Fave opening lines of books
 

So what are your favourite opening lines to any books (fiction or non-fiction doesn't matter).

One of my faves is from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (1963)

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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." George Orwell, 1984 (1949)

And thus was born a thousand pub quiz questions!

Trainspotting
" The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling."Attachment 193879

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My local The Works shop has both Trainspotting books on sale cheap at the minute, I had a quick look at them the other day and realised I'd struggle to read them because of the Scottish prose :lol:
Tolkien is easier to understand :lol:

Pretty much all of irvine Welsh's books can be a chore [emoji38]

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I don't understand why they've never been translated into English :lol:

It would lose so much, hell if you want I'll send a translation [emoji6]

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"Later, as he sat on the balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the past 3 months"

JG Ballard 'High-Rise'.