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Best opening ever

Best opening to a novel, ever?

For me, it's the Nabokov classic:

'Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.'

Captures a whole book right there. Incredible.

I'm trying hard to think of some but I was gonna say Lolita. It's got the best first line, best first page - it wins on many counts. 1984 has a good first line: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Instant intrigue. Joe
I'm trying hard to think of some but I was gonna say Lolita. It's got the best first line, best first page - it wins on many counts. 1984 has a good first line: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Instant intrigue. Joe
The opening of Midwitch Cuckoos (Day Of The Triffids) is instantly intriguing too.
'Imagine that you have to break someone's arm. ' The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie 'Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.' Graham Greene, Brighton Rock.
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