{"id":19028,"date":"2014-01-24T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/?p=19028"},"modified":"2014-01-22T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T13:30:13","slug":"less-known-book-openings-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/less-known-book-openings-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Less Known Book Openings You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the world of literature and creative writing, one of the things that matter the most, according to some specialists, is the opening paragraph<\/strong>. It should be catchy, engaging, interesting, addictive and powerful enough to keep you hooked to the book and start your journey through the story. There is not one list of famous literary openings, but dozens<\/strong>, and while many agree that some lines are the best in history, others come up with even more and more examples, from classic literature to contemporary one.<\/p>\n However, there are some less known book openings you should know about and be able to say to whom they belong<\/strong>. This doesn’t have to do with you playing cool and educated and throwing a book quote randomly in a conversation, just to show how smart, educated and superior you are, but has everything to do with you being able to have a conversation about famous book openings and go beyond the classic “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” or “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.”<\/strong> These classics made history, indeed, but let’s take a look at others too. Here are 3 less known book openings you should know to whom they belong and how really famous they are for certain people.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Of course you know famous musician Leonard Cohen wrote a bunch of novels and some poetry collections<\/strong>, right? And that The Favorite Game<\/strong> is a masterpiece easily comparable with J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye<\/strong>, right? Well, this is how The Favorite Game<\/strong> begins and it is a beautiful introduction in the universe of innocence that Cohen has created.<\/p>\n “Breavman knows a girl named Shell whose ears were pierced so she could wear the long filigree earrings. The punctures festered and now she has a tiny scar in each earlobe. He discovered them behind her hair.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A bullet broke into the flesh of his father’s arm as he rose out of a trench. It comforts a man with coronary thrombosis to bear a wound taken in combat.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n On the right temple Breavman has a scar which Krantz bestowed with a shovel. Trouble over a snowman. Krantz wanted to use clinkers as eyes. Breavman was and still is against the use of foreign materials in the decoration of snowmen. No woolen mufflers, hats, spectacles. In the same vein he does not approve of inserting carrots in the mouths of carved pumpkins or pinning on cucumber ears.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. <\/strong>It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n1. The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen<\/h2>\n
2. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler<\/h2>\n