Book it, Book it real good

[Miyaga]

The rules are very straightforward and go as follows:

1. Grab the nearest book (that is at least 123 pages long).
2. Open to p. 123.
3. Go down to the 5th sentence.
4. Type in the following 2-3 sentences.


Lets see what is in our library

[Mr.Pushover]

Looks fun.


"Hello, Nick," said Harry
"Hello, hello," said Nearly Headless Nick, starting and looking around. He wore a dashing, plumed hat on his long curly hair, and a tunic with a ruff, which concealed the fact that his neck was almost completely severed.

[Miyaga]

The fat will solidify and it is then easy to spoon it off. Or float a paper towel on the surface of warm soup, and when it has absorbed as much fas as possible, discard. when the end becomes drenched in fat, cut off used part with scissors and repeat the process.

---------- Post added 27th Dec 2010 at 08:23 PM ----------

good one

[biisme]

Alright...closest book it is...

"Using small offset spatula, spread chocolate to cover strips easily and completely (some chocolate may extend beyond edges of paper strips). Using fingertips, lift chocolate-coated strips and place on foil-lined sheets."

[paperheart]

Blah, this is from a Civil War book my history class assigned.

Things were little better in Grant's army on the Mississippi, where the first attempts against Vicksburg had come to grief. Desertion rates rose sharply.

[Mirko]

The nearest book to me is William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

"The bushes crashed ahead of them. Boys flung themselves wildly from the pig track and scrabbled in the creepers, screaming. Ralph saw Jack nudged aside and fall."

[Owen]

This will be good.

In a related story, police reported that a thirty-two year old man had concocted a scheme to stage an accident in order to obtain prescription drugs. The plan was to jump out of a moving vehicle, become injured, go to the hospital, and receive narcotic painkillers. That plan failed when its mastermind, Lucas William Stenning, died at the scene due to head injuries.

Spoiler

It was The Darwin Awards, if you couldn't figure that out (Countdown to Extinction, specifically).

[Stuie]

I have Oscar Wilde plays here. This excerpt is part of A Woman of No Importance.

Lady Caroline: In that case, Lady Stutfield, they should be married off in a week to some plain respectable girl, in order to teach them not to meddle with other people's property.
Mrs Allonby: I don't think we should ever be spoken of as other people's property. All men are married women's property.

[Smile]

oh my god, the page number 123 didn't print in my book. It is the only page in the entire book that's number didn't print! Freaky

'"Just like a girl," said Edmund to himself, "sulking somewhere, and won't accept an apology." He looked around again and decided he did not much like this place, and had almost made up his mind to go home, when he heard, very far off in the wood, a sound of bells.

From 'The Chronicles of Narnia'

[stad90]

Oh boy... this is gonna be interesting lol.

"Debra brushed the hair from her face. 'Then what is it?' she said angrily. 'What about us? What about all the times we made love?' Her face began to tremble with emotion. 'You never said anything.' She threw her books onto the ground. 'How dare you tell me you suddenly think you like guys!'.

From the book "Rainbow Boys" by Alex Sanchez. Definitely awkward lol.

[flymetothemoon]

"So can I have a lift then?" She looked back at Lewis.

From "In Ecstasy" by Kate McCaffrey

Nearest book - Complex Analysis by Howie :

Let y be a contour, let f be holomorphic in a domain containing I(y)Uy* and let a be in I(y). Then the nth derivative of f exists for all n>0, and

[Miyaga]

i read Holomorphic as homophobic, yup i am defiantly gay

[Porphyrogenitus]

" "Let us see the cause of this cursed clamour," said he; here is a letter, and, if I mistake it not, it is in Saxon."
He looks at it, turning it round and round as if he had really some hopes of coming at the meaning by inverting the paper, and then handed it to De Bracy."

Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott. Don't ask me why it was lying around here...

[Beertruck]

He must've sighed, because Bern shielded her eyes with one graceful hand.

Viktor, you're wearing ye olde death-head again, she said. What's the matter?

But instead of saying, for the hundredth time, Oh, Bern, why Parnell and not me; or, Oh, Bern, why won't you marry me, he gave a grimace and ground his cigarette and said, We should be off, then, if we don't want the Krauts to catch us.







(Best American Short Stories 2010 - the actual story, I believe, is Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff)

[TheWanderer]

"In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceedeth obviously from the same source, whence their life and being also proceedeth. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterward see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause."

Self- Reliance- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Kerze]

Look, Charlie Brown! Look! I got some money from the Tooth Fairy! I put a tooth under my pillow last night and when I woke up this morning, I found this money.

The Complete Peanuts 1963-64, Charles M. Schultz

[Zontar]

"A pathname is geek-speak for the longest possible filename you can imagine. It's actually used to pinpoint a file's location on a certain disk drive and in a certain folder. Long. Technical. Complex. It's a wonder anyone has to deal with these things."

Some old-ass computer book from fifteen years ago.

[straal1972]

"Yeah he does."
Three words. smacking into the silence like lead. It was the way the troll said them. A suicidal kind of way.


Terry Pratchett "Thud"

[Miyaga]

omg terry pratchett is amazing