Top Ten Tuesday – Top Ten Favorite Beginnings/Endings In Books
Welcome to another edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish! This weeks top 10 are “Top Ten Favorite Beginnings/Endings In Books”
For this I am going to do my top ten favorite opening lines for books.
1. Perchance to Dream (Theatre Illuminata, Book 2) by Lisa Mantchev
First Sentence: “It is a truth universally acknowledged,” Mustardseed said, flying in lazy loops like an intoxicated bumblebee, “that a fairy in possession of a good appetite must be in want of pie.”
2. The Gates by John Connolly
First Sentence: “In the beginning, about 13.7 billion years ago, to be reasonably precise, there was a very, very, small dot.”
3. Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Prequel) by Steve Hockensmith
First Sentence: “Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one’s own was beyond the pale.”
4. First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, Book 5)
First Sentence: “The dangerously high level of the stupidity surplus was again the lead story in The Owl that morning.”
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
First Sentence: “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.”
6. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
First Sentence: “I am an invisible man.”
7. Neuromancer by William Gibson
First Sentence: “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
First Sentence: “It was a pleasure to burn.”
9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
First Sentence: “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”
10. A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
First Sentence: “Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you’re dead.”