Tyirul

Don't be too startled.

What has to be the most amazing intro you've ever read to a novel? Something you sat down and started with and said holy shit I ABSOLUTELY MUST READ THIS BOOK!

Laodaron

I don't read the intros usually. They generally dissuade me from reading the book.

Tyirul

You don't read the beginning of the first chapter? Maybe I should've been more specific...

By Intro, I mean the very beginning of the book itself. The part where if it's boring, your just going to sit the book down and move along.

Miroh

I honestly don't know. I've just been a faithful reader of Terry Brooks. Enjoyed every book I've read thus far.

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kyros

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany."

John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany

Vendetta

he's not a novelist, but he writes well IMO

“Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.”

-Charles Bukowski

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swiper, no swipin

skentrevlig

"It started in mud, as many things do."

Maybe not the most amazing intro, but it tickled me enough to read the whole bloody Otherland series by Tad Williams.
Absolutely brilliant, I might add.

aduros

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

The report counting for 10% of my grade may have had something to do with it. But once I gave it a fair chance, I actually enjoyed it.

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Otis

"The man in black fled accross the desert, and the Gunslinger followed."

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Foggy

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