After the first sentence of a well known book, add ....."and then the murders began"

[dixiegrrrrl]

**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]

1. Well, some have read this one...

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.

[sarge43]

14. Winner. n/t

[trof]

38. No contest. Game's over.

[sarge43]

40. Cliff Notes for The Old Testament.

Just include the abominations.

[Mrs. Overall]

2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune,

must be in want of a wife, and then the murders began.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. ...

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen...and then the murders began.

[wryter2000]

4. A Tale of Two Cities

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And then the murders began.

[Dale Neiburg]

5. Tale of Two Cities

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]

6. Great minds

Think alike

[sl8]

7. Where's Papa going with that axe?

“Where’s 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.

[mainstreetonce]

51. Got it

Oh I love that I knew that one.
So proud of being a literary expert.

[Jim__]

8. It was love at first sight. And then the murders began.

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller.

[Dale Neiburg]

9. Paul Clifford, by Bulwer-Lytton

It was a dark and stormy night. And then the murders began.

[dchill]

17. +1000

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. that really is rather perfect, for several reasons.

[Ron Obvious]

10. Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday. And then the murders began.

Camus' Stranger (From memory), but this conjures up a revenge from beyond the grave fantasy.

[First Speaker]

11. Robert Cohn was once the middleweight boxing champion of Princeton University...

...and then the murders began. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

[Docreed2003]

12. "On the Road"

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won’t 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]

13. The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.

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]

15. This thread is a Bulwer-Lytton nightmare.

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]

16. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings

who ruled them had courage and greatness. And then the murders began.

Beowulf.

[First Speaker]

18. In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit...

...and then the murders began. Do I really have to say?

[Demoiselle]

19. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day...

And then the murders began.

Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte.

[sarge43]

20. No live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions

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]

22. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way... and then the murders began.

[BostonianMagi]

23. I think this one works particularly well

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did, and then the murders began.

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

[frogmarch]

24. Natasha Bertrand ✔@NatashaBertrand

Bannon walked into Freedom Caucus meeting, said "This is not a debate. You have no choice but to vote for this bill." And then...

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]

25. figuratively speaking, it works well.

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]

26. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

And then the murders began.

[WinkyDink]

36. WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[benld74]

27. The Art of the Deal

I don't do it for the money. And then the murders began

[pkdu]

28. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead,

bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...and then the murders began.

James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

[mythology]

29. It's not a particularly well-known book, but this immediately came to mind

I can't believe I lost my fucking ear. And then the murders began.

Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley.

[SchrodingersCatbox]

30. It was a pleasure to burn

And then the murders began

Fahrenheit 451

[CTyankee]

31. "In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan,

so I had to move to Brooklyn instead. And then the murders began.

Sophie's Choice.

[petronius]

32. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank,

and of having nothing to do: and then the murders began.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed

into a gigantic insect. And then the murders began." Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. "On an exceptionally hot evening early in July

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]

37. True!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning,

spring-cleaning his little home. And then the murders began."

Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

[trof]

39. "TOM!"

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]

41. Here you go:

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]

42. "Mrs Ferrars died on the night of the 16th17th September - a Thursday. And then the murders began."

Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."

[eppur_se_muova]

43. Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, ...

Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: thank you. And then the murders began.

[Orrex]

44. The sun did not shine, and then the murders began

The Cat in the Hat.

[Codeine]

45. The sky above the port was the color of a

television tuned to a dead channel, and then the murders began.

Neuromancer, William Gibson

[sakabatou]

46. The primroses were over and then the murders began."

Watership Down

[rug]

47. Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

And then the murders began.

- Homer's Iliad

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

48. "Whan that aprill with his shoures soote the droghte of march hath perced to the roote,

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and then the murders began."

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

[fishwax]

49. In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together. Then the murders began.

[malthaussen]

50. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."

... and then the murders began.

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

-- Mal

[mainstreetonce]

52. "Tuesday evening around eight" and then the murders began.

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]

53. Hitchhiker's Guide

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]

54. "The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day..

and then the murders began."

Cat in the Hat.

[mainstreetonce]

55. "We slept in the gymnasium"

And then the murders begin






The Handmaids Tale

[Dr. Strange]

56. Behold, the Dune series...

(with some cheating)

Dune

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.

Dune Messiah

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.

Children of Dune

A spot of light appeared on the deep red rug which covered the raw rock of the cave floor.

And then the murders began.

God Emperor of Dune

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.

Heretics of Dune

"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.

Chapterhouse Dune

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]

57. An obvious one

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]

58. Since this thread invokes Bulwar-Lytton:

"'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]

59. Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“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]

60. A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats,

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