Book Meme

[jeffreyab]

[copied from fredcritter]

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
...along with these instructions.

I don't ordinarily do this but it is interesting:

"Some of the wood from the 1916 electric chair had been salvaged from Tennessee's old gallows and used to construct its replacement when hanging went out of fashion."

Now that says alot about crime and punishment and tradition in America.

Its from the "The Ballad of Frankie Silver" by Sharyn McCrumb the Sarnia Library's Book Club pick for December.

Which is a mystery novel. I just love fiction authors who do research.

Comments

[renniekins.livejournal.com]

Interesting!

This is boring to do at work...
"In particular, a boolean is not an integral type, and integer values cannot be used in place of a boolean."
(Java in a Nutshell, Flanagan)

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Yes its more fun to do on your day off at home.

But now I know more about Java.

[itsacountry.livejournal.com]

"We think that there are mysteries in the sky and under the water and in the plants which grow."

Ayn Rand, Anthem

What's odd about this book is that when it says "we", it is referring to a single person who speaks in the third person for the entire book. It's rather confusing, really.

Ayn Rand almost bullet proof?

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I could see reading Ayn Rand in a combat zone.

The nice thick book could slow down a spent bullet.

Re: Ayn Rand almost bullet proof?

[elizilla]

Anthem is one of the thinnest Ayn Rand books, not as good for this as some of the others.

Re: Ayn Rand almost bullet proof?

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of "The Fountainhead"

Re: Ayn Rand almost bullet proof?

[itsacountry.livejournal.com]

ROFL

Ain't that the truth.

[talyen.livejournal.com]

I want to play, too! Unfortunately, the nearest book is called Disaster Recovery Testing and the 5th sentence on page 23 says:

"Items from off-site storage are to be used for both walk through and live tests."

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Yes this meme is much less fun at work.

[twoofdtm.livejournal.com]

"Moving stiffly and painfully, he stretched out his hand, caught hold of the courier's, and let the man pull him up on the dragon's back."

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dragon Wing Vol. 1 The Death Gate Cycle

HA!!! And that's while I'm at work!! *sticks out tongue*

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Obviously some people are just big old slackers at work reading Weis and Hickman.

[theengineer.livejournal.com]

Nevertheless, the calls of the bosun and his mates piped All hands aft for a good half-minute down the hatchways.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Sharyn McCrumb rocks, doesn't she? I'm not a mystery reader, but I have both Bimbos Of The Death Sun and Zombies Of The Gene Pool...

Oh, and here's my sentence:

"They graze the backs of his knees as they bank around his husky columnar body."

From Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.