Maybe it proved to be the perfect hook for the story. Maybe the prose grabbed you then and there. Post anything that was exceptionally memorable.
All time favorite book openings?
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Goddess, sing the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, which brought countless woes to the Achaeans
and sent the souls of many brave heroes to Hades, their bodies made into a feast for dogs and crows
all to carry out the unfathomable will of Zeus.
Begin from the time when they first quarreled:
the warrior king, son of Atreus, and godlike Achilles.
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
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