Well I appreciated it. As a fan of Tom Robbins and Douglas Adams, I’ll be checking out Tibor Fischer. Thanks for the tip!
“When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.”
Firebreak (Donald Westlake, writing as Richard Stark)
The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin.
Regards,
Shodan
I mentioned two of my favorites in a previous thread about my neighbor Don Pollock. Here they are again.
From Darker Than Amber, by John D. MacDonald:
From the short story Dynamite Hole, by Donald Ray Pollock:
I’ve got that book sitting right next to me. One of my favorites.
And a 4th or 5th vote for “The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.”
Another of my favorites!
“People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.” (from the movie Fight Club, the book has a different opening line, which I don’t remember. Guess it wasn’t very good then, huh?)
Ol’Gaffer you posted the one I first thought of when I read the OP. I’m referring the HST quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
“He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead.”
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Oh, yes.
It’s funny, the Gunslinger line everybody likes turns me off almost instantly…it’s the gunslinger word I believe.
Slaughterhouse Five.
What book is this from?
Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazy
Google sez it’s John Varley’s Steel Beach.
I’ll leave off the book or movie so those who recognize it can chime in -
Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it.
Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice.
I believe in America.
You would think such a day would tremble to begin.
Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.
It’s still on, and we’re going.
Paul Beatty, The White Boy Shuffle:
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram:
“Saigon . . . What am I still doing in Saigon?”
“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.”
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
That’s from The Go-Between, a book I can’t say I liked very much. The first line is wonderful, though.
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs. Dempster began at 5:58 o’clock p.m. on the 27th of December, 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.”
Thanks for posting this - I’ve been meaning to re-read that excellent book for some while.