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notanevilgenius
"The gunman is useless, I know it, he knows it, the whole bank knows it."
RHexagon
"It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts."
Studoku
"And then the murders began."
theyar
A lot of these are just first lines, not compelling ones.
FYeahLeapDay
Ive read 6 of these. I need to read more. I miss reading.
Heiligkind
"In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part ...
KharnApproves
I was there the day Horus killed the Emperor.
TheCrawlingChaosNyarlathotep
"This is not for you"
LEJ316
Properly underrated.
JoehioButNobodyUnderstandsTheReference
“Call me Ishmael”? Person writing that list doesn’t like big white whales
Drzhivago138
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore,
Drzhivago138
I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
SunshineRose
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Col. Aureliano Buendía was to remember that afternoon his father took him to discover ice
SunshineRose
From 100 years of Solitude
DeadHamster
Howls Moving Castle was a originally a book? Shit I know what I'm reading next.
thealienwarrior
bought it on amazon kindle 3 days ago. can't wait to read it.
swimmer19
It's really good! There are more books in the series, too. Not really sequels, but related.
etameta
"Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within (1/2)
etameta
this huge apartment building during the previous three months." (2/2)
Brochiavelli
Which book is this? Sounds right up my alley.
ManannanMacLir
High Rise
Buddy77
"One pitch black, very dark knight"
PopeMelvin
It was the day before yesterday, and I was dead.
CardioVascular
What book?
PopeMelvin
The Brightonomicon by Robert Rankin
Voltair
Seeing that fuck huge sentence for A Tale of Two Cities reminds me of how much I hate that book.
bootinyri
Fun fact: Charles Dicken's publisher paid him by the word. That's why his descriptions went on for fucking pages.
Voltair
I know. We had to write stuff about why his wor was so long but the only answer is he was paid by the word.
WussupVoltage
"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. >
WussupVoltage
The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. >
WussupVoltage
And Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail."
ApexCactus
"All of this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true." - Slaughterhouse - Five.
Inmydefensethemoonwasfull
In a book by Alan Alda. "I was seven years old the first time my mother tried to kill my father."
Inmydefensethemoonwasfull
Thank you.
kenta89
Did you thank yourself?
Inmydefensethemoonwasfull
No. Whoever gave me an up vote.
ExplainingTheJokeIsFunnierThanThePunchline
RampantRabbid
Wish i could unsee the awful film. Suzanne Collins is a hack.
uchytjes
Eh, at least it was better than the Twilight craze.
emkev
FeartheMindKiller
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
happytreeleaf
Then what?
bigbattaboom
Walden: Or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Zutier
"It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope by this statement that I am not his murderer."
Zutier
"and yet i hope to shew by this document" <---- forgot a few words
WussupVoltage
Which one is that?
Zutier
the thing on the doorstep by H.P. Lovecraft
NPCommentator
The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault."
HairyPicklePuller
Selerox
"Blood Rites" by Jim Butcher. Book 6 of the phenomenal urban fantasy series The Dresden Files.
ravelingRuh
that's a rare occurrence in his case to be fair.
somenerandom
Yeah well that's what happens when your go to spell is a fucking fireball
HairyPicklePuller
It does extra damage. With all the Faye creatures he fights lightning would drain his opponents magic quick enough to be useful.
sindex52
"I'm pretty much fucked." - The Martian
TrumpisaMiniBoss
EIonMusk
One of the best books ever
ErrareHumanumEww
Well now, lets not go there. Its a great read, fun and all, but not even close to one of the best books ever.
somenerandom
I honestly can't imagine giving something that title. Like...there's a lot of books. I think I'm an avid reader but I've read what, 100,>
somenerandom
150, 200 max? There is so much I'll never get to read. Shit.
himynameisRi
Books are so subjective compared to things like movies. Some of my favourite books are trashy romances.
Ragionier
It was a dark and stormy night
DeadOnionSaysWhat
-Snoopy
AdmJota
I don't think _Paul Clifford_ is a famous book. I couldn't even remember the title without looking it up just now.
thejon
I love 'The Name of the Wind', but hate that it needs the entire prologue to find it's beauty. Otherwise, it's just "It was night again".
somenerandom
When I re-read it, I just skip the prologue. It's great worldbuilding for a first read, but annoying when you know what's coming next.
