The 100 Best First Lines of Novels
http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html
An interesting compilation - though I don't really think the Moby Dick-opening deserves the first rank, there are many others I prefer (n. 2 would certainly be among the top openings for me).
The list also makes good exam preparation - quite a lot of these books are on the reading list, so you can check how many you recognize ;-)
And as a good way to recall all the books, we could compile our own list for the exam stuff!
An interesting compilation - though I don't really think the Moby Dick-opening deserves the first rank, there are many others I prefer (n. 2 would certainly be among the top openings for me).
The list also makes good exam preparation - quite a lot of these books are on the reading list, so you can check how many you recognize ;-)
And as a good way to recall all the books, we could compile our own list for the exam stuff!
I think it would be fun to compile our own list - takes a lot of time, though!