" 'Don't shoot guns into the hurricane.' Elsewhere this would go without saying, but Floridians need to be told." - Naked Came the Florida Man by Tim Dorsey (Morrow, $27.99). "I unlocked the safe beneath my desk, grabbed my old service automatic, and crept toward my bedroom doorway, stealthy until I was brought to grief by a Lego Duplo that stung the sole of my foot." - American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson (Random House, $27). "In the month of May 1898, on his wedding night, Thomas Griffith Smolders was chased around his hotel room, not by his bride, as you might expect, but by a ball of fire-luminous and strangely cool." - The Iconoclast's Journal by Terry Griggs (Biblioasis, $14.95). Lately I've found some books whose first lines intrigued me enough to keep going. When I am browsing for a book to read, the first line determines if I will read any further (although once I bought a book based only on its title- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet-and was delighted with my recklessness).
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