Statistics for Opening Lines of Books #2

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Opening line	Book	% Correct
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...	A Tale of Two Cities	92%
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.	Pride and Prejudice	85%
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	76%
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.	The Old Man and the Sea	68%
It was a pleasure to burn.	Fahrenheit 451	64%
...light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.	Lolita	49%
In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.	The Great Gatsby	49%
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.	The Bell Jar	43%
You better not never tell nobody but God.	The Color Purple	20%
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.	The Hunger Games	16%
It was love at first sight.	Catch-22	15%
A screaming comes across the sky.	Gravity's Rainbow	7%
I was born twice...	Middlesex	7%
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...	If on a Winter's Night a Traveler	5%
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.	Life of Pi	3%