tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post6697326297413062386..comments2024-01-31T04:29:38.858-06:00Comments on The Outfit: A Collective of Chicago Crime Writers: First ImpressionsSean Chercoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00939494866272006802noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-43272128429109236942015-10-27T14:25:16.014-05:002015-10-27T14:25:16.014-05:00`
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"Death...How about Michael Connelly, THE POET: <br />"Death is my beat."Adam Bourgoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03476000573578284763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-53708731130733873952009-09-02T17:24:20.257-05:002009-09-02T17:24:20.257-05:00I collect openings lines that I love. Here are a f...I collect openings lines that I love. Here are a few:<br /><br />Ian Rankin -THE BLACK BOOK<br />"It all happened because John Rebus was in his favourite massage parlour reading the Bible." <br /><br />Dan Fesperman -LIE IN THE DARK<br />"He began the day as always, counting the gravediggers out his window. There were nine this morning, moving through the snow a hundred yards away Annie Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03330807466032770866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-21111528444349600942009-09-02T10:27:35.794-05:002009-09-02T10:27:35.794-05:00So I’m listening to NPR yesterday, and there’s an ...So I’m listening to NPR yesterday, and there’s an interview with E.L. Doctorow and he’s talking about his new book, HOMER & LANGLEY. He specifically mentioned his first line, and how critical he thinks it is. How it adds “texture” to the work, both for him and the reader. His first line:<br />“I’m Homer, the blind brother.”Libby Hellmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10693555214699897283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-48427981328478431232009-09-01T05:00:56.761-05:002009-09-01T05:00:56.761-05:00Well, since no one else mentioned it, I guess I fe...Well, since no one else mentioned it, I guess I feel the need for it to exist here:<br /><br />"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon." (James Crumley - THE LAST GOOD KISS)Jen Forbushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13325129568512353951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-59389348934927425592009-08-31T19:53:26.320-05:002009-08-31T19:53:26.320-05:00Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on ...Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns.<br /><br />-- The Friends of Eddie CoyleDoug Riddlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-51331542848943915062009-08-31T17:03:44.334-05:002009-08-31T17:03:44.334-05:00I think the best opening line is by Hunter S. Thom...I think the best opening line is by Hunter S. Thompson: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas)<br /><br />"Call me Ishmael" isn't bad either ;)Sue T.http://www.interbridge.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-3279017550898784872009-08-31T13:50:02.823-05:002009-08-31T13:50:02.823-05:00On the night of my mother's funeral, Pam Dawso...On the night of my mother's funeral, Pam Dawson cried on my shoulder, put her tongue in my mouth, and asked me to find her husband.<br /><br />THE WRONG KIND OF BLOOD, by Declan HughesDana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-47478185230418523512009-08-31T13:01:52.231-05:002009-08-31T13:01:52.231-05:00Pace... Setting... Mood...
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Mood...<br />Here's a winner. <br /><br />From <i>True Grit</i> by Charles Portis:<br /><br />People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.Marcia Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03075336216437125199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-65428125356064813632009-08-31T11:57:45.292-05:002009-08-31T11:57:45.292-05:00When I read the following line, I was hooked, and ...When I read the following line, I was hooked, and I remain hooked six books later:<br /><br />"It was one hell of a night to throw away a baby." <br /><br />From Julia Spencer-Fleming's IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER.Barb Goffmanhttp://www.barbgoffman.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-66479711284945402662009-08-31T10:53:06.140-05:002009-08-31T10:53:06.140-05:00"At first, everyone thought the retrieving tr..."At first, everyone thought the retrieving trial judge had been killed by a blind man shooting blanks at a dead pigeon."<br /><br />Dining With Devils - a Tasmanian Thriller- by Gordon AalborgDeni Dietzhttp://www.denisedietz.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-91742997650953421902009-08-31T10:10:10.225-05:002009-08-31T10:10:10.225-05:00Here is one of my all-time favorites. It is from G...Here is one of my all-time favorites. It is from Graham Green’s suspense novel, Brighton Rock, written in 1938:<br />“Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours. With his inky fingers and bitten nails, his manner cynical and nervous, anybody could tell he didn’t belong—belong to the early summer sun, the cool Whitsun wind off the sea, the holiday crowd.”Kit Sloanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06350930686603843133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-88148992212489811122009-08-31T09:56:32.039-05:002009-08-31T09:56:32.039-05:00I wrote a short story about a guy who is about to ...I wrote a short story about a guy who is about to be shot execution style due to his failure to pay a bad debt to an Irish Mob bookie. The first line is:<br />"It's funny. When you have the business end of a .45 caliber pistol pressed to the back of your skull it's hard to think about anything else. Bat as I sit here in that very predicament, all I can think of is the bangers and Adam Bourgoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03476000573578284763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-47899655352371512772009-08-31T09:37:42.783-05:002009-08-31T09:37:42.783-05:00I'm having far too much fun with this Libby. ...I'm having far too much fun with this Libby. I've decided that from this point forward, every review I post will also include the first line of the book! Here's two more I really like:<br /><br />"My car occupied slot 221 in the impound lot." --The Crime Writer (Gregg Hurwitz)<br /><br />"He didn't have the stomach for it.<br /><br />The man who'd seen death Jen Forbushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13325129568512353951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-31862646122220053942009-08-31T09:29:47.035-05:002009-08-31T09:29:47.035-05:00"In March a damp wind blows in Trenton, and i..."In March a damp wind blows in Trenton, and it smells of cats."<br />--UNBALANCED ACCOUNTS, Kate Gallison. Yes, I know, it's mine. But what can you do. If I didn't like my own writing better than anybody else's I wouldn't write.Kate Gallisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107289413804236810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-67677069226942565792009-08-31T08:29:10.871-05:002009-08-31T08:29:10.871-05:00I’m not sure where one should expect to find the b...I’m not sure where one should expect to find the bereaved daughter of a wealthy Malibu suicide in need of a trauma cleaner long after midnight, but safe to say a trucker motel down the 405 industrial corridor in Carson was not on my list of likely locales. – Charlie Huston, the Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Deathplastic.santahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12867668748195829201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-79965533492750432922009-08-31T08:23:41.240-05:002009-08-31T08:23:41.240-05:00Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Da...Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Daphne Du Maurier, REBECCAPattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677772238389810821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-56509541012306047022009-08-31T07:54:55.083-05:002009-08-31T07:54:55.083-05:00Shannon... that one is remarkable! Truly. But then...Shannon... that one is remarkable! Truly. But then would we expect anything else from Koontz? Jen... I love yours too... all of them! Oh boy, this is going to be harder than I thought.Libby Hellmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10693555214699897283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-34955088969248751752009-08-31T05:16:00.972-05:002009-08-31T05:16:00.972-05:00O.k., I've not kept track of this in the past,...O.k., I've not kept track of this in the past, but I'm completely hooked now on checking the first lines. Here are some I really appreciate:<br /><br />"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 in my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believeJen Forbushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13325129568512353951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29793018.post-46792648045110148102009-08-30T23:35:52.479-05:002009-08-30T23:35:52.479-05:00Below is the first sentence that caused me to star...Below is the first sentence that caused me to start keeping track of first sentences in books and eventually led to my own blog about books read, and of course, their first sentences.<br />It comes from Dean Koontz's FALSE MEMORY:<br /><br />On that Tuesday in January, when her life changed forever, Martine Rhodes woke with a headache, developed a sour stomach after washing down two aspirin Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07955671272497121413noreply@blogger.com