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Here's an interesting one. (I like the short ones.)(It's number 369 at the link.
FIRST LINE: "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith."
Answer: Stranger in a Strange Land BY Robert A. Heinlein
Here's another:FIRST LINE: "It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about."
ANSWER: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court BY Mark Twain
This was # 354 at:
FIRST LINE: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"ANSWER: Nineteen Eighty-Four BY George Orwell
This was #8 at
FIRST LINE: "It was my privilege to know the late Jack Crabb - frontiersman, Indian scout, gunfighter, buffalo hunter, adopted Cheyenne - in his final days upon this earth." ANSWER: Little Big Man BY Thomas Berger
This was #362 at:
"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times,"Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities,"
Yes, that's a good one, Nina.
"It was a dark and stormy night" in Madeleine L'Engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME
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Books mentioned in this topic
Little Big Man (other topics)Nineteen Eighty-Four (other topics)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (other topics)
Stranger in a Strange Land (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Thomas Berger (other topics)George Orwell (other topics)
Mark Twain (other topics)
Robert A. Heinlein (other topics)
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Interesting!