The Top 10 Best Opening Lines Of Novels – As per Lit Reactor

My favorites of the group:

2. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953
“It was a pleasure to burn.”

4. The Gunslinger, Stephen King, 1982
“The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.”

5. The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

See them all here:
http://litreactor.com/columns/the-top-10-best-opening-lines-of-novels

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