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My Favourite Openings/First Lines:
“Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache.”
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Interesting problems Joost, what’s next?
The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car.”
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
This sentence just lets you know that you’re in for a hilarious and amazing series.
“It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure.”
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Doesn’t that just make you want to know what’s going to happen? I’m intrigued (and I’ve read the series before.)
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
If that isn’t such perfect foreshadowing, I don’t know what is.
We must, by law, keep a record of the innocents we kill. And as I see it, they’re all innocents. Even the guilty.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Intriguing, no?
What books have the best openings? Which of my choices do you agree with or which ones do you think are silly and obviously not the best? Let me know in the comments!
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25 responses to “Openings/First Lines – Top 5 Tuesday”
I was so mad by the end of the delirium series.. it was such a good concept but the delivery was annoying and so so bad.
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I agree, it’s one of those the ‘premise is more intriguing than the execution’ books
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I kind of figured I would see Six of Crows on your list as well! And wow! Scythe makes quite an impact! I think I need to add that one to my TBR!!
Thanks for participating – added you to the list 🙂
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Oh yeah, that book is fantastic. I didn’t know I was going to like it but got hooked!
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I LOVE this topic idea! I’m now going to read as many of these as possible!! I didn’t know the concept for Delirium so that’s interesting to know!
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Yeah, Shanah comes up with the best prompts!
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I’ve seen Six of Crows everywhere today! It makes me want to read it even more!
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You definitely should! I always recommend it to people.
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I have read and loved Delirium! Now if you want to guess mine today is game day LOL
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Oh nice, I’ll have to check it out!
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I had Scythe on my list too! And Six of Crows was close to making it. Love it!
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Oh nice!
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Loveeeeeeeeeeee those first two ones. I didn’t remember SOC started off like that. Wonderful picks, Kyera!! ❤
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I honestly had to search because I didn’t remember a single first line on my own. But shhh don’t tell anyone that. 😂
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Ahahahaha I was going to say that I was super impressed that you had all of these. Like, I thought about it and I was like, I can’t remember a single first line of any book besides Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
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Bahaha nope that’s exactly how I was. And next week is last lines, so google to the rescue again!
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Ahahaha oh gosh, no. I can give you The Great Gatsby’s last line if that helps??? XD I think that’s even worst.
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Sure, maybe it’ll even make it in!
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Last line: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Only thing I ever remembered from an ending from the book. XD
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Haha okay, I added it. I need a good classic on the list.
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YES. My useless book memory helped out for like two seconds.
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All these lines are so cool 😍❤ great post ❤ and hey I am new here😇
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Thanks!
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