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"When we were eight, Dad cut me open from throat to stomach." Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy.
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Colin wrote: ""When we were eight, Dad cut me open from throat to stomach." Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy."Great book!
The opening of David Eddings' The Diamond Throne stays with me over the years. Sets the tone with nice alliteration, but it is a full paragraph. First part here:It was raining. A soft, silvery drizzle sifted down out of the night sky and wreathed around the watchtowers of the city of Cimmura, hissing in the torches on each side of the broad gate and making the stones of the road leading up to the city shiny and black. A lone rider approached the city.
"It was in that year when the fashion in cruelty required not only the crucifixion of peasant children, but a similar fate for their pets as well, that I first met Lucifer and was transported into Hell; for the Prince of Darkness wished to strike a bargain with me."The War Hound and the World's Pain
The opening line of Moorcock's legendary Von Bek Eternal Champion sequence is one my favorite beginnings in all of fantasy literature. Mesmerizing, eloquent and unforgettable.
"Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the End of the World, and goblins had been at the cellar again. Mrs. Scattergood—the landlady at the Seven Sleepers Inn—swore it was rats, but Maddy Smith knew better. Only goblins could have burrowed into the brick-lined floor, and besides, as far as she knew, rats didn’t drink ale."Runemarks by Joanne Harris
Jim wrote: "“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife’s grave. Then I joined the army.”Old Man's War by John Scalzi"
Yep, that opener hooked me.
Jabotikaba wrote: ""Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the End of the World, and goblins had been at the cellar again. Mrs. Scattergood—the landlady at the Seven Sleepers Inn—swore it was rat..."I have this book sitting on my shelf! Not my Goodreads shelf but my real life bookshelf. You just convinced me to get to reading it.
Old Man's War by John Scalzi