How to Participate: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments. Include the title and the author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you would like, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line, and let us know if you liked or did not like the sentence. The link-up will be at A Few More Pages every Friday and will be open for the entire week.
Just yesterday I started a new book: the second installment of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Clash of Kings. Here’s the opening handful of sentences to set the mood:
My Book Beginnings: “The comet’s tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky. The maester stood on the windswept balcony outside his chambers. It was here the ravens came, after long flight. Their droppings speckled the gargoyles that rose twelve feet on either side of him, a hellhound and a wyvern, two of the thousands that brooded over the walls of the ancient fortress” (1).
My Thoughts: I’ve been hooked on these books since page one of book one, so it’s hard not to have a favorable impression of the opening of A Clash of Kings. I will freely admit that I am devouring this book, and would probably do so even if the opening was less than promising (and this might even be the case in the future if the rumors and rumblings of Books Four and Five I’ve been are true). So, onward I read…
2 comments:
That sounds beautiful. Just this week I heard someone raving about the TV series (I think it was a series based on these books, at any rate!) and although I'd never heard of them before I immediately looked into the books. Having heard this excerpt, I think I'll definitely bump the series up my TBR pile :)
I really enjoyed this series when I started reading it a couple of years ago. I need to pick up the newest book, but I'm tempted to wait until it comes out in paperback...
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