Comments on: BTT Favorite First Lines

By: kegsoccer

kegsoccer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:06:07 +0000

I can’t believe I’ve never read GWTW. I really need to do that!!

Lol the Moby Dick line- I always remember it from that movie “Matilda”… the little girl is reading it at the end of the movie.

As for my fav lines… Probably my favorite is “Pride and Prejudice”– “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Also “Emma”, “A Tale of Two Cities”, and “The Hobbit”.

By: SubAstute

SubAstute — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:07:38 +0000

May the ghost of Herman Melville hack into the WordPress servers and delete this posting!

And where are the favorite first sentences??? Too busy hating on Moby Dick to get that far, eh?

Well one of mine is “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”

Yes, it’s from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and yes this choice is geeky and lowbrow as all get-out. And yes I’m not ashamed to admit that I love me some silly sci-fi and white whale lit.

By: JLS Hall

JLS Hall — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:14:21 +0000

I liked probably the first quarter of “Moby Dick.” I can stand it up to the point where they actually get on the boat – after that, they’ve lost me. I really don’t need to know that much about whales!

By: Literate Housewife

Literate Housewife — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:42:57 +0000

Feline and Shana, I think you both would really enjoy The Monsters of Templeton. I’m hoping to have a giveaway for it when it comes out in paperback.
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Lisa and Shana, you really should read GWTW. In fact, I keep having the desire to read it again pop up more and more often. It won’t be long before I won’t be able to ignore it any longer.

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By: Shana

Shana — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:01:19 +0000

I’m with Lisa on Gone with the Wind. This is a favorite for so many people, I can’t believe I’ve never read it.

Monsters of Templeton … sounds good. I had to go read your review after that first line!

By: Literary Feline

Literary Feline — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:46:35 +0000

That is a great intro to The Monsters of Templeton! Must. Read. That. Book.

By: Literate Housewife

Literate Housewife — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:06:03 +0000

Leya, as J.S, Sally and Meghan have agreed, Moby Dick is not worth reading unless you absolutely must find a way to make yourself fall asleep. If you want to read a great book about a man and a fish, read The Old Man and the Sea. It’s vastly shorter and much richer IMHO.

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By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:42:55 +0000

I like the one from Gone with the Wind.

By: Chris@bookarama

Chris@bookarama — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:23:58 +0000

I think a first line can make or break a book.

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By: Meghan

Meghan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:26:09 +0000

I’m going to join the chorus of Moby Dick hatred. That first line is the only thing good about it, but unfortunately it now makes me think of the extreme boredom I suffered getting through that book in high school.

I love Gone with the Wind, though! There are many more great lines in that one. =)