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briandmyers  ·  4148 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Authors' favorite first lines of books

This is my wife's favourite first line of a book :

    It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers




humanodon  ·  4148 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've only read A Clockwork Orange, would you recommend Earthly Powers?

briandmyers  ·  4148 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've not read it. I loved A Clockwork Orange though, so I should.

Pro tip to anyone reading A Clockwork Orange - there's a glossary in the back (which I didn't find until I'd finished the book).