Eine kleine Sammlung von ersten Sätzen in Büchern, die, meiner Meinung nach, gut gelungen, interessant und/oder lustig sind.
Es bedeutet nicht, dass die Bücher dahinter unbedingt gut sind; sie haben nur gute Anfangssätze. Ich sage auch noch nicht einmal, dass ich sie alle vollständig durchgelesen habe (wobei ich nur in ein, zwei Fällen vor dem extremst guten Schreibstil geflüchtet bin), aber bei den meisten ist dies so. Natürlich hätte ich auch eine Sammlung mit jeglichen Kapitelanfängen machen können, aber das würde zu weit führen, wenn ich auch zugebe, dass manche Kapitel der Bücher besser beginnen als ihr eigentlicher Anfang.
Viel Spaß beim Lesen und vielleicht inspiriert werden. :)
There was this... disease the clacksmen got.
- The one-month-prolouge; Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.
- The Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Robert Louis Stephenson
Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth.
- Silence of the Lambs; Thomas Harris
When hooves suddenly rapped on the timbers of the bridge, Yurga did not even raise his head; he just howled softly, released the wheel rim he was grappling with and crawled under the cart as quickly as he could.
- Something More; Andrzej Sapkowski
The dead sheep, swollen and bloated, its stiff legs pointing towards the sky, moved.
- A Shard of Ice; Andrzej Sapkowski
He found the first body around noon.
- The Sword of Destiny; Andrzej Sapkowski
The rumor spread through the city like wildfire (which had quite often spread through Ankh-Morpork since its citizens had learned the words ‚fire insurance‘).
- The Truth, Terry Pratchett
Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.
- The Shining, Stephen King
umber whunnnn
yerrrnnn umber whunnnn
fayunnnn
These sounds: even in the haze.
- Misery, Stephen King
It was a warm spring night when a fist knocked at the door so hard that the hinges bent.
- Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett
He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed.
- The ballad of reading gaol, Oscar Wilde
Joost had two problems: the moon and his moustache.
- Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
- A monster calls, Patrick Ness
The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn‘t sure it was worth all the effort.
- The Light fantastic, Terry Pratchett
Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt.
- John dies at the end, David Wong
Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you just know it‘s going to be the kind of day where you end up tied to a chair in a filthy garage while a pair of lunatics torment you with a chainsaw.
- Single White Psychopath seeks same, Jeff Strand
The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it ‚the Riddle House‘, even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K.Rowling
The Wizard Joad was dying and he knew it.
- Magicka: The Ninth Element, Dan McGirt
The old spellmasters like to say that magic has a taste.
- Spellslinger, Sebastien de Castell
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
I approached the door on my elbows, dragging myself like some kind of mutant lizard along the stained brown carpet that lined the eighth floor hallway of the Hotel Paramour.
- Necromancer, M. R. Forbes
Seated opposite me in the railway carriage, the elderly lady in the fox-fur shawl was recalling some of the murders that she had committed over the years.
- The Absolutist, John Boyne
It‘s still my favourite book in all the world.
- The Princess Bride, William Goldman
QUEEEEEEK QUEEEEEEK QUEEEEEEK QUEEEEEEK QUEEEEEEK
A dream about my father chasing me through the fields with a pig sticker took an even more nightmarish turn when he started emitting a rhythmic high-pitched screech.
- Mogworld, Yahtzee Croshaw
Let‘s start with the end of the world, why don‘t we?
- The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin
I wasn‘t sure how to start this story/diary/account/tour guide/How to Hide Your Elephant for Dummies, but I always knew that it would be about me and You-Know-Who – the elephant in the room, so to speak.
- Hide the Elephant, Jonathan Dunne
Abner Marsh rapped the head of his hickory walking stick smartly on the hotel desk to get the clerk‘s attention.
- Fevre Dream, G.R.R. Martin
There was a harsh gale blowing on the night that Yarvi learned he was a king.
- Half a King, Joe Abercrombie
In the summer of 1887, my grandfather stole a clock.
- The singular and extraordinary Tale of Mirror and Goliath, Ishbelle Bee
It does not happen like this.
- Black Flowers, Steve Mosby
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