Write down, in no particular order, the first sentences of ten of your favourite books and see if your friends can guess what those books are.
*he hee* These are just a few favorites, otherwise this list would get very very long.
Edit: 5/10 ... ok, I'll fill in the answers at this point, as I doubt some of them would be guessed at anyway. :P
1. When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta. - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
2. The first thing Tanaquil saw almost every morning on waking was her mother's face. - Black Unicorn, Tanith Lee
3. I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. - Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
4. I was the youngest of three daughters. - Beauty, Robin McKinley
5. All the successful revolutions of the past have been particularistic revolutions of minority classes seeking to assert their specific interests over those of society as a whole. - Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin
6. "Show me heaven, show me hell", she asked, "show me what lies beyond." - Dawn: Lucifer's Halo, Joseph Michael Linsner
7. Wake up, sir. - The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman
8. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. - The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
9. In the last tewnty years, alongside the often noted resurgence of "occult" and "magical" groups, a diverse and decentralized religious movement has sprung up that remains comparatively unnoticed, and when recognized, is generally misunderstood. - Drawing Down The Moon, Margot Adler
10. It ended with a dream. - Kushiel's Avatar, Jacqueline Carey
-Me.