Top Ten Opening Lines In Literature

New and improved with dragons!

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Hi folks! I’m Spyder Darling and you might know me from my Tao Of Spyder series of rules to live and try by, now in it’s 4th edition. Such as #183 “The only problem with having plans, is now you have plans.”

Anyway, today I’m here to kick off a new game involving the best opening lines from the best novels in the history of writing, or at least the last hundred years or so. Now made better with the addition of four simple words. “And then the dragons arrived.”

Now, refresh your Long Island iced tea, sit up in your seat, adjust your specs and hang on for what comes next.

1. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. And then the dragons arrived.” (Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson)
2. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advise that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. And then the dragons arrived.” (The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald)
3. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And then the dragons arrived.” (A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens)
4. “Mother died today. Or maybe it, yesterday; I can’t be sure. And then the dragons arrived.” (The Outsider, Albert Camus)