How to participate: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments. Include the title and the author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you would like, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line, and let us know if you liked or did not like the sentence. The link-up will be at A Few More Pages every Friday and will be open for the entire week.
It's been a while since I've done this!
This week (today, actually) I started reading The Plague by Albert Camus for one of my classes. Don't you just love the cover?
Here are the first few lines:
The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194- at Oran. Everyone agreed that considering their somewhat extraordinary character, they were out of place there. For its ordinariness is what strikes one first about the town of Oran...I think this is a pretty good beginning. What are these unusual events? Of course, some of the mystery is taken away because I know the book is about the plague, so the unusual events must have something to do with that. So far I'm really enjoying this book.
