Famous First and Last Lines

"A screaming comes across the sky."

The author, Thomas Pynchon was born in 1937 and is currently still alive today he attended Cornell college and published the novel Gravity's Rainbow, where this quote is from, in 1973.

Gravity's Rainbow takes place at the end of World War II when V-2 bombs start falling on London and some British Intelligence members begin to notice that Lieutenant Slothrop of the United States Army has many sexual encounters that directly correspond to a map they found of the city showing the pinpoints of these encounters. Slothrop then begins a quest around post-war Europe. I do not personally think that this would be a book I would enjoy reading. I am sure it is a phenomenal piece of literature but most novels surrounding the War do not tend to hold my interest. 

"In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall your long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel."
This quote is from the novel Sister Carrie which was written by Theodore Dreiser published in 1900. This novel is about a girl named Carrie who moves to Chicago in hopes of leaving the midwest behind. Once she arrives she  meets a man that she eventually moves in with, then almost cheats on with a married man. That married man makes an appearance later in the novel as Carrie's love interest again. Towards the end of the novel Carrie becomes a Broadway star but things don't end up so well for her lover. This book sounds like it would peak my interest. It does sound like a slow moving book but I would definitely like to try and read it.