BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWhat other great opening lines do you know?.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up1305arrow-down12
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minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 months agoWell, not the first line per se, but the first chapter of Snowcrash is easily one of my favorites ever. If I had to pick an opening like though, it would be: “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.”
minus-squaresunbytes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoIf it’s not already trivia you know, apparently Tolkien just wrote that line on a piece of paper one day and just built the story around it. Hopefully it’s not apocryphal.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoSnow Crash really has fallen off the radar. Really ignited my interest in cyberpunk when I read it 30+ years ago.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoIt’s terrifying how familiar a lot of his world feels nowadays.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoYeah, absolutely. That and Jennifer Government. We’re getting all the shitty dystopian aspects of cyberpunk without all the cool technological advances.
Well, not the first line per se, but the first chapter of Snowcrash is easily one of my favorites ever.
If I had to pick an opening like though, it would be:
“In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.”
If it’s not already trivia you know, apparently Tolkien just wrote that line on a piece of paper one day and just built the story around it.
Hopefully it’s not apocryphal.
Snow Crash really has fallen off the radar. Really ignited my interest in cyberpunk when I read it 30+ years ago.
It’s terrifying how familiar a lot of his world feels nowadays.
Yeah, absolutely. That and Jennifer Government. We’re getting all the shitty dystopian aspects of cyberpunk without all the cool technological advances.