Famous First and Last Lines

First Line:

"The moment one learns English, complications set in." This famous first line is from the novel Chromos which was published in the year 1990 by the author Felipe Alfau who lived from 1902 to 1999. This author is also known for other works, including Locos: A Comedy of Gestures and Sentimental Songs: La Poesia Cursi.

This book is a fiction novel that is post World War II and about American immigration. It is about many people from Spanish decent coming to an unfriendly New York City, New York. They are trying to connect their two worlds together, but they aren't meshing together well. It's a narrator telling a story about someone and then that someone is telling a story about another person and so on.

I would personally like to read this book, because it'd be something different for me. Chromos would challenge me as a reader. It may be confusing at first, just because the way it is written with the narrators telling of a story that connects to each narrator. It seems interesting enough, I'd like to know if the characters ever do connect their worlds together or try and make them work in the end. I'd like to see myself read and finish this book, or at least get into this book at some point in the future.

Last Line:

"P.S.
Sorry I forgot to give you the mayonnaise." This famous last line is from the novel Trout Fishing in America, which was published in the year 1967 by the author Richard Brautigan who lived from 1935 to 1984. He is also know for other works, including Revenge of the Lawn and The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster.

Trout Fishing in America has about forty different episodes and the novel has a unnamed narrator. Part of the story is about the experiences of the narrators boyhood. Another part of the story is about the experience the narrator has with trout fishing, but overlap with his boyhood experiences. Comfort is what the narrator is searching for in his adolescence and he is seeking it through nature.

I probably would not want to read this book, because trout fishing isn't something I am interested in. Also, it wouldn't connect with me because I am not a boy. It may be interesting, just because of the way it is written. I would have a hard time getting into this book, because it is written to where the book isn't in chronological order, it's written into an order where one event leads to the next event.