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What's the best opening sentence in a book?
For me, it's:
>Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

>> No.20740868

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

>> No.20740901

>>20740857
I-I don't r-remember... S-should I?? I don't feel so good about this, bros...

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>>20740857
Runner ups: Gravity's rainbow (2), Neuromancer (3)

>> No.20741056

>>20740857
The Metamorphosis is better

>> No.20741981

>>20740857
>“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
Haunting of Hill house. Not the best but pretty good

>> No.20741995

>>20740857
>Quand je m’éveille, ma bouche est ouverte. Mes dents sont grasses : les brosser le soir serait mieux, mais je n’en ai jamais le courage. Des larmes ont séché aux coins de mes paupières. Mes épaules ne me font plus mal. Des cheveux raides couvrent mon front. De mes doigts écartés je les rejette en arrière. C’est inutile : comme les pages d’un livre neuf, ils se dressent et retombent sur mes yeux.

>> No.20741998

>>20740868
Try reading non-fiction.

>> No.20742195

The cum, which was deployed by the narrator, was dripping of yer mums chin.

>> No.20742403

>>20740868
I prefer
>In the beginning was the Word, and Word was with God, and the Word was God

>> No.20742793

>>20742403
Agreed killer start to "Novum Testamentum"

>> No.20742819

>>20741981
Shirley Jackson is definitely underrated on this board. She was a great writer.

>> No.20742825

The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity.

>> No.20742841
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20742841

The intro to Call of the Arcade by F Gardner

>> No.20742856

>To the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs
Absolute kino.

>> No.20742867

>>20742841
That's bad, really fucking bad

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>>20742841
Call of the Crocodile is just as kino. Joe is like the world’s worst protagonist.

>> No.20742918

>” When Agustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake - not a very big one.”

>> No.20742943

In October there were yellow trees.

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>>20742841
>This is the author memed in every thread
Somehow, that makes a lot of sense...

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>>20742841
Glad I saved this. F Gardner’s books really are like The Room of literature.

>> No.20742998

>>20740857
The gale tore at him and he felt its bite deep within and he knew if they did not make landfall within three days they would all be dead.

>> No.20743000

>>20741981
garbage

>> No.20743411

>>20741995
Mes amis?
Great book that