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

[ApK]

Daniel Gerard achieved enormous fame, became a household name all over the world, actually made it into the history books, by becoming the very first human being ever to die on another planet.


That one actually makes me want to write it.

[gmw]

Originally Posted by ApK

Daniel Gerard achieved enormous fame, became a household name all over the world, actually made it into the history books, by becoming the very first human being ever to die on another planet.


That one actually makes me want to write it.

And makes me want to read it - so hurry up!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ApK

Daniel Gerard achieved enormous fame, became a household name all over the world, actually made it into the history books, by becoming the very first human being ever to die on another planet.


That one actually makes me want to write it.

That one's too good.

I would buy this, when/if it becomes available.




Don

[Namekuseijin]

The wind blowing colors back into his face, Zack woke up breathless midway through the fall, mouth gaping at the fast-approaching skyscrapers just below.

[orlok]

Trip hammers danced a tattoo on my temples as I rose through layers of sleep, fighting invisible dream demons; only then did I realise something really was hitting me in the face.

[orlok]

I once knew a man who tried to kill himself through gluttony, and he would have succeeded, too, if he had come from less healthy stock.

[orlok]

Malcolm began his married life by walking through the Union Line ship’s lower decks stark naked - he might have been excused nudity on his honeymoon night, even encouraged in it, had it been a less public display - but what actually saved him was the fact that he was fast asleep at the time.

[Graham]

Jason was a marked man - mainly paint and felt-tip pen, it's true, but there was also the full back who followed him all over town.

Graham

[Dr. Drib]

As Robards took me to see his quarters (and there, perhaps, to make passionate love to me) I couldn’t help but think of how the very rich lived and that soon, soon, I might be Mrs. Charmain Robards, the toast of broadway, but I was sorely disappointed when he opened an old cigar box full of loose change and out fell three very worn coins from 1942.




Dr. Drib

[Jane Oldaker]

"It was the wrest of times, it was the wurst of times," he said snatching the German sausage out of his arch enemy's vice-like grip and clobbering the stuffing out of him with it.

[doubleshuffle]

Had Tommy only known what horrors he would spawn by necroposting in that thread, he would probably have done it anyway, for he was quite reckless online: once he had even used "LOL", "OMG", "WTF", *facepalm* and three emojis in one single post.

[Dr. Drib]

Jimmy doggedly thought about the real estate occupied by the dead, and how he could make a fortune if apartment complexes and golf courses were built in all those hundreds of thousands of cemeteries, if not for the constant fog which posed serious limitations on his design theories, not to mention the soggy ground which put a damper on golf.

[PandathePanda]

When Bata laid eyes on her he knew she was trouble; looking back now twenty years later, he knew that earth would still be in existence today if he didn't asked her out on that date.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by PandathePanda

When Bata laid eyes on her he knew she was trouble, looking back now twenty years later, he knew that earth would still be in existence today if he didn't asked her out on that date.

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!

[doubleshuffle]

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!

Not everyone: I was creative and used a colon in my last effort!