Malone

Oh, cool. I'm reading that right now.
It's not the first sentence, that's what threw me off.

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Malone

Oh, cool. I'm reading that right now.
It's not the first sentence, that's what threw me off.

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Ari Mar

I agree with Kane.
I loved The Dark Tower series, although the ending killed me. Quite literally, it jumped out of the book and smashed my face in with a rock.

Ah, King. He's a wizard.

Sam Winchester

The decision to bomb the office of the radical Jew lawyer was reached with relative ease. - John Grisham, The Chamber.

IrishLad

"The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there'."
--Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

Not my all-time favorite (Moby Dick has already been mentioned), but I find it chilling in its drab simplicity, nonetheless. It sets the tone for what follows with almost sociopathic indifference.

CodeRed

Not long after the Christlight of the world's first morning faded, when birds still flew to heaven and back, and even the wickedest things shone like saints, so pure was their portion of evil, there was a village by the name of Hangtown that clung to the back of the dragon Griaule, a vast mile-long beast who had been struck immobile yet not lifeless by a wizard's spell, and who ruled over the Carbonales Valley, controlling in every detail the lives of the inhabitants, making known his will by the infectious radiations emanating from the cold tonnage of his brain. (Phew!)
The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter, by Lucius Shepard

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shraga

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany."

- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

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Pease critique my humor for Chompers (744 words)

Tiamat10

"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge."

-The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Actually, I'm another one who swears by the famous "Call me Ishmael" but this one's a favorite of mine as well.

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Vegas

"Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice..."

Mario Puzo - The Godfather

"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

(Purely for the WTF of it):

"Louie pulled off his bra and threw it down upon the casket."

Nick Toshes - In the Hand of Dante

Twistedtree

I'd deffo read that one ^^

Malone

Nick Toshes must be fairly obscure, because I couldn't find anything by him at my library, nor online at most of the sites I usually can find nearly anything on.

I'm sure Amazon has him, but I don't pay for books if I can help it (because I'm poor). I'd like to check him out, though, that opening line is pretty kick ass.

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SevenWritez

The opening line of my all-time favorite novel.

"We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk..."

Number9Dream, David Mitchell. That man is a fucking brilliant writer. If any of you here happen to be one of those "I like me t3h literary books only cuz mainstream sux lol," then I'd suggest Cloud Atlas. The opening pages suck too hard to explain, but once Mitchell hits his stride, that book is a beat-you-over-the-head Tour De Force.

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lin

I just never saw that a super first line. (Or Moby Dick as a super novel, actually)

I mean, it's like saying "My name's Jerome" What's the big deal?

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Vegas

I picked the book up at the airport about 4 or 5 years ago, read it. It was pretty good, kind of a more stylish Dan Brown thing, some guy tracking down the manuscript of the inferno and discovering church secrets or something. The only thing that really stuck out in my mind is that first quote.

Appears I had a typo in there. its TosChes, maybe that will help, I think the bio said he was an editor for vanity fair, but this was years ago.

dead_soul

My first line in my fantasy novel is "Mommy, look! It's the purple weirdo! Pleath, pleath, athk him to do thome magic."

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