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vadeettufacsimiliter
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. And then the dragons arrived.
BurrhusBacchus
The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. And then the dragons arrived.
drziod
Run spot run, and then the dragons arrived
Rijtjeshuis
"It was love at first sight. And then the dragons arrived."
(Catch 22)
phalanxausage
I came here to post this. Good show!
JAPONfan
It was a dark and stormy night ... and then the dragons arrived.
logicalcatbear
I was looking through to see if anyone posted Wrinkle in Time yet.
keillrandor
My Father was a jazz musician who could never make a living at it. He tried a couple of times. And then the Dragons arrived...
keillrandor
(First book I picked out of the first box: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3128773-listen-to-the-blues. )
HomoSumHumaniAMeNihilAlienumPuto
The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault, and then the dragons arrived.
ForlornHopeful
That was my first thought as well
GCRust
I mean, with Harry that's entirely plausible.
niaskywalk
That is WAY better than the flaming poop flinging guardians that WERE there at the time...
niaskywalk
....kinda.... depends on whose side...
ItsFineImFineThanksforAsking
In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon and then the dragons arrived.
Sealkin
Good night moon... goodnight red balloon... and then the dragons arrived.
Promethianfire
Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight dragons everywhere.
Drix1942
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. And then the dragons arrived.
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
None sense there hasn’t been a dragon in these parts …
niaskywalk
Hah, that would've made the disappearance of Bilbo a lot more interesting
TalkingSnake
"Call me Ismael, and then the dragons arrived." - Moby Dick
thatwoodguy
Some years ago, never mind told many precisely.
BeerandCats
That's the first opening line that came to mind for me, glad I'm not the only one.
TalkingSnake
My first thought was "Mamman died yesterday" from The Stranger. But no one got that one.
AltruisticDefenestrator
For someonne who grew up in American legal life, one thing I love about this Nordic volume on Forensic Psychology is that it makes you think about whether the legal system you've known all your life is really the best one. And then the dragons arrived.
TeddyMoment
ihateimgurffs
In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf. And then the dragons arrived.
ThatOneFriendWhoTriesTooHard
I was wondering where the picture books were.
tinydog
And the very hungry caterpillar ate the dragons.
SkidMarc25
But he was still hungry
MaineMariners
Marley was dead to begin with: and then the dragons arrived.
TheShamkat
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. And than the dragons arrived.
Yakeshinu
I can't stand Kafka, but I'd give this version a chance. :D
TheShamkat
Try it, this story is worth it, ist available as a graphic novel too :-)
TheLovelessHummingbird
I was looking for this one! Glad Kafka is still our author buddy
CPTBRUMBL3Z
This sounds like the start of erotic furry smut. he transformed into a rodent (then again, armor like back could imply scales like that of a kobold so even more fitting) and then dragons show up?
KingXizor
In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing; and then the dragons arrived.
emarieshanks28
This should be much, much higher. Well done, you!
daliamonra
Well they arrived a little later in the book, but excellent choice, Sir.
mapa123
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this
world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's
and yet as mortal as his own... And then the dragons arrived.
Curii
Son of bitch, he stole my line.gif.... Allright, allright, I'll use another classic HG Wells book: 'LITTLE WARS is the game of kings—for players in an inferior social position. And then the Dragons arrived.' https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3691/pg3691-images.html
audioknob
YES I WAS JUST THINKING THIS... Admittedly with Richard Burton's voice
MyBigMouth
[Strings intensify]
Mithi
Is there any other way?
audioknob
Well there is the Liam Neeson one... But we don't really talk about it
daguq
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with god, and the Word was god, and then the dragons arrived.
wintermute93
This is basically the plot of Dark Souls but in reverse.
joewz
Then from the dark, they came and found the souls of lords within the word. Judas, first of the snitches, The Prostitute of Judea and her Daughters of Punters, Jesus, the Lord of Red Wine and his faithful drinking buddies... And a guy named Brian, so easily forgotten. With the strength of lords, they challenged the dragons.
GRZMNKY
atosicav
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen and then the dragons arrived.
dinocratic
Nineteen Eighty-Fire
Metallica93
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. And then the dragons showed up.
slartibartfastkhashour
I KNEW someone would post this, works in that world too!
DarkZalgo
Quentin did a magic trick. Nobody noticed. And then the dragons showed up.
Andaloup
Somehow, it feels like they would've preferred that to the baby on their doorstep.
HarryPottersCat
Hagrid would like that.
Schtubby
He'd finally be on time for once, the slouch!
Metallica93
"I shoul'n't'a sai' tha'. I shou' not 'ave sai' tha'." - Hagrid, probably
khora
ARRIVED!
Metallica93
Artistic license. "Showed up" sounded better.
ThatShiftyMonkey
"arrived" sounds better.
Metallica93
In this context? Not in the slightest.
Metallica93
In this context? Not in the slightest.
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. And a dragon.
