5 Books Next to Their Opening Lines

Johann Thorsson Books September 30, 2013 0 Minutes

The first sentence is the most important part of a book, or so I’m told.

I took photos of five of my favorite books and then added the first sentence.

Some of them came out very well, like I am Legend, which is fittingly creepy.

These were all made with an iPad app called Over.

Published by Johann Thorsson

Johann Thorsson is a writer of fiction with a supernatural slant, mainly short stories, mainly in English. View all posts by Johann Thorsson

Published September 30, 2013

swlothian says:

September 30, 2013 at 1:43 pm

Awesome idea. Great post.

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1. Johann Thorsson says:
  
  September 30, 2013 at 1:53 pm
  
  Thanks. Took me a while though, the app kept misbehaving and losing the words.
  
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Maria's Weekly says:

September 30, 2013 at 7:34 pm

Love it! Great concept! Thanks for sharing.

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1. Johann Thorsson says:
  
  September 30, 2013 at 8:47 pm
  
  I’ll have to do more of these soon.
  
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Aaron says:

September 30, 2013 at 7:44 pm

Hi Johann! Cool project. Mind sharing with our support guys what happened that caused you a bit of trouble?

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1. Johann Thorsson says:
  
  September 30, 2013 at 8:24 pm
  
  No problem. The text would jump “above” the on screen photo and be unreachable.
  
  Sometimes the font selector froze or gave me artwork instead of changing the font. On one occasion I couldn’t scroll down to the artwork selector (it kept bouncing up).
  
  This would often happen again and again, and making these 5 images took quite a while.
  
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Katherine Nabity says:

October 1, 2013 at 6:16 pm

I don’t pay too much attention to first lines. But now I really want to scare up my edition of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Great images; thank you!

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