THURSDAY 13: Best Novel First Lines. Part 2.

This is PART 2 of a continuation of last week's list, because to be honest, once I started looking at my own books for favourite first lines -- I just could not stop! I plan to make use of Bloggers new "pages" and will eventually add all of these to my own Top 100 first novel line list. So, here are my next 13, (#14 - 26) continuing from last week. 

 

14. Otto Houlihan sat in the dark room and listened to the two creatures who had brought  him here - a three-eyed thing by the name of Lazaru and its sidekick, Baby Pink-eye playing Knock the Devil Down in the corner. 

Clive Barker, Abarat; Days of Magic, Nights of War, [2004] 

 

15. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

Dodie Smith, I capture the Castle, [1948] 

 

16.  I didn't realise he was a werewolf at first.

Patricia Briggs, Moon Called, [2006]

 

17. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, [1988]

 

18.The first thing you ought to know about Joseph Creed is that he's a sleaze of the First Order - maybe even of the Grand Order, considering his trade.

James Herbert, Creed, [1990]

19. "I see...," said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window.

Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire; The Vampire Chronicles, [1976]

20. Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick!

Stephen King, The Shining, [1977] This one should be #1.

21. Had Eidolon  been anywhere but the hospital, he would have killed the guy pleading for his life before him. 

Larissa Ione, Pleasure Unbound; A Demonica Novel, [2008]

 

 22. Vietnam, me love you long time.

Alex Garland, The Beach, [1996] 

 

23. Ilium, New York, is divided into three parts.

Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano, [1952]

 

24.  With a beer and a smile, Ned Pearsall raised a toast to his deceased neighbor, Henry Friddle, whose death greatly pleased him. 

Dean Koontz, Velocity, [2005]

 

25. For more than a thousand years, the Mirror of Souls waited for the return of magic that would awaken tit and allow it to finish its work.

Holly Lisle, Diplomacy of Wolves; The Secret Texts book 1, [1998]

Useless bit of info: This picture is actually from an LP -  a short-lived Hamburg based project for a band called Brave New World, Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley Anyone interested can find out a tiny bit more about them, by checking out this review (on another site) written in 2002. I chose this album cover over the book because I felt it went very well with the first line of the book - below.

26. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. 

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, [1932]

Do you have any favourites of your own? What's your Thursday 13? 

Sassy

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