Books with some of your favorite first lines?

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Some of mine:

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy :All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unahppy in its own way

Tale of Two Cities by Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.......

It by King: The terror, which would not end for another twenty- eight years, if it ever did end, began so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Answer 1

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: your either the hunter or the hunted

Answer 2

The small boys came early to the hanging.  The Pillars of the Earth

The last camel collapsed at noon. The Key to Rebecca

It was a slow Sunday afternoon, the kind Walden loved. The Man from St. Petersburg

All by Ken Follet

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Pride & Prejudice : "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

I don't know why, I just love it. :)

Answer 4

Barrabas came to us by sea---The House Of The Spirits