Recommend a book by its first sentence

So you read 1 book and now you came to brag?

SKEER-AK! The cry of the pterodactyl electrified the air as the shadow of the thirty-foot leathery wings passed in front of the cave’s entrance.
Lost World II: Savage Patagonia

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.

For some reason I just really like that opening sentence. It's quirky and interesting.

"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head."
A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole

“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."

In those days, I was the one who came down from Nazareth to be baptized by John in the River Jordan.

“The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.” The Gunslinger -- Stephen King

It is also the last line in the Dark Tower series.

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.

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.