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| 26 Titles With Catchy Opening Sentences Posted: 26 Jan 2014 05:20 AM PST
Love at first sight?Don’t judge a book by its cover they say. Sometimes you might even get a nudge saying that books don’t deserve to be judged by its title. However for some reasons, the opening sentence of a book may set the mood, leaves great memories or even make you crave for more. In no particular order…
(Free) Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Going Postalby Terry Pratchett
They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that it is in a body that, in the morning, is going to be hanged.
Slaughterhouse-Fiveby Kurt Vonnegut
All this happened, more or less.
One Hundred Years Of Solitudeby Gabriel García Márquez
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend'a was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
It was a pleasure to burn.
Holesby Louis Sachar
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
The Voyage Of The Dawn Treaderby C. S. Lewis
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
Neuromancerby William Gibson
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
The Strangerby Albert Camus
Maman died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegasby Hunter S. Thompson
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
(Free) A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens
Marley was dead, to begin with.
Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George Orwell
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
The Knife Of Never Letting Goby Patrick Ness
The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say.
(Free) The Call Of Cthulhuby H. P. Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Blood Ritesby Jim Butcher.
The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
The Crow Roadby Iain Banks
It was the day my grandmother exploded.
The Trumps Of Doomby Roger Zelazny
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try and kill you.
The Phantom Tollboothby Norton Juster
There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself – not just sometimes, but always.
(Free) The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
(Free) The Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslingerby Stephen King
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Gravity’s Rainbowby Thomas Pynchon
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
(Free) Pride & Prejudiceby Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
The Path Of Daggersby Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
Fight Clubby Chuck Palahniuk
Tyler got me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, “The first step to eternal life is you have to die.”
Ugliesby Scott Westerfeld
The early morning sky was the color of cat vomit.
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