Kane

Neither is the sky.

swimfanatic

Yeah, kind of what I was thinking when I first read it, which is why I found it interesting.


Pretty stupid attempt at parodying Gibson's opening line in Neuromancer. Never heard of that book. Sorry.

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Anarkos

Gibson's Neuromancer is a novel that helped to create a genre. It is, in many ways, groundbreaking. Like so much of Gibson's work, it has some clear flaws, but, damn, when Gibson writes well, Gibson writes well.

Interesting note: When he wrote it, if you tuned your TV to a channel without signal, you'd get static. So what Gibson was saying was that the sky was like static; black, grey, silver, changing rapidly etc. Great image. Now, on most new TVs, dead channels are shown as a revolting blue. This also works as a comparison to the sky...just a completely different one.

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Sir Jorah

That was a great one. And a great book. That was the first Koontz novel I'd ever read, and got me hooked.

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
-Stephen King, Gunslinger

This one was great too.

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Neo

People are afraid to merge in Los Angeles.

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TinyMachines

I want to say that's from a palahniuk book. I know that line. (invisible monsters?)

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Der_Parvenu_Meister

its in that book he wont shut up about, less than zero by Ellis

CircusFolk

"At times Cley thought that she was, well, a bit too intense. She seemed to have too much personality for one person and yet not enough for two."
Beyond Inifinity by Gregory Benford

"In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisbility actually exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three."
Howl's Moving Castle by Diane Wynne Jones

"Not wanting to arouse Vishnu in case he hadn't died yet, Mrs. Asrani tiptoed down to the third step above the landing on which he lived, teakettle in hand."
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

"My grandfather spent his life mending fences. So much of his life that it seemed like a religion. Though shalt not let thy barbed wire sag."
All we Know of Love by Katie Schneider

"Midway this way of life we're bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, Where the right road was wholly lost and gone."
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno by Dante

This is excluding some of the other wonderful ones that have been mentioned from works such as Lolita, Moby Dick, The Gunslinger, and various Douglas Adams' books.

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swimfanatic

I liked the All We Know of Love one that you posted by Katie Schneider, though I can't say I've ever heard of it.

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Joe Moore

“The seller of lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm.”
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

Der_Parvenu_Meister

"And even as I stared at his dead body, I STILL couldnt believe it wasnt butter,"

- The laughing Cow, "behind the laughter".

Hobbes

"When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta."

Just finished reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. What a book...

bob rulz

I'm gonna have to agree with:

"The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglass Adams

Best one yet. It can't get any more "WTF?" than that. Haha.

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What?

Okay, I just read it for the 8th time (no exaggeration, I counted them), and finally got it. But still...

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What?

LadyPenelope

I'd like to second the previous Douglas Adams ones. That man was a genius. I love the Hitchhiker's series.
I'd also like to add 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' from I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith. Probably my favourite book, and that line is great. So simple.

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Lunatic

I was stealing salt shakers again.

Apathy by Paul Neilan
(This book is brilliant and totally, completely, absolutely crazy.)

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