Submitted by AlphaStargazer t3_11vy91y in books
In Louis L'Amour's book "The Man Called Noon", the opening line keeps you reading page after page. He begins the story with: Somebody wanted to kill him.
As it turns out, this is the one thing that the main character remembers. He had been shot at, and the bullet grazed his head, leaving him with amnesia. Plus, he had fallen out of a second-story window, so he was likely concussed. The story is told in the 3rd Person, but you only know what the man who calls himself 'Noon' knows...
Obviously he regains his memory at some point, but learning things at the same time as the MC is really satisfying for some reason (compared to learning everything before the MC and getting mad at them lol)
What I wanted to know, is what opening lines have ya'll found that were the best that you've ever read?
A close second for me is "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit..."
side note, my dad had told me the book started with "They were trying to kill me", so I spent forever looking for the right book in my grandma's collection, and I couldn't find it lol