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- Choose five to ten of your all time favorite books.
- Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
- Don’t reveal the author or the title of the book.
- 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. Sins of Jesus - 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. Pharmako/poeia - Dale Pendell
3. Pharmacodynamics is the study of the effects and actions of drugs on living organisms. Pharmakodynamis - Dale Pendell
4. Once upon a time, there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
5a. The rabbit had been run over minutes before. Sabriel - Garth Nix
5b. Deep within a dream, Lirael felt someone stroking her forehead. Lirael - Garth Nix
5c. There was another fog, far away from the smog of Corvere. Abhorsen - 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. Hyperion - 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. Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
6c. You are reading this for the wrong reason. Endymion - Dan Simmons
6d. "The Pope is dead, long live the Pope!" Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
7. Context is everything. Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
8. The Eighth World Futurological Congress was held in Costa Rica. Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem.
9. At 19.00 hours ship's time, I made my way to the launching bay. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
10. The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcatagory. Snow Crash - 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. House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
12. The Pentabarf was discovered by the hermit Apostle Zarathud in the Fifth Year of the Caterpillar. The Principia Discordia - Malaclypse the Younger.