The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Tyler Watson blogs about what he sees as the top 5 opening lines in novels: [his picks]
- J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
- Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev (1972)
- Albert Camus, The Stranger, (1942, translation by Matthew Ward, 1988)
- Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937)
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)
- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)
- George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
2 comments:
Having finally read "Catcher in the Rye" this year, I fully agree with Tyler Watson. Who's Tyler Watson?
I'm Tyler Watson. You can read my blog here. Thanks for the hat-tip.
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