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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAfter the first sentence of a well known book, add ....."and then the murders began"
**Please include title of the book**
My favorite so far:
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. And then the murders began.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Hunter S. Thompson
dchill
(38,492 posts)In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Just include the abominations.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)must be in want of a wife, and then the murders began.
Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen...and then the murders began.
wryter2000
(46,045 posts)It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And then the murders began.
Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and then the murders began. (Actually, not a bad one-sentence summary of the book!)
wryter2000
(46,045 posts)Think alike
sl8
(13,769 posts)Wheres Papa going with that axe? said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
And then the murders began.
Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White.
Oh I love that I knew that one.
So proud of being a literary expert.
Jim__
(14,076 posts)Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)It was a dark and stormy night. And then the murders began.
dchill
(38,492 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Camus' Stranger (From memory), but this conjures up a revenge from beyond the grave fantasy.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and then the murders began. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Docreed2003
(16,859 posts)I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I wont bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead. With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road...and then the murders began...
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)I sat there with Sally. We sat here we two and we said 'How we wish we had something to do.' And then the murders began.
--The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss
longship
(40,416 posts)Enjoying it. More, please.
My contributions:
1. Call me Ismael. And then the murders began.
Moby Dick, obviously.
This doesn't work very well, but it allows me to add this one.
2. Call me Jonah. And then the murders began.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
Which given the outcome is a bit more fitting, if only obliquely.
Thanks, DUers.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)who ruled them had courage and greatness. And then the murders began.
Beowulf.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and then the murders began. Do I really have to say?
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)And then the murders began.
Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)of absolute reality; even larks and katydid are supposed, by some, to dream and then the murders began.
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
BostonianMagi
(18 posts)Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way... and then the murders began.
BostonianMagi
(18 posts)They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did, and then the murders began.
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)the murders began.
(Sorry That was a tweet, not the beginning of a book, but I read this thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028851159 right after yours, and yours was fresh in my mind.)
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)And, turns out, I have seen that tweet...
Loved the FU to Bannon!!!
I do believe the night of the long knives is coming to the WH....
QED
(2,747 posts)And then the murders began.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)benld74
(9,904 posts)I don't do it for the money. And then the murders began
pkdu
(3,977 posts)bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...and then the murders began.
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
mythology
(9,527 posts)I can't believe I lost my fucking ear. And then the murders began.
Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley.
SchrodingersCatbox
(89 posts)And then the murders began
Fahrenheit 451
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)so I had to move to Brooklyn instead. And then the murders began.
Sophie's Choice.
petronius
(26,602 posts)and of having nothing to do: and then the murders began.
Alices Adventures in Wonderland
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)into a gigantic insect. And then the murders began." Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. And then the murders began."
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)spring-cleaning his little home. And then the murders began."
Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
trof
(54,256 posts)No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
And then the murders began...
If I have to tell ya...
blogslut
(38,000 posts)Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. And then the murders began.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)Orrex
(63,210 posts)The Cat in the Hat.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)television tuned to a dead channel, and then the murders began.
Neuromancer, William Gibson
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)And then the murders began.
- Homer's Iliad
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 27, 2017, 03:55 PM - Edit history (1)
and then the murders began."
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
fishwax
(29,149 posts)malthaussen
(17,195 posts)... and then the murders began.
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
-- Mal
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Tuesday by
David Wiesner. Award winning children's book
If it just said morning......it is about a sudden invasion.....a Tues in 2001
Shrek
(3,979 posts)Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.
And then the murders began.
kairos12
(12,861 posts)and then the murders began."
Cat in the Hat.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)And then the murders begin
The Handmaids Tale
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)(with some cheating)
In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.
And then the murders began.
Despite the murderous nature of the plot he hoped to devise, the thoughts of Scytale, the Tleilaxu Face Dancer, returned again and again to rueful compassion.
And then the murders began.
A spot of light appeared on the deep red rug which covered the raw rock of the cave floor.
And then the murders began.
The three people running northward through moon shadows in the Forbidden Forest were strung out along almost half a kilometer.
And then the murders began.
"Taraza told you, did she not, that we have gone through eleven of these Duncan Idaho gholas? This one is the twelfth."
And then the murders began.
When the ghola-baby was delivered from the first Bene Gesserit axlotl tank, Mother Superior Darwi Odrade ordered a quiet celebration in her private dining room atop Central.
And then the murders began.
SchrodingersCatbox
(89 posts)America Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her. And then the murders began.
The Godfather
malthaussen
(17,195 posts)"'HO, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus to-night?' said a young man of small stature, who wore his tunic in those loose and effeminate folds which proved him to be a gentleman and a coxcomb." And then the murders began.
The Last Days of Pompeii
-- Mal
denbot
(9,899 posts)Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream, and then the murders began..
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. And then the murders began.
The Scarlet Letter