A bunch of us readers are sharing the first lines of a book and we all link up at the Linky at A Few More Pages.

Right now I’m reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I’m enjoying myself a lot.

And this is how it begins:

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet that was dying fast.

One of them was a science-fiction writer named Kilgore Trout. He was a nobody at the time, and he supposed his life was over. He was mistaken. As a consequense of the meeting, he became one of the most beloved and respected human beings in history.

The man he met was an automobile dealer, a Pontiac dealer named Dwayne Hoover. Dwayne Hoover was on the brink of going insane.