100 Best First Lines from Novels

[kelber at mindspring.com]

To be honest, I found this first sentence so unpleasant that it put me off (rightly or wrongly) from reading the book.  Maybe a book shouldn't be judged by its cover, but the first sentence seems fair game -- the author's got complete control.

Laura

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>104: A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy 
>balloon of a head.
>John Kennedy Toole: "A Confedracy of Dunces"
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>http://americanbookreview.org/100BestLines.asp
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