Writer's Block: Once upon a time…
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Oh Gosh. I can't list just one sentence! I have multiple favourite books. Well. Here are favourite books with favourite first sentences to try and narrow things down...
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." J.R.R Tolkien The Hobbit
"On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver." Sally Lockhart Quartet by Philip Pullman, Book One, The Ruby in the Smoke
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book." ASOUE, The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
"Three children lay on the rocks at the waters edge." Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier, Book One of The Sevenwaters Trilogy
I love fantasy and fantasy authors so all of my favourite books are in series.
Oh Gosh. I can't list just one sentence! I have multiple favourite books. Well. Here are favourite books with favourite first sentences to try and narrow things down...
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." J.R.R Tolkien The Hobbit
"On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver." Sally Lockhart Quartet by Philip Pullman, Book One, The Ruby in the Smoke
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book." ASOUE, The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
"Three children lay on the rocks at the waters edge." Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier, Book One of The Sevenwaters Trilogy
I love fantasy and fantasy authors so all of my favourite books are in series.
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Date: 2011-08-27 10:05 pm (UTC)I've heard that line a lot. Maybe I should add it to my 'to read' list.
Next up though is The Silmarrilion and then Sandman and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel :P
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Date: 2011-08-28 07:52 am (UTC)From the things you've mentioned enjoying, I expect you'd enjoy it if you did. It's not fantasy, but it's very quirky & humorous in places and written by Dodie Smith (who obviously also wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians), set in 1930s England and a bit autobiographical. It's about 17 year old Cassandra and her eccentric family who live in a ruined castle. (There's also a lovely film of it with Bill Nighy, Romola Garai and Rose Byrne, although the film loses some of the book's humour in places).
Yeah, that should take a little while to get through! I've read The Silmarillion, and Jonathan Strange is one of those books I keep looking at with interest.