26 Titles With Catchy Opening Sentences
Love at first sight?
Don’t judge a book by its cover they say. Sometimes you might even get a nudge saying that books don’t deserve to be judged by its title. However for some reasons, the opening sentence of a book may set the mood, leaves great memories or even make you crave for more.
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(Free) Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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(Free) Anna Karenina
Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that it is in a body that, in the morning, is going to be hanged.
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Going Postal
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
All this happened, more or less.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend’a was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
It was a pleasure to burn.
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Fahrenheit 451
Holes
by Louis Sachar
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
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Holes
The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
by C. S. Lewis
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
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The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
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Neuromancer
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Maman died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.
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The Stranger
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
(Free) A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Marley was dead, to begin with.
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(Free) A Christmas Carol
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Knife Of Never Letting Go
by Patrick Ness
The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say.
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The Knife Of Never Letting Go
(Free) The Call Of Cthulhu
by H. P. Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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(Free) The Call Of Cthulhu
Blood Rites
by Jim Butcher.
The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
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Blood Rites
The Crow Road
by Iain Banks
It was the day my grandmother exploded.
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The Crow Road
The Trumps Of Doom
by Roger Zelazny
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try and kill you.
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The Trumps Of Doom
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself – not just sometimes, but always.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
(Free) The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
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(Free) The Great Gatsby
(Free) The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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(Free) The Metamorphosis
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
by Stephen King
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Gravity’s Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
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Gravity’s Rainbow
(Free) Pride & Prejudice
by Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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(Free) Pride & Prejudice
The Path Of Daggers
by Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
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The Path Of Daggers
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
Tyler got me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, “The first step to eternal life is you have to die.”
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Fight Club
Uglies
by Scott Westerfeld
The early morning sky was the color of cat vomit.
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Uglies
