Wednesday's Game: Famous first lines

[Carci]

I'll start with the one that came to my mind immediately.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

You tell us what book that is from and give another first line for the next person to identify.

[Mandy Muffin]

I'll let somebody else guess it.  But this is fun. Can we do famous last lines next week? 

[rapa]

THE DEVINCI CODE by Dan Brown

 

Here's one from a book I've had on my shelf for ages.  Highly rated but I couldn't get into it:

"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head."

[Carci]

that was what I was thinking Mandy :)

[Mandy Muffin]

"Confederacy of Fools," John Kennedy Toole

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

[rapa]

1984 by George Orwell

 Here are the first two sentences from one of my favorite reads:

"My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. I was a young teenager, clumsy, embarrassed by my awkwardness, frustrated with life, horrified of puberty, about to be shipped off to a mlitary school by my father for insubordination."

[Carci]

The Rainmaker by John Grisham

[rapa]

Picked up this book today and the first sentence has piqued my curiosity toward a good story.  This book is a fairly recent release.

 

"It was prophesied I would live to see one hundred and having achieved that age I see no reason to doubt it."

[Mandy Muffin]

"It was prophesied I would live to see one hundred and having achieved that age I see no reason to doubt it. I am not dying a Christian though my scalp is intact and if there is an eternal hunting ground, that is where I am headed. That or the river Styx. My opinion at this moment is my life has been far too short: the good I could do if given another year on my feet. Instead I am strapped to this bed, fouling myself like an infant."

"The Son" by Phillipp Meyer

--Who spells their first name with two "p" in Phillip? I would read the book just to find out.  It looks interesting as the review compared it to "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. 

(I won't add another quote as we are on famous last lines now.)

[rapa]

Figured we could multi-task as long as a game wasn't closed to discussion!  ;)

[Carci]

LOL... love it when an idea won't die... keep going as long as it finds an interest :)