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Squirrel_Posting Im/nuts Aw nuts  1yr ago (text post) 311 thread views #169087

All time favorite book openings?

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.

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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.

:#marsey300:

Also

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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