What's the percentage of great books that start with an incredible first line?
"It was the worst of times, it was the best of times." - A Tale of Two Cities
"The town of Hamilton-ffrench was founded in the great year of our Lord 1640 and although it had since been through every single one of this country's biggest events, be them bloody wars or spicy scandals whether national or, more importantly and with far more dire consequences, local, one Saturday in the most recent June felt like the one moment all of those days had been leading up to over the past four hundred years: the Boyce/Taylor wedding." - The Wedding Parties
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” - The Metamorphosis
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