Comments on: The 25 Best Opening Lines in Western Literature

By: Preston

Preston — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:33:25 +0000

This list is very good, but this one might be my favorite:
“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and was is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
-Alice in Wonderland

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:55:05 +0000

Oops! I just realized how many other people quoted from The Gunslinger. Either way, Kudos to you, fellow Constant Readers. That line…i can’t even explain it. It’s the only one I’ve read that–in my personal opinion–compared to: “It was a pleasure to burn.”-Ray Bradbury

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:51:07 +0000

JUST so you all know, I’m a Stephen King fan (i guess you could say fanatic). But i still think Fahrenheit 451’s first line is the best EVER written.

“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years–if it ever did end–began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.”-Stephen King; IT

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”-Stephen King; The Gunslinger

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 17 May 2011 01:40:41 +0000

“I came to Comala looking for my father, some man named Pedro Paramo.” Pedro Paramo

By: Trish Jensen

Trish Jensen — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:24:59 +0000

“Eternity was a bloody bore.”

Lynn Kerstan and Alicia Rasley (Book title is escaping me!)

Also loved, “Who is John Galt?”

Read that book for the first time when I was eleven. My brother-in-law kept leaving me notes all over the place: “Who is John Galt? When you can answer that, we’ll talk.”

By: nomin

nomin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:11:12 +0000

the beginning of “OF MICE AND MEN” should be here toooooooooo

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:44:07 +0000

what about jeremy fink and the meaning of life?

‘My sweat smells like peanut butter.”

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:17:21 +0000

How about Daphne Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’?

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”

Love that one!

By: Kat Healy

Kat Healy — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:59:46 +0000

“The last camel died at noon.” Ken Follett, Key to Rebecca

By: Wolf Rock

Wolf Rock — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:28:43 +0000

Need a hug, Nate? I am certain that young Nate did not intend to stop the party. Continue, guys. You’re doing great!