It was the best of opening lines, it was the worst of opening lines...

I just ran across a copy of KW Jeter's, Noir, a sort of noir meets cyberpunk novel (Jeter was a close friend of PK Dick, apropos of nothing). It is an interesting concept rather well executed...not brilliant, but engaging and well crafted. I mention it here because it has one of the all time great opening lines:

"At that moment, as the blue spark of sex burned a wire through his tongue, the heavens rained fire."

I have always thought that a strong opening line needs to grab the reader and engage them...it does not necessarily need to make sense *laughing*. I think what I love so much about this like is that it is a great example of that concept...it does not, word for word, make sense, but it absolutely gets its essence across to the reader.

Good book, great opening line, happy thursday to us all.