Pulling some random books off my shelf that I think fit with this author’s idea of a “good” opener: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo > The trial was irretrievably

Pulling some random books off my shelf that I think fit with this author’s idea of a “good” opener: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo > The trial was irretrievably over; everything that could be said had been said, but he had never doubted that he would lose. Slaughterhouse-five > All this happened, more or less. The House of God > Except for her sunglasses, Berry is naked. Everything is Illuminated: > It was March 18, 1971, when Trachim B’s double-axle wagon either did or did not pin him against the bottom of the Brod River.