I’m sure that this is one that a lot of us in the August blog challenge will have trouble with, because this is a pretty book-crazy bunch and it will be hard to narrow down to five!<\/p>\n
These are all the first lines of the first chapter, skipping any prologue or introductions.<\/p>\n
So, here are the five I chose: <\/p>\n
“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”
\n– Cosmos<\/i> by Carl Sagan<\/p>\n
“Her path to the Tower wound back beyond her birth, to the chance meeting of man and a woman more than a quarter of a century before that windswept April night of her imprisonment.”
\n– Legacy<\/i> by Susan Kay<\/p>\n
“Taran wanted to make a sword; but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.”
\n– The Book of Three<\/i> by Lloyd Alexander<\/p>\n
“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
\n– Harry Potter and the Philospher’s\/Sorcerer’s Stone<\/i> by J.K. Rowling<\/p>\n
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
\n– The Hobbit<\/i> by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p>\n
(The last three are the first books in a series of books, of course, and are really representing whole series that I love.)<\/p>\n
I really feel bad leaving off a Neil Gaiman book, but it would have been hard to choose one since I love all his books. And I’m sure there are other favorites that I’ve completely forgotten for one reason or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m sure that this is one that a lot of us in the August blog challenge will have trouble with, because this is a pretty book-crazy bunch and it will be hard to narrow down to five! These are all the first lines of the first chapter, skipping any prologue…<\/p>\n