Which is it? The best? Or worst? Makes no sense! That's one of the best opening lines? (I'm paraphrasing a Cheers episode,which I found to be hilarious)

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

...5/13...I think I need to read more...

9/13 - I should have gotten "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended." right, but I couldn't place it out of context. Felt like kicking myself when I read the right answer.


Here's one that always haunts me:

"The angel lay in a little thicket. It had no need of love; there was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it- we can lie here with the angel if we like; it couldn't have hurt much when they slit its throat."

-'The Journal of Albion Moonlight' by Kenneth Patchen

11/13 (English major)...oddly enough, correctly guessed at a couple but incorrectly chose Bleak House & Martian Chronicles (both which I had read).

Death is my beat. - The Poet Michael Connelly

10/13, and I'm mad at myself for missing the 2001 line.

Maybe not the best, but it made me laugh:

"It has been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute."

Villa Incognito, by Tom Robbins.

While I wasn't thrilled with the book as a whole, I've always loved the opening line to Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil:

"He was tall, about fifty, with darkly handsome, almost sinister features: a neatly trimmed mustache, hair turning silver at the temples, and eyes so black they were like the tinted windows of a sleek limousine - he could see out, but you couldn't see in."

I do not see what is so great about it myself.