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Originally Posted by mce
What's the first sentence of your favorite novel?
Here's mine:
?Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.?
What's yours?
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Great book.
It's hard for me to pick one book, but here is a good one.
"It's incredible, it really is, isn't it? Ever think you'd be humping along some crazy-ass trail like this, jumping up and down like a goddamn bullfrog, dodging bullets all day?" Back in Cleveland, man, I'd still be asleep."
That opening is good, but this line from later in the book is my favorite.
"It is more difficult, however, to think of yourself in those ways. As the eternal Hector, dying gallantly. It is impossible. That's the problem. Knowing yourself, you can't make it real for yourself. It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero."