Great Opening Sentences In Fiction (1 Viewer)

[Mitchum]

My current favourite is:
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."

Murphy, Samuel Beckett.

What's yours?

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Can it be the opening sentence of a paragraph?

 

[Mitchum]

Can it be the opening sentence of a paragraph?

Maybe you should colour your books in before replying to this thread.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Seeing as your the only person in world who's read a bit there really wasn't much point in asking anyone else was there?

 

[Stereobaby]

My current favourite is:
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."

Murphy, Samuel Beckett.

What's yours?

You're really deep, Mitchum.

 

[Mitchum]

You're really deep, Mitchum.

Have a banana.

 

[ITalkShite]

Guys, cop on; you're totally ruining Mitchum's very important thread.

 

[Yurn!]

You're really deep, Mitchum.

there appears to be an ocean of melancholy in his heart

 

[Mitchum]

Seeing as your the only person in world who's read a bit there really wasn't much point in asking anyone else was there?

Yes. I'm the only person on Thumped who has ever read a work of fiction.

Jesus Wept.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

It was a day, like any other day, in that Linus got up, faced the sunrise, used his inhaler, applied that special cream between his toes, wrote a quick note and put it in a bottle, and wished he'd been stranded on the island with something other than 40 cases each of inhalers, decorative bottles, and special toe cream.
Chris Harget

 

[Mitchum]

there appears to be an ocean of melancholy in his heart

There are more things in heaven and hell, Horatio than being a 'comedy' troll on a backwater webhole.

 

[ITalkShite]

Mitchum is a quite beckettian character, truth be told.

 

[Stereobaby]

Yes. I'm the only person on Thumped who has ever read a work of fiction.

Jesus Wept.

I can read you like a book, and not a very good book. Certainly not Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNabb.....

 

[Mormon Nailer]

There are more things in heaven and hell, Horatio than being a 'comedy' troll on a backwater webhole.

I'd rather be the clown than Polonius any day.

 

[ITalkShite]

Not!




























Heheheheheh.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Also the quote is "there are more things in heaven and earth" not "heaven and hell"

Dumb prick

 

[Yurn!]

'Enterprise feels like a house with all the children gone...'

Opening sentence of the novelisation of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock by Alan Dean Foster.

 

[Hector Grey]

fiction is it?
cool.

 

[nEiLo]

Once upon a time...something, something
I must get my parents to read to me again

 

[Scientician 0.8]

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
Famous one that, from Neuromancer by William Gibson.