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This is especially bad when compared to a great first sentance: "The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed." - (Steven King, 1982 "T
by berbec 7y ago
This is especially bad when compared to a great first sentance:
"The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed." - (Steven King, 1982 "The Gunslinger") [1]
1: https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-10-best-opening-lines-of-novels https://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-10-best-opening-lines...
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoMaybe there should be a contest to turn great first sentences into Lyton worthy bad sentences. The man in Black ambulated with passion across the Desert, and the Gunslinger said I'm gonna do that too.
- smacktoward 7y agoMy given appellation, which I hereby grant permission to you and any other interested parties to use when speaking in reference to me, is Ishmael.
- smrq 7y agoIt was the best of times--no, wait, the worst--well, maybe both at the same time.
- asark 7y agoEveryone knows rich single dudes wanna get hitched.
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoAt 13:00 hrs the weather was normal for April.
- dredds 7y agoThe Book, Alpha 0: The Entity created everythingness from nondescript nothingness, and as with contemporary cosmology, this was as good a place to start as any other. A place for life.
- lmitchell 7y agoThis feels spectacularly Pratchett-esque. I would not be surprised to see this as the first sentence of a Discworld novel :P
- Swizec 7y agoI don’t think anything’s ever going to beat Thompson’s “We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold”
- berbec 7y agoAnd we'll need the cocaine
- baddox 7y agoI don't understand why that sentence is always mentioned as a notably good opening sentence on its own. If it wasn't written by Steven King in a book that's considered to be good, would anyone really identify the sentence itself as a great opening sentence? Of course I don't think there's anything wrong with it as an opening sentence, I just don't see how it's notable.
- mdemare 7y agoI fed that sentence to GPT-2 last month. Brilliant: The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed. There was talk of trying to track down a mysterious man who, if not a gun, could be a helpful ally. For a moment, the two could not be sure. The Man in Black was not the same man they had met at the end of the night. But he could be a friend. As the Man went through the desert and into the darkness of the unknown, he left the gunslinger behind. The gunslinger was in the middle of a trail of shattered bricks. The Man went away. "Man in Black," said the Gunslinger. "Gunslinger," said the Man in Black.