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Re: Bookworms:What are the best first lines you've read?
This one's in my bookshelf and has an interesting start:
"Julien Barneuve died at 3.28 on the afternoon of August 18, 1943. It had taken him twenty-three minutes exactly to die, the time between the fire starting and his last breath being sucked into his scorched lungs. He had not known his life was going to end that day, athough he suspected it might happen."
Another of Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio, which I would recommend.
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