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The first line
LizW65:
--- Quote from: Noey on March 12, 2008, 03:44:20 PM ---Awesome. This gives me a great big gift basket full of demonic happy. I wanna read the rest of that story, Liz.
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There's no "rest" as of yet, but you're welcome to write it if you like. :)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on March 12, 2008, 03:31:02 PM ---"It was a stark and dormy night at Miskatonic U."
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Go 'Pods !!!
LizW65:
"Hamsters make indifferent pets, and even worse grenades."
"Lady Victoria Templeton stretched langourously on the blue silk cushions of her fainting couch, and waited for the 'shrooms to kick in."
I know, I know, I'm just being silly now.
(And it's off topic, but I want to give a nod to my favorite exit line of all time, from my favorite play: "I'll be reveng'd on the whole pack of you.")
Starbeam:
One opening line that's stayed with me since I read it was: "Death drove a green Lamborghini." It's from a Dean Koontz book, but hell if I remember which one. Which goes to show that a book can have a great catching first line, but that the book doesn't hold up to it.
What gets me to read a book comes in steps. First I'll read titles, look at the artwork, then read the blurb. If the blurb sounds interesting, I'll read the first line. If I like the first line, I'll skim the first paragraph/page. Then if it still sounds interesting, I'll likely buy it and bring it home, and annoy my b/f because he says I devour books.
meg_evonne:
having just seen an adaptation of Tale for Two Cities in children's theater....
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." for openers and
for closing: "It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done before."
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