HeadlessBodyOfSpiroAgnew
Shame we’ll never get the last book
thejon
"It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die" is a great line, tucked WAY at the end of the prologue.
BlindDoomWatcher
It was a silence of three parts.
HorribleMonster
Upvote for you for mentioning one of my favourite books.
Prestersean
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
TheSecondBestOne
Just started Neuromancer, what are the odds?
JakeHawke
Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer)?
JakeHawke
Wow. Down-voted for guessing a wrong but perfectly reasonable answer before anyone else had? Someone's being a little bitch today...
PenisShapedPoops
The whole book has great imagery, one of those you feel like you can see it.
masterchiefan
What's that quote from, if I may ask?
Selerox
"Neuromancer" by William Gibson. The man who pretty much invented cyberpunk as a concept.
AdmJota
_Neuromancer_ by William Gibson.
youmayalsolike
William Gibbson "Neuromancer Trilogy", you should read that!
masterchiefan
Thank you very much!
somenerandom
Sounds like urban fantasy. Is it urban fantasy? I need some urban fantasy.
youmayalsolike
Immagine 5th Element but more crazy and broken - fantastic! :-)
MyFrontPorchInMississippi
Hunger games has no god damn business there.
WingardiumLeviosass
Good legacy? Undoubtedly. Good opening? Maaaybe not.
MyFrontPorchInMississippi
I disagree entirely. Shallow useless books
WingardiumLeviosass
It examined how people are damaged by war. Katniss ends up with Peeta, the person who could understand the trauma of the Games, not Gale
sdrahcirxel
I really enjoyed the books tbf, much much better than the movies.
MyFrontPorchInMississippi
I didn't. Shallow and useless. Does not belong among the greats
MargousteTheMangouste
Hunger Games is one of the best dystopian story written for teens. It speaks of the way politicians control populations with media, of 1/?
MargousteTheMangouste
Of propaganda, of the cost for rebellion, of the fact that the "good guys" will also kill use it and kill innocents to get what they want 2/
MargousteTheMangouste
And if offers a very sharp view of the way reality shows can quickly transform into something unethical and how our society is alarmingly 3/
MargousteTheMangouste
Close in some ways of the horror of Panem. It is a series I highly recommend to any teenager, to have some perspective of where we are 4/5
MargousteTheMangouste
Now, and where we are going. Of how the limit between a democracy and a dictature is thin. 5/5
highexpectations
Im confused.. "catcher in the rye" mentions David Copperfield.. the book was written in 51' yet he wasn't born until 56'
MargousteTheMangouste
It refers to Charles Dickens' novel "David Copperfield", not the american illusionist.
ttlspunks
He means the book "David Copperfield" by Dickens
MrJosephNorth
Had to look it up cuz I saw that too. Apparently it's referencing a Charles Dickens character, not the illusionist.
highexpectations
I just figured that out lol, thank you
highexpectations
Nevermind, I guess David Copperfield was the name of a book written by Charles Dickens.. and the magician named himself after it
DeadOnionSaysWhat
Thanks, you gave me a giggle. I didn't make it through C in the R, hope you had better luck.
SirRulean
CD also wrote Great Expectations...which your username seems to have been formed of.
HeadlessBodyOfSpiroAgnew
I’m confused why so many people love that book. It is my least favorite by a large margin. Holden is the absolute worst
highexpectations
Worst required school reading for me was: a tale of two cities, great expectations, and the pearl.. basically anything Dickens or Steinbeck
Caphalor
I started reading all the classics for fun but I quit for ages when I got to that one. It's not very interesting to me
ANUS2K14
That's the point. Holden is a self-obsessed college kid weho thinks he knows everything. It's why the book is so significant.
ANUS2K14
Salinger created a terribly real character in an incredibly true to life way.
HeadlessBodyOfSpiroAgnew
He was 16 and had everything handed to him and did nothing but bitch. Maybe I was just too old when I read it.
