book review opening lines that 100% guarantee i won't be reading
June 18, 2001
1. "Set in Texas during the 1860s..." 2. "For the scrappy Floridians in Heather Sellers's first book..." 3. "'The Rights of Desire' takes its title from a remark in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace,' and Andre Brink's work is manifestly an analogue and answer to that austere and brilliant novel." 4. "How cool was Terry Southern?" 5. "How the angiosperms - ..." (here the dash is actually part of the opening line and not merely representative of my near immediate loss of interest)