Friday, February 01, 2008

Great Opening Lines

One guy's list. Surprisingly, I've read all these novels except one.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't have the book handy but didn't Hammett's RED HARVEST have a great opening line. "I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a fellow (not sure if that's the right word) who called his shirt his shoirt."

Anonymous said...

So, Bill, which one of the list do you have to get to yet?

Unknown said...

Anna Karenina, which is noir, right?