Book Game!

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Teh rules:
1. Choose ten of your all-time favorite novels.
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.



1. It was a nice day.

2. The fire pit was about twenty-five feet long by ten feet wide, and perhaps two feet deep. - Job, A Comdy of Justice - R. Heinlein. Point to duane_kc.

3. That was when I saw the Pendulum. - Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco. Point for orcjohn

4. A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. - Dune, Frank Herbert. Point for fionnabhar

5. It was love at first sight.

6. The magician's underwear has just been found in a cardboard suitcase floating in a stagnant pond on the outskirts of Miami. Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins. Point for orcjohn

7. It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton. Illuminatus!, Shea and Wilson. Point for rfunk

8. People's lives - their real lives, as opposed to their simple physical existences - begin at different times. - The Dark Half, Stephen King. Point to orcjohn

9. These two very old people are the father and mother of Mrs. Bucket. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl. Point for fionnabhar

10. This inscription could be seen on the glass door of a small shop, but naturally, this was only the way it looked if you were inside the dimly lit shop, looking out at the street through the plate glass door. The Neverending Story, Michael Ende. Point for fionnabhar