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1.  Choose five to ten of your all time favorite books.
2.  Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3.  Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4.  Now everyone try and guess! Cross them off as they're guessed correctly.

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1.  We lived in the village of Nazareth, an insignificant hillside town in Galilee, nowhere mentioned in the Scriptures - you probably haven't heard of it even if you come from northern Israel yourself.  <em>Sins of Jesus</em> - Richard Muller

2.  All the palmate-leaved ones, the / pinnate, and the pinnatifid, the entire - / Rosy Hawaiian Babies, wize Mazatec sages, / and the old Indian rope trick.  <em>Pharmako/poeia</em> - Dale Pendell

3.  Pharmacodynamics is the study of the effects and actions of drugs on living organisms.  <em>Pharmakodynamis</em> - Dale Pendell

4. Once upon a time, there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.  <em>Stranger in a Strange Land</em> - Robert A. Heinlein

5a. The rabbit had been run over minutes before. <em>Sabriel</em> - Garth Nix
5b. Deep within a dream, Lirael felt someone stroking her forehead. <em> Lirael</em> - Garth Nix
5c. There was another fog, far away from the smog of Corvere.  <em> Abhorsen</em> - Garth Nix

6a. The Consul awoke with a peculiar headache, dry throat, and sense of having forgotten a thousand dreams which only periods in cryogenic fugue could bring.  <em>Hyperion</em> - Dan Simmons
6b. On the day the armada went off to war, on the last day of life as we knew it, I was invited to a party.  <em>Fall of Hyperion</em> - Dan Simmons
6c. You are reading this for the wrong reason.  <em>Endymion</em> - Dan Simmons
6d. "The Pope is dead, long live the Pope!"  <em>Rise of Endymion</em> - Dan Simmons

7. Context is everything.  <em>Motherless Brooklyn</em> - Jonathan Lethem

8. The Eighth World Futurological Congress was held in Costa Rica.  <em>Futurological Congress</em> - Stanislaw Lem.

9. At 19.00 hours ship's time, I made my way to the launching bay.  <em>Solaris</em> - Stanislaw Lem

10. The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcatagory.  <em>Snow Crash</em> - Neal Stephenson

11. While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries attempting to describe or deride it, "authenticity" still remains the word most likely to stir a debate.  <em>House of Leaves</em> - Mark Danielewski

12. The Pentabarf was discovered by the hermit Apostle Zarathud in the Fifth Year of the Caterpillar.  <em>The Principia Discordia</em> - Malaclypse the Younger.

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