Falkh12
Isn't that somewhat the plot of "How to tame a dragon"?
katidragon
BigKangDangaLangSlanga
Mr. Darcy, please get your shit together.
ScourgeOfAges
TellusEidolon
Username checks out
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
'It was the day my grandmother exploded. Then the dragons arrived
KeithSvenson
the fuck book has this opening line?
Unitedite
The Crow Road, by Iain Banks.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Yup!
nonickname23
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. And then the dragons arrived.
ojisama
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. And then the dragons arrived.
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
I was hardly involved
Snowdemoman
Smaug had a vision and decided, "Nope, roasting that one."
TurboZamboni
Amd you just cut Peter Jackson’s three picture deal down to a YouTube short. Thank you.
REVOLVER0CELOT
Nonsense there hasnt been dragons in these parts for a thousand years
Warune
CarnivorousRabbit
I mean... kinda?
ojisama
I'm pretty sure a wild Gandalf appeared
PaladinWiggles
CogPrimus
The abridged version is fucking abridged.
Andaloup
When the hobbit doesn't go to the dragon...
PutItInNeutral
If the main character doesn't move the story along, the story will move the main character along.
boardfuniguess
In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth but then the dragons... Hahaha
iputthefiresout
Genesis 1:21, the great "sea creatures" is the same word later used to refer to sea monsters or dragons. The same hebrew word is used to refer to leviathan
boardfuniguess
Very cool
DeadeicPrints
Can you imagine?
HereticNoNumber
Dragons?
DeadeicPrints
KoalaOnTheJuice
I'm actually pretty sure that first line had at least one dragon in it originally. Didn't it originally refer to a babylonian myth about a battle with a water serpent, if memory serves?
KoalaOnTheJuice
Yeah looked it up, the babylonian story which was widespread in the region when genesis was told had the storm god slaying the primordial water dragon of chaos and filleting her into the heavens and the earth. So when the bible refers to the storm god yahweh moving over the waters and separating heaven from earth people may have understood it referred to that battle.
FluffyCorgiAngel
I'd totally read that book.
boardfuniguess
Ya I'm pretty sure no one did lol but the thought of dragons taking over might have inspired a few creative minds to check it out
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Chronicles of Narnia.
KinkyTheWarrior
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair... Then the dragons arrived....
SometimesOthertimesAnytime
That definitely makes me want to read it more.
dripstone
I feel like this was already a movie...
daliamonra
Next line: And then they left.
Intrspace
It was the BLURST of times? You stupid monkey
uniquepseudonym
Is "blurst" mappable on to the clopen sets of a topological space?
KinkyTheWarrior
Vilgashem
I absolutely fucking hate A Tale of Two Cities. If I were to base my interest in reading on what I was forced to read in school, I’d be illiterate.
iguessihaveto
I had to read that and Les Miserables in the same semester of 9th grade, so somehow it made sense to hurt myself and choose to hate-read my way through 1984 at the same time? (I had a David Bowie phase and he had an album about it so it made sense at he time.) Rough going but let me tell you my speed reading was incredible after that...
eadanke
I really like both Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables, but neither of them do anything novel enough to be required reading.
Promethianfire
I taught HS English for a few years. I don't like it either.
Vilgashem
If I were a HS English teacher, I’d go rogue, and do a two months of Kurt Vonnegut, two months of John Steinbeck, and one special month of Ursula K. LeGuin.
Promethianfire
That's all good stuff, but I still adore Huck Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird. Lord of the Flies is also fun, even if the ending is unsatisfying. Native Son and/or Black Boy. Also, you've gotta have some Poe and Bradbury. And what about Orwell?
RTK4740
Oh come on! Sydney Carter sacrificing his life so the scoundrel look-alike could live with Lucy? That’s some good shit.
Promethianfire
The story of the book is fine. I just don't find it an enjoyable read.
Chimpanzeezeetop
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish; and then the dragons arrived
Promethianfire
Look what we found in the park in the dark.
We will take him home, we will call him Clark.
He will live at our house, he will grow and grow.
Will our mother like this? We don't know.
CeterumCenseo
One dragon, two dragon, red dragon, blue dragon.
SkidMarc25
One Dragon, Two Dragon. Red Dragon, Bad Dragon
TeddyMoment
This book is meant to help the reader learn how to program in C. It is the definitive reference guide, and then the dragons arrived.
qtRaven
BURN IT ALL DRAGONS!
TheFuckYounicorn
HERE BE DRAGON
JackHL01
As the prophecy foretold!
ZackWester
I feel like that could be a good silly start of a C programers for kids book. copy the adult version for the first 2 pages or so, then the dragon comes and you know wages war against the Academy (thats referenced in the book).
thatwoodguy
That's just the malloc command.
DaveSamsonite
Call me Ishmael. Then the whale dragon arrived.
kawkamawaq
Ohhhh. I like how this one ends.
dascypriot
zqwzzle
// Do NOT modify, here be dragons
erwinmahatma
That comment will be implemented in my work from now on. Thank you, fellow coder.
