Top 10 Most Outrageous Opening Lines in Literature

THE METAMORPHOSIS [1915] Franz Kafka Image

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

We stumbled upon this list of outrageous first lines on alternativereel.com and the above line stuck out, but the whole list was equally as thought-provoking. You can find it here.