Has anyone got to grips with the voluminous Otherland series by Tad Williams, they put a whole new slant on VR and the www

What's your favorite,mind grabbing opening line in a book? My favorite is Ken Folletts' Pillars of the Earth -- "The small boys came early to the hanging"!! Catches you right there! Any others ? :) not quite an opening line, but none the less memorable "how do you take from a man who...