AyrA
Not even that far off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniques,_and_Tools?useskin=vector
b3n9
And let’s not forget the infamous (and amazing imo) wizard book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs
tinydog
O'Reilly!
manystripes
Ya'Reilly!
Derfboy
Auto PARTS!
jermprobably
This is where I went too! O-o-o O'Reilllyyy's. Autooo parts. BING!
mikeatike
YOW!
Mehlbox
Yes, indeed!
Lledargo
The C Programming Language was published by Pearson.
Detacheddavid
Actually by Prentice Hall
Lledargo
Good catch, Pearson actually published the 2nd edition.
lostinamapfactory
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. And then the dragons arrived.
Yakeshinu
FullmetalStarLord
Best one!
lozeldatkm
MedicLeftEye
This is dragon country!
htapoicoS
I don't even see much of a difference
Promethianfire
Yeah. Fits right in, doesn't it?
leicanthrope
No point mentioning those dragons, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.
madtadder
We can't stop here, this is dragon country!
lozeldatkm
We can't play this, this is Donkey Kong Country!
TerriblePokemon
This always bugs me because Bartsow is in the middle of the goddamn desert
vegivamp
So the edge of the desert is all around it? 🙂
ayavaska
We had two bags of nirnroot, seventy-five pellets of skooma, five sheets of high powered wisp wrappings, a salt shaker half full of frost salts, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of Black-Briar mead, a quart of Colovian Brandy, a case of Alto Wine, a pint of raw health pots and two dozen cheese .
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
Ijustsigneduptoupvotethis
@extraupvote please this needs more up votes
giganticroboticpenguin
updoot!
ButtTrumpett
F
Promethianfire
Ah, moon sugar. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some 2nd age Akaveri novel. tongue - total loss of all basic motor skills: blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue, the mind unable to communicate with the spinal collumn. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it.
ayavaska
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a khajiit in the depths of a moon sugar binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. And then the dragons arrived.
brianpmcmillan
You just made my day.
Popnitro
Which book, sounds familiar.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Stephen King, The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1)
PowerToAllThePeople
30 minutes into my first listen (audible)
alwaysupvotebeagles
Best audiobooks out there (fiction) IMO
ElbowDeepinAEldritchHorror
What book is that? :o
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Stephen King, The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1)
Dirtypillows
FullmetalStarLord
Just started reading!
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
You've got quite the ride ahead of you.
devolutionary
Thankee, sai.
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
Long days and plesent nights to thee.
chaylar
Long days, pleasant nights, and dragons to you Sai.
HarryPotter918
I LOVE these books!
MrSmilingDeath
I'm on the last book, but I have a real problem with starting books and then stopping for several months at a time.
AntaNce
you're good. start 'em up again later!
FabergeBurrito
You read my mind. Time for a reread of these books. A true work of art.
apostlepk
I wish I could read these for the first time again.
Bobbobbobobbananafanafobob
I love how the opening line is so good and yet tells you nothing about what's going to happen. I wish I could hear the pitch. Imagine the descendants of king arthur were cowboys who were chasing evil merlin (who is actually Johnny Cash with magic) oh and the world has already ended... And it gets wilder from there.
emeeker658201
What a shame that they did with the movie. I was so angry such a good series was turned into THAT!
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
I don't get why they don't make that story into a series with a couple of seasons
Ginoawesomesauce
I loved the movie. The books are impossible to turn into a film. The best King adaptations will be repugnant to King and those that love the books lol… let’s not forget what happens when you let King actually make his books into movies https://imgur.com/hzydPGf
didgeboy287
Patience. Mike Flanagan will make it all better.
Khagaan
Is he actually doing something with it? Or... are we hoping he is?
MrSmilingDeath
Yes he is.
Deadpool854
LordOfTheFleas
And then the dragons arrived.
prot34nv2
Each re-read is another turning of the wheel.
ShrimpFingers
I’ve read all but the final book multiple times. For some reason, I only pick it and get through a few chapters when something awful has happened, like a family member dying. Just can’t bring myself to finish the last book.
BreathBeStank
Great first novel, good second novel, okay third novel. Beyond that I felt like I was reading it just to see what happened to my favorite characters of the first 3
IIikethecutofyourjib
The train book was my absolute favorite
alwaysacleric
Drawing of the three was ok, the waste lands was ok, wizard and glass was fucking amazing, wolves of the calla was boring, song of Susannah was ok, the dark tower was ok. I wanted to like them, hell I wanted to love them, but I thought the series was just all around “ok”.
alwaysacleric
Don’t get me wrong though I’m happy I read them and each book had various moments where I couldn’t put it down.
md22mdrx
I feel kinda the opposite. Loved each of the books in the series EXCEPT for Wizard & Glass. HATED that book. Wife agrees. That book made her stop reading the series.
alwaysacleric
Hmm, I thought reading about young Roland and seeing why he is who he is during the rest of the books was a breath of fresh air. I couldn’t put it down.