"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

(Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Volume 1: The Gunslinger, 1982)

Erste Sätze

"I wasn't thinking about the man who had blown himself up. Earlier I had. Now I was putting him together."

(Kathy Reichs, Deja Dead, 1997)

Erste Sätze

"There is a similarity, if I may be permitted an excursion into tenuous metaphor, between the feel of a chilly breeze and the feel of a knife's blade, as either is laid across the back of the neck."

(Steven Brust, Jhereg, 1983)

Erste Sätze

"Some things start before other things."

(Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men, 2003)

Erste Sätze

"Half her face is porcelain."

(Alan Moore, The Hypothetical Lizard, 2007)

Erste Sätze

"There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife."

(Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, 2008)

Erste Sätze

Nachtrag:

Hier kann man sich diesen Satz - und das ganze erste Kapitel - original von Neil Gaiman vorlesen lassen:

"Captain Horatio Hornblower sat in his bath, regarding with distate his legs dangling over the end. They were thin and hairy, and recalled to his mind the legs of the spiders he had seen in Central America. It was hard to think about anything except his legs, seeing how much they were forced upon his attention by their position under his nose as he sat in this ridiculous bath; they hung out at one end while his body protuded from the water at the other. It was only the middle portion of him, from his waist to above his knees, which was submerged, and that was bent almost double. Hornblower found it irritating to have to take a bath in this fashion, although he tried not to allow it to irritate him, and he strove desperately to dismiss from his mind recollections of thousands of more comfortable baths taken on the deck of a ship, under a wash-deck pump which threw over him unlimited quantities of stimulating sea-water ..."

(C.S. Forester, "The Commodore")

*schwelg* Mit diesen Sätzen fing es für mich an - da war ich 9 oder 10 und las das Buch in der - zugegebenermassen ziemlich guten - deutschen Übersetzung. Eigentlich ist der erste Hornblower-Band, den C.S. Forester schrieb - "The Happy Return" - der ideale Einsteigerband für die Serie, aber es fügte sich eben, daß dieser Band mein erster wurde.