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