A good start

Today, the Irish Times asks 8 writers about their favourite opening lines from a novel. Contributers include Aravind Adiga (writer of the Booker-Prize-winning White Tiger) who says

My favourite opening line is from Albert Camus’s The Stranger : “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.”. It’s punchy, colloquial, and disturbing. It also taps out a rhythm for the rest of the book.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/0428/1224269210849.html