Opening Sentence Game

[Empty Wallet]

One would guess at The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway

Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

(I actually have an autographed copy of this book.)

[Lady Quindecim]

I had to google it. I would never have gotten it. But it has only been posted a few hours, so I really should leave it for someone else to have a chance to answer _without_ googling.

It was so exciting to see so much activity in the thread, you know?

Oh, what the hey. I will white it out in case you want to try on your own.
Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum

Okay:

She lay on her back fastened by leather straps to a narrow bed with a steel frame.

(No, this is not one of /those/ books.) I think this is classic-to-be.

[Empty Wallet]

Is that from a book by the Stig?

[Lady Quindecim]

Yes. Yes, it is.

[Wetmelon]

Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

That's gotta be One Flew Under the Cuckoo's Nest?