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carmarthen listed a few opening lines she likes from certain books, which got me thinking; often it's the opening line that hooks me. Here's the opening line from the book I'm currently reading:
When Dilvish the Damned came down from Portaroy they tried to stop him at Qaran, and again at Tugado, then again at Maestar, Mycar, and Bildesh. ("Dilvish the Damned," Roger Zelazny)
As opening sentances go it's pretty good. But then I got wondering about which Terry Pratchett book it is that starts out with a passage about the bees of Death. It probably wouldn't qualify for the first sentence thing, since he doesn't usually write such that one sentance stands alone, but I wanted to check. It has to be one of the Death books, I imagine, and I was thinking "Reaper Man," and for some reason I was thinking I had picked up a copy on one of our recent second-hand bookstore raids, but I just searched all through my bookshelves and can't find it. *le sigh*
I'm not entirely convinced that the sun bothered to get up, today. It did get lighter some time after 7:30, but it's still not what you'd call bright outside. Is it time already to light the yule log to try to convince the sun to come back to us?
BTW, if any "Dark Is Rising" fans happen to read this - was there something about a yule log in that series? And a symbol of a circle with a squared cross inside it? Someone at work started going on about this book she read in high school that she liked, and that was basically all she could remember about it.
carmarthen listed a few opening lines she likes from certain books, which got me thinking; often it's the opening line that hooks me. Here's the opening line from the book I'm currently reading: When Dilvish the Damned came down from Portaroy they tried to stop him at Qaran, and again at Tugado, then again at Maestar, Mycar, and Bildesh. ("Dilvish the Damned," Roger Zelazny)
As opening sentances go it's pretty good. But then I got wondering about which Terry Pratchett book it is that starts out with a passage about the bees of Death. It probably wouldn't qualify for the first sentence thing, since he doesn't usually write such that one sentance stands alone, but I wanted to check. It has to be one of the Death books, I imagine, and I was thinking "Reaper Man," and for some reason I was thinking I had picked up a copy on one of our recent second-hand bookstore raids, but I just searched all through my bookshelves and can't find it. *le sigh*
I'm not entirely convinced that the sun bothered to get up, today. It did get lighter some time after 7:30, but it's still not what you'd call bright outside. Is it time already to light the yule log to try to convince the sun to come back to us?
BTW, if any "Dark Is Rising" fans happen to read this - was there something about a yule log in that series? And a symbol of a circle with a squared cross inside it? Someone at work started going on about this book she read in high school that she liked, and that was basically all she could remember about it.