Five Almost Famous First Lines

They call me Ishmael, but my name is Bob;
more appropriate for a life at sea.

It was the best of times,
It was the worst of times;
God how I hate grading
math tests.

He was born with the gift of laughter,
and a sense that the world was mad,
and the man he thought his enemy,
was really just his dad.

MARLEY was dead: to begin with.
As if he weren’t already difficult
to shop for
at Christmas.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Now - what could possibly
go wrong?