>>Mike's message about the opening paragraph of "The Third Man" got me to wondering what people's favourite book openings are. Here's one of mine. It's from Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland":
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>>Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. In his dream these had been carrier pigeons from someplace far across the ocean, landing and taking off again one by one, each bearing a message for him, but none of whom, light pulsing in their wings, he could ever
>>quite get to in time. He understood it to be another deep nudge from forces unseen, almost surely connected with the letter that had come along with his latest mental-disability check, reminding him that unless he did something publicly crazy before a date now less than a week away, he would no longer qualify for benefits. He groaned out of bed. Somewhere down the hill hammers and saws were busy and country music was playing out of somebody's truck radio. Zoyd was out of smokes.
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>"Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car."
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>Oh, wait - opening lines - from the same book, "Amy called the whale punkin."
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>YB serious? ;)

I just picked up 3 books by Moore. One of them is Fluke. I've glanced at it but I haven't started reading it yet. You recommend?