Some first lines are very well known, i.e.
"It is a truth universally acknowledge that young man in posession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife." - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
"Call me Ishmael." - Moby Dick, Herman Melville
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." - Mrs. Dalloway (duh), Virginia Woolf
And so on.
I'd never ran across this one:
"On top of everything, the cancer wing was Number 13." - Cancer Ward, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Apologies if I mucked up any quotes; the only one I checked was from Cancer Ward.
Current book-in-progress: Middlemarch (still, I recently heard this described as a soap opera and I agree; however, characters have yet to come back from the dead - played by a completely different actor)
Current knitted item: Guess I'm back to blue socks
Current movie obsession: The Muppet Show season 2!!!! Oh yeah baby!
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