The other bookworm thread had me going upstairs and checking out the titles of books to recommend to others. Picked out a few and started to read the odd one again and it reminded me of an article I read in the Guardian on-line recently with a pole of then ten best ever first lines in fiction.
I can't remember the whole list but it featured Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, A Tale of Two Cities among others. I wonder what the Accywebbers bookworms will come up with as memorable openings to a book.
I will begin with the opening lines of "The Horse Whisperer" by Nicholas Evans:
"There was death at it's beginning as there would be death again at it's end. "
it continues:
"Though whether it was some fleeting shadow of this that passed across the girl's dreams and woke her on that least likely of mornings she would never know. All she knew, when she opened her eyes, was that the world was somehow altered."
Not one of the great classics of literature but still a great start.
