10 memoráveis começos de romances

[Giuseppe]

Apesar de eu usar um critério que um livro tem que me conquistar nos seus primeiros 20% iniciais, essa de lembrar os melhores inícios, eu teria que rever tudo novamente.

Comigo também haha. Tem livros que depois de 50, 100, 200 páginas ainda não aconteceu nada. Acho cansativo quando é assim.

Aqui já foi citado o começo de A Tale of Two Cities, do Charles Dickens, mas foi o primeiro que eu lembrei. Eis o parágrafo inteiro (ali em cima foi citada só a primeira frase):

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.