Best opening lines in a book
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Frances Mary Hendry, Quest For A MaidWhen I was nine years old, I hid under a table and heard my sister kill a king.
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suddenly declared myself a mountain climber and took on the highest summit of each continent—the Seven Summits. Only sixty-five Americans have survived this quest. I am
the sixty-fifth."
This is from the Altitude Journals by David J. Mauro. Very inspiring book!
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein
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Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
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The Godfather, Mario Puzo
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American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
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‘David Copperfield’, Charles Dickens (1849)
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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605)
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George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)
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"It began as a mistake"
Post Office by Charles Bukowski.
This line has a sense of humour and suspense. Begs the question " what began as a mistake?"
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times.
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