[lit-ideas] Re: Opening lines
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:52:48 -0500
I'd jump to something approximating the middle of the book, read a line or
two, flip to the back page and read it (which I nearly always do
anyway....). That should decide it for me <g>.
Julie Krueger
On 7/29/07, 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.)
>
> Judy Evans
>
> --- John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday,
> > and I was in bed with my
> > catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had
> > come to see me."
> > That's the opening line from *Earthly Powers* by
> > Anthony Burgess. Would you
> > continue reading?
> >
> > John
>
>
>
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