Listing a little to the left
There's a list online of the 100 best first lines of novels. Some of these books I've never even heard of. They must be important to have made this list, but I can't for the life of me imagine where they came from. Aside from the books, of course. They're identified at the end of the quotes
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My all-time favorite book made it on there, but I don't think there is anything incredibly special about its first line:
59. It was love at first sight. -Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
First line that I laughed out loud at:
39. They shoot the white girl first. -Toni Morrison, Paradise (1998)
Book I wish I had read AFTER I started smoking cigarettes so I could have realized Camel wasn't just being witty their motto:
53. It was a pleasure to burn. -Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Authors from the list that made me again realize the reason why I don't bother with many "classics":
Hemmingway, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Pynchon
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