I got 9/10 on that quiz, only two of which were guesses.
I may have, err, read quite a lot of books.
My favourite really bad opening is Les Miserables. Not only is the first line not an attention-getter, but the first forty pages are about a character who is vitally important for one scene, and then never seen again.
Thing is, though, I don't tend to remember first lines. I'm quite happy to drift through paragraphs, even pages of slow build-up and introduction, as long as I'm comfortable with the writing.
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Date: 2012-03-13 03:07 pm (UTC)I may have, err, read quite a lot of books.
My favourite really bad opening is Les Miserables. Not only is the first line not an attention-getter, but the first forty pages are about a character who is vitally important for one scene, and then never seen again.
Thing is, though, I don't tend to remember first lines. I'm quite happy to drift through paragraphs, even pages of slow build-up and introduction, as long as I'm comfortable with the writing.