Comments on: Famous First Lines

By: Tom Marcinko

Tom Marcinko — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:20:57 +0000

“A screaming comes across the sky.” (Gravity’s Rainbow)
Too easy, I know.

By: eemma

eemma — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:07:12 +0000

gee, you guys have NO good ones

By: Arun Jiwa

Arun Jiwa — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:08:42 +0000

m1k3y @ 7, I’m guessing that’s Accelerando.

By: m1k3y

m1k3y — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:43:36 +0000

Manfred’s on the road again, making strangers rich.

By: Edward Willett

Edward Willett — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:04:36 +0000

Can there be a more famous first line than “In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit”?

I’m also fond of the first line of C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”