Anyway the best opening line to a book is still from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Another favorite is the opener from CS Lewis’s Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
“There was a boy named Eustice Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
May I present a strong contender as well:
JESUS CHRIST. Killer opening.
For those of you who are curios:
“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
“I’m pretty much fucked.”
The martian - Andy Weir
“I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites.”
All Systems Red, The Murderbot Diairies - Margaret Wells
As if Rick Riordan isn’t the voice of the people
The one I remember most is Stephen King’s opening line for The Shining:
