

have a nice day-mick foley

 

[Hush]

"Nick Naylor had been called many things since becomming chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, but until now no one had actually compared him to Satan."

Thank You For Smoking--- Christopher Buckley. This an amazing book and amazing movie.

 

[ultimatefan]

I love the beginning of Anna Karenina: "all happy families are the same, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".

The beginning of Chronicles of a Death Foretold is great too, "the day he was going to be killed", the book follows a character all through the day that he´s going to be killed, and you know it´s gonna happen right from the start, and even so it´s a total page-turner.

 

[ComicChick]

it was the best of times it was the worst of times.

not many know this, but that's not the entire opening sentence to A Tale of Two Cities.

The opening sentence is really the length of a paragraph.

One of the more recent books I've read was The Lovely Bones. The first line is My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.

 

[JLBats]

The opening sentence of Casino Royale.

 

[mightiest_mortal]

opening line from the last book i read....
"It was springtime. Time for Meg to start her vegetable garden"

 

[Kaboom]

Oh man, that was rich. It couldn't have been timed better.

it was pretty sweet.

The opening sentence of Casino Royale.

which would be what?