What book has your favorite opening line?Answer
There has to be one book you read that got your attention when reading the opening line.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
ByGabriel García Márquez,Gregory Rabassa(Translator)
1967 • 1,680 Readers • 4.1
Why this book?
"Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo."
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
Eternal Life
ByDara Horn
2018 • 40 Readers • 3.7
Why this book?
"Either everything matters, or everything is an outrageous waste of time. That’s what she would have said, if anyone had asked her. But no one asks crazy old ladies for their opinions."