"The Second Book of Memorable First Sentences From Books That Don't Exist"

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ApK

Oh come on, you can't just change a period to a comma and call it a sentence! At least make that first one a semicolon like everyone else does!

Good suggestion.....otherwise he has two sentences.

And nobody wants to read two sentences!

[Rizla]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

"I didn't even know llamas could do that", stormed Tarquin as he ran headlong towards the shower, immediate expectations of steaming, soapy resurrection taking precedence over everything, even his previously unchallengeable Deborah Johnston fixation.

Very good

[PandathePanda]

Originally Posted by ApK

Oh come on, you can't just change a period to a comma and call it a sentence! At least make that first one a semicolon like everyone else does!

Isn't it part of artistic license? ;p

[doubleshuffle]

If you realy want to here about it the first thing you'll probibly want to no is where I learned to rite, and why my spelling is so lousy, and what my editor was doing while he was surposed to edit my book and all that crap, but I dont feel like going into it and you dont deserve any better anyway since you bought my novel from amazon for 99c and it is friggin selfpublished and has a shiny spaceship and a women with big boobs on the cover.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

If you realy want to here about it the first thing you'll probibly want to no is where I learned to rite, and why my spelling is so lousy, and what my editor was doing while he was surposed to edit my book and all that crap, but I dont feel like going into it and you dont deserve any better anyway since you bought my novel from amazon for 99c and it is friggin selfpublished and has a shiny spaceship and a women with big boobs on the cover.

I always suspected that Holden Caulfield had another novel in him.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

If you realy want to here about it the first thing you'll probibly want to no is where I learned to rite, and why my spelling is so lousy, and what my editor was doing while he was surposed to edit my book and all that crap, but I dont feel like going into it and you dont deserve any better anyway since you bought my novel from amazon for 99c and it is friggin selfpublished and has a shiny spaceship and a women with big boobs on the cover.

The reviews are in:
"Stunning!" "Unbelievable!" "It's everything I expected!"

[doubleshuffle]

Originally Posted by ApK

"It's everything I expected!"

Why does this sound like a threat?

[crich70]

"Form up, form up, there is plenty of room for all the souls in line, so don't worry because after all this is eternity," a voice seemed to boom out over the air at him though he couldn't see a loud speaker anywhere within his view.

[TechniSol]

When she swept into the room, I immediately threw a pail of water at her and watched her dissolve -silly thing riding her broom in public!

As he "bravely" hung from a large nail driven into the giant's club, suspended nearly forty feet above the lava, jack seriously reconsidered his career choice.

As his gravitationally powered spaceship prototype continued to accelerate uncontrollably toward the nearest sun, the professor writer realized his only hope of surviving his current predicament revolved around refining his equations sentence to properly place a comma period.

[doubleshuffle]

Originally Posted by crich70

"Form up, form up, there is plenty of room for all the souls in line, so don't worry because after all this is eternity," a voice seemed to boom out over the air at him though he couldn't see a loud speaker anywhere within his view.

Lovely. For a properly soul-crushing effect this should of course be the first sentence of a 1000-page novel at least.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

Lovely. For a properly soul-crushing effect this should of course be the first sentence of a 1000-page novel at least.

That would depend on where the protagonist goes from there though. Who knows where the story could lead.