What’s Your Favorite Opening to a Book?

This Tuesday night at the first of our weekly Amigo Road Book Club meetings, here at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, we compared the first lines of “Holy Toledo,” Ken Korach’s book on Renaissance Man Bill King (that’s his painting to the left), to some of the great openings in world literature. Our conclusion: Ken’s opening compares quite nicely! “Robert Cohn was once …