Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence.
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins."
This is probably one of the cheesiest opening lines, ever! First of all, it doesn't tell me anything I don't already know from pop culture and the cover. Secondly, it's all cliche. There is nothing new or inventive about "...light of my life, fire of my loins." These trite phrases can be found in just about any book, poem, or song lyric picked at random.
I already know that Nabokov is a master of prose, but this opening sentence is not his best...
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Showing posts with label Book Beginnings. Show all posts
Friday, April 2, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Book Beginnings Friday: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence.
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo..."
I really like this opening sentence because it is classic stream of consciousness. It puts me in mind of the opening to The Sound and The Fury which is one of my all-time favorite opening paragraphs of all time. Just the idea of narration from the perspective of an undeveloped mind excites me!
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo..."
I really like this opening sentence because it is classic stream of consciousness. It puts me in mind of the opening to The Sound and The Fury which is one of my all-time favorite opening paragraphs of all time. Just the idea of narration from the perspective of an undeveloped mind excites me!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Book Beginnings Friday: The Great Gatsby
Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence.
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.
In my opinion, this is not a particularly good opening sentence. It does make me curious as to what the advice is, and why it is pertinent; however, the rest of the first chapter is much more intruiging to me.
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.
In my opinion, this is not a particularly good opening sentence. It does make me curious as to what the advice is, and why it is pertinent; however, the rest of the first chapter is much more intruiging to me.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Book Beginnings on Friday
Because one post a day is apparently not enough, I figured I would contribute to this meme.
Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.
My selection comes from Ulysses by James Joyce, of course!
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.
My selection comes from Ulysses by James Joyce, of course!
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
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