[lit-ideas] Re: Opening lines

From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:28:22 +0900

On 7/30/07, Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I haven't read _Earthly Powers_ (perhaps the length
> put  me off, perhaps there were some bad reviews) but
> if I'd decided to, the first line wouldn't have made
> me stop reading.  (I'm not quite sure why it would,
> why it would be thought off-putting.  I suppose if it
> were the first line of a novel by a new writer or an
> established writer I didn't like, it might, though
> I've never, I think, stopped reading just because of a
> first line, as opposed to a very boring long first
> paragraph.)

Email is, indeed, a treacherous thing. I found the line intriguing. It
arrested my attention and made me want to continue reading to find out
what was happening. Not an entirely innocent response, since I've read
a good deal of Burgess and was primed to react positively.

John

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