Books: opening and closing lines
Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner
Ken Kesey. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Iain Banks. The Wasp Factory
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Chuck Palahniuk. Fight Club
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment
Bram Stoker. Dracula
First: 3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
Last: Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake.
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
First: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'
Last: Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make THEIR eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
Theodore Dreiser. The Financier
First: The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more.
Last: What wise man might not read from such a beginning, such an end?
Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
First: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
Last: I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger...a Man on the Move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
Helen Fielding. Bridget Jones's Diary
First: I will not drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
Last: An excellent year's progress.
William Golding. Lord of the Flies
First: The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
Last: He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance.
Stephen King. The Green Mile
First: This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.
Last: We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
Alan Alexander Milne. Winnie the Pooh
First: Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
Last: He nodded and went out... and in a moment I heard Winnie-the-Pooh—bump, bump, bump—going up the stairs behind him.
Joanne Rowling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
First: It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.
Last: His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice
First: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Last: Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the
persons, who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.

