(Thanks to V’star Bernie for this game idea)
Hey V’stars! This week’s game:
* Grab the book closest to you. Now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Post that sentence as a comment.
* Don’t go looking for your favorite book, or the coolest one you have – just grab the closest one.
Here’s mine:
“Sometimes a role becomes so familiar that it is difficult to give up.”
What’s yours?
“If you’re in a very high energy environment, you should be the James Bond guy that moves slowly and smoothly and stands out in that way.”
D. If mental retardation, a speech-motor or sensory deficit, or environmental deprivation is present, the language difficulties are in excess of those usually associated with these problems.
– Man, you ask what you get, it’s my DSM book.
as a result they travel at different speeds within the medium and so are refracted through different angles.
Physics book :S
‘And what if we arrange for Katenka’s unhappiness, what if she really takes it into her head…’
-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“In less than a year, he would have doubled his flocks and he would be able to do business with the Arabs, because he was now able to speak their strange language.”
-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“PromisesAre Like Pie Crusts,Easily Broken.”
That Is really smart^^^^^^^
People think I’m strange because I want to know, and I ask questions.
–Legend of the Seeker, Terry Goodkind
“‘You ever hear about how when you stab somebody, it’s really personal?’ Chris said once.”
-It’s Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong
Hey V, which book is yours from?
But of the people primed to be polite, the overwhelming majority-82 percent-never interrupted at all.
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
nice post the idea very creepy and exciting
“We may be sure this proved a most agreeable surprise to Claudio.”
- Tales from Shakespere By: Charles and Mary lamb.
excerpt summary from the play “Much Ado About Nothing.”
In the normal course of events, an average human being dosen’t need to notice that he or she is ignorant of much of outside reality, that we see only a trillionth of what is out there, that we feel even less, just as are by design ignorant of the blind spost in our eyes. The Healing Brain by Robert Ornstein and David Sobel
“”" We are all on the same playing field “”"
Book: Above all else (directions for life):)
I had a woman in every city: Salt Lake,Las Vegas, Los Angeles.
Book: A Cup of Comfort for Friends Edited by Colleen Sell
curious of what this book is about
V
“Typically, worry lines develop across the forehead, the jaw is clenched tight and the eyes can assume a hard, staring look, even appearing to stand out of their sockets.”
Book is The Illustrated Guide to Massage and Aromatherapy.
“But it takes a remarkable person to truly appreciate and use what lies in a Valley.” Peaks and Valleys by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
“Ward’s curious creation of HumpintheMiddle affectionately became known as CamelCase.” (Andrew Lih, _The Wikipedia Revolution_)
“The owner himself was in the back of the shop, whistling along with the music as he ran a steam iron over a shirt, his movements sharp and energetic.” The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Jerusalem antiquities market had recently been flooded with Egyptian scarabs, jewelry, and alabaster and bronze vessels, and with exquisit painted potery from Mycenaean Greece- all typical grave offerings from the 13th century B.C.
(National Geographic-VOL. 162, NO. 6 December 1982)
56th page 5th sentence
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
Bible (Book of Genesis; old testament)when Jacob wrestles with God
And Pharao’s servants said to him: How long shall we endure this scandal? Let the men go to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Dost thou not see that Egypt is undone?
EXODUS CHAPTER 10 V.7 [BIBLE]
At least he knew what he wanted in life.
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Neil Strauss
how many of you guys have read or is reading THE GAME?
V
“Sometimes finding the right balance is relatively easy”
PRESIDENT Barack Obama, “The Audacity of Hope”
Hell is described like this:
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round as on great furnace flamed – yet from those flamesno o light, but rather darkness visible served only to discover sights of woe. Regions of sorrow, doleful shaded, where peace and rest can never dwell, hope never somes that comes to all.
The wind was light but steady a few minutes past sunrise, and the double-end canoe, under the lateen sail, cut a path through the water. Abram sharpened the steel harpoon head with a stone as they glided along.
The Bomb by Theodore Taylor
Literal: So we have a family of sets {An:neZ} = {[n-1,n]:neZ} and each set in the family consists of all the real numbers in a closed interval of length 1.
Foundations of Higher Mathematics
haha gotta love the math textbooks!
V
The woman and the child were dead in the car, and the man, Campion died on his way to the hospital.
The Stand by Stephen King
i translated the sentence in english because the book i wrote it from is in hungarian so the translation may not be correct. my copy sounds like this:
Az asszony és a gyerek holtan a kocsiban, a férfi, Campion pedig a kórházba menet halt meg.
Granite inselberg, like a great igneous gumdrop, protruding above forest canopy.
“Watch the outtakes at the end to see the mishap that nearly killed [Jackie] Chan.”
From Leonard Maltin’s 2006 Movie Guide. The sentence is describing the movie “Armour of God” (1986 Hong Kong).
BTW, sentence 4 is a little more interesting. “Fight with four leather-clad women is a blast.” LOL!
Lilly hurried from one plant to another.
“These controlling images are designed to make racism, sexism, and poverty appear to be natural, normal, and an inevitable part of everyday life.” -Law and Violence Against Women