Wednesday, February 1, 2006

IT WAS THE BEST OF LINES: Actually, that opening line from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is only the ninth best opening line from a book according to a list of the 100 Best First Lines From Novels as chosen by the American Book Review. Moby Dick's "Call me Ishmael" took the top spot, while one of my favorites, also by Dickens, "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show," from David Copperfield, came in at No. 20.

Link via Eric Zorn.

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