100 Best First Lines of Novels?
I link. You decide.
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Thank God that "It was a dark and stormy night" made it in there. Otherwise, we might not have the Bulwer-Lytton contests.
Okay, I'm nooo scholar and maybe I'm biased, but David Copperfield at number 20??
And some 1973 book with, "A screaming comes across the sky" makes it at number 3??
Whatever.
That's the great thing about these lists. It's fun to complain about them. I agree that David Copperfield should have been higher . . . I don't think it was even higher than The Catcher in the Rye, was it? And that's just wrong. [I don't wish to offend the partisans of Holden among us. I even admit TCITR deserves a place on the list -- just not higher than David Copperfield.]
I haven't read Gravity's Rainbow. It's considered a great novel, though, and the first line ("A screaming comes across the sky")*is* very good.
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