the Greater Nomadic Council

Bad Beginnings

The Little Professor directs our attention to the Lyttle Lytton Contest, a contest that seeks to find the worst invented opening sentences under 25 words for a novel. The winner for 2005:

John, surfing, said to his mother, surfing beside him, "How do you like surfing?"

I like some of the honorable mentions better, but that one is pretty atrocious. In line, waiting, waiting, waiting for his hamburger, Steve, a man with hairy nostrils, felt something.