Today just for fun I'm going to try a game of word association.  I've got a copy of the novel Dune by Frank Herbert and I'm going to open it to 10 random pages, select the first word I see and then write the first thing that comes to mind.  Since it's a science fiction novel I'm thinking there might be some weird words in there and it'll be interesting to see what I associate with them.  All right, here goes nothing!

1. Duke - Earl

2. Crossed - the road (like the chicken)

3.  Degrees - Cold

4. Necessities - (Sings the Bear Necessities from the Jungle Book)

5. Kissed - Grandma on the cheek

6. Caladan - reminds me of Caliban, who I believe is a Shakespearean character, but who I associate with a mutant from the X-Men comics.

7. Fewer - Less... (I know that's a boring answer, but it's the first thing that popped in my head) 

8. Other - The Others on the TV show Lost.

9. Paul's - something that belongs to my uncle, who happens to be named Paul.

10. Her - That girl.

Hmm...  Well that was kind of interesting.  Some of my responses seemed pretty basic, but I guess that's likely to happen with first responses.  I really tried to react quickly and not overthink it.  

I only got one word that I don't know what the heck it is, which would be Caladan.  I actually got Duke twice, but I decided to skip it the second time and choose something else.  There must be a lot of Dukes in there.  I read Dune back when I was in high school, but that was a long time ago, so I don't remember much.  I do remember the main character was Paul Atreides so it's not too surprising I got Paul's as one of my random word choices.  I'm planning on re-reading it sometime soon, which is why I had a copy close to hand.

At any rate, that was kind of fun.  I might have to try it again sometime with a different book.