Bellis Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [quote name='polishgenius' post='1653495' date='Jan 18 2009, 21.05']Veniss Underground? I've only read the first chapter of that book but for some reason the meerkat rings a bell.[/quote] Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellis Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [quote name='Horza' post='1653498' date='Jan 18 2009, 21.07'][b]A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing to compare it to now.[/b][/quote] Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon. Backatcha... from an interesting book I haven't seen mentioned here for a long while: [b] I was born on a farm on Whileaway. When I was five I was sent to a school on South Continent (like everybody else) and when I turned twelve I rejoined my family. [/b] That's enough, for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stego Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [quote name='needle' post='1653120' date='Jan 18 2009, 13.30']Damn you Charlie, [i]I cannot get number nine[/i]. I have no idea what I've recced you over the years beyond Cordwainer Smith and the recent ones :( Even google cheating doesn't work.[/quote] I shall elucidate then: Prologue: Once there was a boy in a house. He was alone because his father was out at work, and his mother had run around the corner to the store. Although the boy was only four, he was a reliable child who knew the difference between toys and accidents waiting to happen, and his mother trusted him to be alone for five minutes. ....... Chapter One: I was tired. I got up, crawled out of the maelstrom of sheets, at 9:30 this morning. I took a shower, I drank some coffee. I sat on the floor with my back to the wall and felt my muscles creak as they carried a burning cigarette from my mouth to the ashtray. And when I first thought seriously about taking a nap, I looked at the clock. It was 10:45. AM. I was still sitting there, waiting to die, waiting to fossilize, waiting for the coffee in the kitchen to evolve enough to to make a cup of itself and bring it through to me, when the phone rang. ......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrana Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [quote name='BookWyrm' post='1653412' date='Jan 19 2009, 01.23']H.P. Lovecraft, The Statement of Randolph Carter[/quote] Correct. I love the ending line in that one as well. [i]"YOU FOOL, WARREN IS DEAD!"[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of Godsgrace Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [quote name='williamjm' post='1653497' date='Jan 19 2009, 03.06']Susanna Clarke - [i]Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell[/i] [b]This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard dying…. but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice…. but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks…. but nobody loved it.[/b][/quote] The Stars My Destination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookWyrm Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [quote name='Vrana' post='1653668' date='Jan 19 2009, 01.30']Correct. I love the ending line in that one as well. [i]"YOU FOOL, WARREN IS DEAD!"[/i][/quote] Lovecraft is BRILLIANT!!! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edda van Heefmstra Ruston Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 BTW Stego, I found that prologue on a book review website, and it's an amazing start. (Since I knew I had no hope of answering it, I used Google to see what it was.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needle Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 It's an amazing book, Eef. Everyone should read it . Stego's number 9 is : [b]Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith.[/b] (Will - Didn't think I'd recced you him, though I remember discussing him.) Ok, here's one : [b]It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness.[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [quote name='DrownedCrow' post='1653521' date='Jan 19 2009, 02.45']Something by Terry Pratchett. [i]Reaper Man[/i]?[/quote] Ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maester Joergensen Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [quote name='Alytha' post='1653165' date='Jan 18 2009, 20.45'][b]It was a nice day[/b][/quote] Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman. [b]The doctor said that I was a paranoid schizophrenic. Well, he didn´t actually [i]say[/i] it. But [i]we[/i] knew he was thinking it. [/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelo Rebelo Firqoralas Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [quote name='Bellis' post='1653611' date='Jan 19 2009, 05.32'][b] I was born on a farm on Whileaway. When I was five I was sent to a school on South Continent (like everybody else) and when I turned twelve I rejoined my family. [/b][/quote] [i]The Female Man[/i] by Joanna Russ. I'll post a quote when I get home and can look through my books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 [b]It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness.[/b] Ugh. It was on the tip of my brain, but I broke and looked it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dornish Pasties Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 [b]Kaiku was twenty harvests of age the first time she died[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maester Joergensen Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 [b]In the autumn season of the vine, word went forth from among the cypresses and olives and the laden vines of his country estate that Sandre, Duke of Astibar, once ruler of that city and its province, had drawn the last bitter breath of his exile and age and died[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivisionByZero Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 [quote name='Maester Joergensen' post='1658482' date='Jan 22 2009, 13.51'][b]In the autumn season of the vine, word went forth from among the cypresses and olives and the laden vines of his country estate that Sandre, Duke of Astibar, once ruler of that city and its province, had drawn the last bitter breath of his exile and age and died[/b][/quote] Oh hey, I recognized one! Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay. But I'm at work with no books to quote... I'll get one when I get home. ETA: Duh, Amazon lets you read the first page of a lot of things, so here you go: [b]I slipped the poison dart into its slot under the right collar of my cloak, next to the lockpick.[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambyr Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 [quote name='divisionerror' post='1658538' date='Jan 22 2009, 15.30']Oh hey, I recognized one! Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay. But I'm at work with no books to quote... I'll get one when I get home. ETA: Duh, Amazon lets you read the first page of a lot of things, so here you go: [b]I slipped the poison dart into its slot under the right collar of my cloak, next to the lockpick.[/b][/quote] [i]Jhereg[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivisionByZero Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 [quote name='ambyr' post='1658604' date='Jan 22 2009, 15.28'][i]Jhereg[/i][/quote] Got it! I would have accepted [i]Jhereg[/i] or [i]The Book of Jhereg[/i] collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Since there doesn't seem to be anything to guess at the moment, I thought I'd do one: [b]He came shambling into Judgement's Round from the Avenue of Souls, a misshapen mass of flies[/b] (I predict the answer will come fairly quickly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procrastimancer Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I actually have nothing to add to this thread as far as first lines go. I do want to thank Stego and Needle, as Only Forward will be my next purchase. Just finished reading the prologue and chapter one over at Amazon and I immediately wished that I had the book in front of me, I didn't want to stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-ahrairah Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 [b]"It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen."[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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