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So the rules of the thread are as follows:

1.) Find the closest book to you
2.) Flip to page 123.
3.) Find the fifth sentence on that page.
4.) Share sentences 5-7.

As a side note, I don't consider one word shouts in quotations to be a sentence.

Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson - orgasm in literature form (~1000 pages of pure, unadulterated, epic high fantasy!).

Empire by Orson Scott Card

"Genghis Khan tore up the world. Hitler lost in the end, but he killed millions of people first. Really bad things happen."

When I posted this thread the closest book to me was my physics lab manual. I couldn't really copy that without some sort of dynamic image generator, so I decided to wait till I came back to my apartment instead.

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russel

"Hence the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism. Jeremy Bentham, a typical Protestant freethinker, considered that the greatest of all pleasures is self-approbation. He was therefore not tempted to eat or drink to excess, to be guilty of loose-living, or to steal his neighbor's purse, for none of these would have given him the exquisite thrill he shared with Jack Horner, but not on such easy terms, since he had to forgo the Christmas pie in order to get it."

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

"If we have to burn, let's take a few more with us. Here!
He remembered the books and turned back."

The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick

Kind of an odd selection. Not that much of this book is making a whole lot of sense. The setting is quite intriguing, however.

From The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writings by Richard Dawkins.

He introduced the 'unsentimental calculus' of parental investment theory, and nowhere was it more unsentimental than in Triver's theory of parent offspring conflict. Trivers thinks about evolutionary strategy in economic terms. His concept of parental investment is defined as an 'opportunity cost': the amount invested by a parent in any one offspring is measured as the lost opportunity to invest in other offspring.

This guy, apparently, has a lot of access privileges. A lot more than Hiro. "Name's Lagos," the gargoyle says.

A new one for me, this time from The Bonehunters, again by Erikson:

Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without A Country. I actually finished this book last week, but haven't started anything new.

There's only one sentence on page 123, and it's a chapter title.

Profound as always.

The Natural Way to Draw, by Kimon Nicolaïdes.

"Tragedy is caused by a man's nature and environment and is as irrelevant to painting as it is to other professions. Many young art students react aginat the prosaic world and feel that they must be "different". They are afraid if they act like other people they will be like other people."

"The three magicians bowed as Magnus left, heading for the rift room where he would power up the gateway between Kelewan and Midkemia. Then they returned their attention to the Talnoy. All felt the same thing; there was something about this creature that Magnus was not telling them."

Here my book only has 79 pages so I'll just use page 12 as opposed to 123 cool?

Page 12 of Poke'mon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time Explorer's Guide Illustrated by Ken Sugimori

"For example, the kinds of traps that you'll encounter will be different. The kinds of Poke'mon that appear in the dungeons will be different, so the kinds of Poke'mon that you can recruit for your team will also be different! If you want to play in a dungeon from a different version of the game, you can exchange Friend Rescue Jobs with another player who has that version."

The Darwin Awards- Evolution in Action.

Nearest book to me at work is a phone book...


Page 23 line 5 reads: "Administrator
508 E Main St............689-4700"

"Formally, consumers act as if they solve a constrained optimization problem. The consumer's utility maximization problem, or [U M P], is given by: "

I didn't know anyone else here even knew about these books. Which one are you reading? I've read all of the Magician series and all of the "Krondor" series. I'm taking a mini break from them, though, but they're so good.

This is from "The Redemption of Althalus" by David and Leigh Eddings.

"Althalus rode some distance away from the road, and with Emmy's instruction, he converted five of his gold blocks into coins marked with the idealized picture of a stalk of wheat, which identified them as having come from Perquaine. Then he rode into the city, where he stopped by a clothier's shop and bought himself some moderately elegant garments to disguise his rustic origins. Emmy chose not to comment when he emerged from the shop."

"Japan Airlines please.
Riben Hangkong Gongsi.
(Rr-bin Hahng-koong Goong-suh)"

It's from "Chinese in Plain English" by Boyé Lafayette de Mente

- The gods roamed its halls at will and the Harshini who loved there sought nothing more than wisdom and knowledge and safety from the foibles of humanity.
Nothing had ever disturbed it.
Until now. -

That is from "Treason Keep", book two of 6 from the Hythrum Chronicles by Jennifer Fallon.

I find it strange that the two trilogies should sold as The Hythrun Chronicles over the pond. In Australia and over here, we've got the Demon Child Trilogy (Medalon, Treason Keep and Harshini), and the Wolfblade Trilogy (Wolfblade, Warrior, Warlord... which is the Hythrun Chronicles in Australia).

Just to compare edition, from my copy of Treason Keep it's:

And the chapter (Chp. 12) ends with the fifth sentence.