HypersonicHero
I find it's the last paragraph to be the most poignant.
Zreen
And so the hero's poop travelled down the sewer, reaching waste processing center, where via a strange set of coincedences... woke up.
BishlamekGurpgork
I! AM! HEROPOOP!
LimJayhey
"He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." My English teacher told me more than one person threw the book when finished.
ThisCommentisaTideAd
He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long;
ThisCommentisaTideAd
his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.
MordorGate
Great Gatsby’s last sentence is IMO far better than its first
MissSpelledTattoo
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
MordorGate
Thank you
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
I like reading the last sentence first. It usually doesn’t make any sense, but it’s fun!
locastil
Same! Well. I read the last page first. Then it's a puzzle for me on how the book gets there.
HypersonicHero
He came like the wind, like the wind he touched everything, like the wind he was gone.
Salpinus
Ha! I finished that 2 hours ago! All 14 books done since Xmas now
iwillcutoutyourheartwithaspoon
The wind in the willows?
HypersonicHero
Wheel of time
MyPalmsSpaghettiKneesWeakArmsSpaghettiTheresVomitOnMySpaghetti
Maybe so, but there are 2 problems of switching out the first for last here: 1) the first few lines hook and reel in readers; 2) spoilers!
Zyngard
I would say mine but... Wheel of Time’s last paragraph is very confusing with no context
pixarpizza
Go for it
HypersonicHero
Didn't want to spoil it for future readers. Figured those who know would know it
Zyngard
That too
HypersonicHero
Check out Malazan Book of the Fallen
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
The 1st line of my fave book: ‘The primroses were over.’ Part of last line: ‘...where the first primroses were beginning to bloom.’
nouseforaheart
Watership Down!
TheZombombie
What book?
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
Watership Down. My favorite book. There was a movie in 79, a kids series in 99 and I’m impatiently waiting for Netflix to air a new series.
DireSnails
Just a sweet little story about some fluffy bunnies!
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
I’m impatiently waiting for the Netflix series. All last year it said 2017. Now it says 2018, still with no specific date.
DireSnails
I'll give it a watch, but the old movie still fucks with me to this day.
Brochiavelli
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
FlyingDeetus
Long days and pleasant nights to you, you trig person you.
HeWhoPours
Every time this fuckin' picture is posted, hahah. Good series.
Acegammer5
Literally read this line, then went and paid for the book. I had a need to know how it continued.
TowerJunkie
The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts....
EZBzzzzzz
My favorite opening line of any book.
MegaDeuce
I remember thinking "He's gonna catch this guy by the end of the chapter. He's fucked!"
nothingtodoandalldaytodoit
That new "Man In Black" prequel with Tommy Lee Jones as Johnny Cash looks great.
Ligatura
Thanks. The last time i saw this picture on imgur i still had to search the comments for this line.
imonlyherecausetheappmademesignup
Gave me goosebumps!
kenta89
I love that line! Couldnt get myself into the rest of the book though. Might try again sometime
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CrackerJackPrize
It’s also his best ending.
nothingtodoandalldaytodoit
Really loved that prequel "Man In Black". Tommy Lee Jones was awesome portraying Johnny Cash growing up.
Brochiavelli
MASSIVE SPOILER ON THIS SECTION OF COMMENTS.
somenerandom
That being said, being a fan of King and a HUGE fan of fantasy, I never managed to finish this series. It lost me at some point.
Allanonshea1
My da didn't have all the books so I got to the end of the 3 doors and i was like... Nooooooo
aolyahooaltavista
It lost me when King wrote himself into the fucking books.
somenerandom
Btw yeah I think I gave up around there too. Not because of that, per se, the plot itself just stopped appealing to me somehow.
plouffi
It's actually my second favorite opening from King. My all time favorite is the opening from The Body.
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plouffi
"The most important things..." The whole first paragraph gets me all choked up because I feel like that all too often.
Beeblebrox2nd
What's this one? It's not for a friend, it's for me.
Equinox13
I believe it's "The Gunslinger" by Stephen King, the first in his Dark Tower series.
Beeblebrox2nd
Thanks
Madbull34
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Beeblebrox2nd
Thanks