"Howard Roark laughed."
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
I know that most people prefer Atlas Shrugged with it's repetitive "Who is John Galt?" but I am a far bigger fan of The Fountainhead.
The first line piques my curiosity, but the rest of the paragraph is what really gets your mind ensnared.
"He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over motionless water. The water seemed immovable, the stone flowing. The stone had the stillness of one brief moment in battle when thrust and the currents are held in a pause more dynamic than motion. The stone glowed, wet with sunrays."
Even with that great description, the writing and story just keep getting better from there.
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