Splendid Beginnings.

Great opening lines are known among writers as "grabbers."

Beause a reader, once hooked, hungers for more words.

I was reminded of this as I read the opener of the book Furious Love:  Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century:   "I am forever punished by the gods for being given the fire and trying to put it out. The fire, of course, is you."

Tell me you wouldn't want to read more.

I did.