Not So Famous Openers Quiz - The Answers

So, the not-so-famous opening lines are from:

1.  The Witching Hour, Anne Rice (Her early, creepy phase, but not bloody)
2.  The Chosen, Chaim Potok (A classic bildungsroman)
3.  The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett (A great historic novel with romance and mystery)
4.  The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton (One of the early bio-medical disaster novels)
5.  The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (A metaphor for how Africa has been used by so many, as well as a family saga of survival)
6.  Salem's Lot, Stephen King (An early vampire novel that is still one of the best of the genre)
7.  Snow in August, Pete Hamill (Another bildungsroman, but with golems, and where you ask yourself what really happened)

     Did you guess any of them?

If you haven't had the pleasure of reading any of the above, give them a try; they're just fun, past-paced, interesting reads. And while I am recommending, I highly recommend Chris Bohjalian's The Double Bind.  When I finished that book, I said outloud,  "What the heck just happened?"  And then I had to start to read it all over again.  You may want to re-read The Great Gatsby as a prequel, also, which is what my book club did.  It made a great tandem read.   

I'm currently reading Amy Waldman's The Submission.