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Opening lines of famous literary works
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908271
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Some books hook you from the very first line. Whether it’s a chilling observation, a bold statement, or just something so strange you have to keep reading, a strong opening can set the tone for everything that follows.
Head to the 🔗 link in our comments for some of the best
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(I have always thought that the first sentence of James Leslie Mitchell’s SPARTACUS is up there with some of the great opening lines in literature …)
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"The main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story. This adventure is mine, Albert Campion's, and I am fairly certain that I was pretty nearly brilliant in it in spite of the fact that I so nearly got myself and old Lugg killed that I hear a harp quintet whenever I consider it."
Opening paragraph of The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham
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“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me."
https://fivebooks.com/book/rebecca-by-daphne-du-maurier/
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Some #books hook you from the very first line. Whether it’s a chilling observation, a bold statement, or just something so strange you have to keep reading, a strong opening can set the tone for everything that follows.
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Cliches to Avoid for an Original Novel Opening
#WritingCommunity #WriterCommunity #WriterLife #Clichés #Cliche #WritingAdvice #Advice #Tips #OpeningLineshttp://georgelthomas.com/2025/01/21/cliches-to-avoid-for-an-original-novel-opening/
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I see they're showing Neuromancer at the
waterside #cinema down on #RegentsCanalAnd I managed to catch the start too!!
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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2024 winners have been announced! Some of these are hilarious!
If you don't know what this contest is: "Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels." The novels do not actually exist.
https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2024
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It was a dark and stormy night, the inky pools of shadow in the sparsely furnished room punctuated only by jittery flashes of lightning and the throbbing #065a8f rather than #006699 blue background and glowing scroll of resolute white text and flirtatious lime green links as styled by the Modern Dark theme (for it is on Metafilter.com that our scene lies) emanating from the sleepless reader's laptop screen.
https://www.metafilter.com/205160/2024-Bulwer-Lytton-winners-announced
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#LynijahRussell #debated the #openinglines of her #video #application to #BrownUniversity for weeks before deciding to be as #candid about her #identity as possible.
“Hi Brown! My name is Lynijah, and I am a #Black #girl in #STEM"
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There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
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KARÁCSONY, Benő: Napos Oldal [The Sunny Side]
„Azóta, hogy szélnek eresztett az élet, mint egy darab fölösleges sajtpapírt, persze másként nézem a dolgokat meg a gyárigazgatókat.”
*rough* translation:
"Since life blew me away like a piece of unnecessary cheese paper, of course in a different way I look at the things and the factory managers."
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@mikebaarda @DocCarms @bookstodon I think you have a point, but it's kind of context-dependent. Personally, when I read that line, sure my interest is piqued a little, but I'm also immediately primed to be looking for an explanation of the things you mentioned, and I'm not likely to have a good time reading the story until I start getting that explanation (or at least some justification for why I need to wait for it, like if the POV character is trying to find out). So it's kind of a high-risk high-reward maneuver: an opening line that introduces mysterious terms for story elements (such as, but not limited to, characters) can backfire badly if the rest of the story doesn't deliver details at the right pace.
It's also definitely possible to overdo it by throwing so many unfamiliar terms at the reader so fast that they get turned off. Not the case here, of course, but other books definitely do it.
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