The top ten worst first lines for a novel...
For all you non-superbowl watchers out there... This year's 10 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest, aka "Dark and Stormy Night Contest" (run by the English Dept. of San Jose State University), wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel: 10) "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he... Sign in to see full entry.