Amazon’s polling also revealed that four in ten (43 per cent) British readers say that the first few lines of a book can make or break a novel.
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter opening line voted among best of all time. “Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”
4/5th Peter Pan: “All children, except one, grow up” and JRR Tolkien’s deceptively simple opening to The Hobbit: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.
Nothing wrong with the old rules reg's but we must be seen to be doing something so we'll change them ....... not our fault if it makes things worse. hic!
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JK Rowling’s Harry Potter opening line voted among best of all time.
“Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”
4/5th Peter Pan: “All children, except one, grow up” and JRR Tolkien’s deceptively simple opening to The Hobbit: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.
What was wrong with the old one......?
The surprise is Rishi has asked him to run the UK Election