E for Electrifying Openings

I thought this would be a fun poll, because you don't need to have read these books in order to vote. In fact, it's almost better if you haven't! All we need to know is which opening grabs your attention the most. And who knows, maybe you'll be inspired to pick the book up. :)

Please vote for your fave opening and, as always, if you know of a great opening you'd rather choose, tell us about it!! 

It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984, George Orwell

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it. Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.  Waiting, Ha Jin

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

It was the day my grandmother exploded. The Crow Road, Iain M. Banks

All children, except one, grow up. Peter Pan,  J.M. Barrie

My mother is dead. Dad killed her. Playing In Traffic, Gail Giles

It isn’t true what they say about my brother. That he ate those children. Dark of the Moon, Tracy Barrett

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die. The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater