My blogger comrade "Stephen" at Sand and Cotton first posted this and it was too good (for obvious reasons) not to pass along. It's Pantagraph's 100 Best First Lines From Novels.
Papa H weighs in at No. 48 and 75, respectively:
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."
--Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."
--Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)Click below to read the entire list. Enjoy!
Pantagraph.com News 100 Best First Lines From Novels
