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Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.


Here's mine: No words on page 56. "Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth" by Nick Murray:

"Second, and much more insidious, people seriously underestimate the long term risks of NOT owning stocks."

Mine happens to be Nietzsche's "Beyond good and evil" and this is what I came up with for the 5th sentence.

"At whatever standpoint of philosophy one may place oneself nowadays, seen from every position, the ERRONEOUSNESS of the world in which we think we live is the surest and most certain thing our eyes can light upon: we find proof after proof thereof, which would fain allure us into surmises concerning a deceptive principle in the ‘nature of things.’"


That happens to be the book I have at work with me... had I been home it probably would have been a star wars novel.... :oops:

You know what, sadly the closest book just hardly had 56 pages, and even worse was that the fith sentance was the last one...


Page 56: "THis one time when I was a kid, I was playing under the kitched, and my mom came looking for me.

From Disney's "Princess Story Collection"

Only one sentence on page 56...."Sleepy likes to nap."

mine has a bad word in it. an anatomical word, but not a PG-rated word. :oops:

Mine was a book with no sentences at all on page 56.

This is sad cause I haven't gotten to the 56th page in this book yet... but here it goes. Can anybody guess what book this is from? (hint: it's very famous)

"At the Community Center you could always tell when he had been playing table tennis by the dampness of the bat handle."

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Originally Posted by icygirl

This is sad cause I haven't gotten to the 56th page in this book yet... but here it goes. Can anybody guess what book this is from? (hint: it's very famous)

"At the Community Center you could always tell when he had been playing table tennis by the dampness of the bat handle."

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Animal farm

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Originally Posted by Beardedragon

Animal farm

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LOL... right author, wrong book!

"The music changed, and Charlie tapped on Edward's shoulder"

Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

The Lake House, by James Patterson (my husband's book)

"They were good-looking and all, even beautiful, but it just wasn't right, what they were, whatever the hell they were."

I've never read this book. :)

Oh man... Good thing Twilight is about a foot farther than the Readers Digest Fix It Yourself Manual...

Page 56 5th sentence:
"Before buying a tool, make sure it's the right one for the job."

Hmmm. Good advice.

don't forget... if you don't have words on page 56... then share what's on page 57 or 55 :)

George Carlin: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops

"People deserve the truth."

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Originally Posted by Earl

George Carlin: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops

"People deserve the truth."

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First of all impressive that something from George Carlin was presentable on this site! I love and miss him.

Second, here is mine.

"Finally, let's turn our attention to high Reynolds number applications, such as the flow past a tennis ball, a golf ball, or a baseball."

Elements of Fluid Mechanics by David Wilcox

Yes, I am a nerd.

"I could spin a web if I tried," said Wilbur, boasting.

From Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

On the shelf nearest the couch under my ball pythons tank. :D

"I show up at orientation stumbling drunk, eyes still bloodshot, smelling like a speak-easy"

From possibly one of the best books ever wrote. Tucker Max's : I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

The Lake House, by James Patterson (my husband's book)

"They were good-looking and all, even beautiful, but it just wasn't right, what they were, whatever the hell they were."

I've never read this book. :)

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You should. It is a great book!

Mine sentence is boring. "Tell me about work." From Kathy Reichs's Devil Bones

Hi,

you think yours was boring?

"Current vetinary knowledge places great emphasis on supporting the immune system of these reptiles, both to prevent medical problems and to augment treatment when they do arise."

From "The Ball Python Manual" by Philippe de Vosjoli et al.

I don't read much hardcopy when I'm at the computer. :oops:


dr del

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Originally Posted by icygirl

this is sad cause i haven't gotten to the 56th page in this book yet... But here it goes. Can anybody guess what book this is from? (hint: It's very famous)

"at the community center you could always tell when he had been playing table tennis by the dampness of the bat handle."

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1984

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For an animal that thrives on consistency, this can be quite stressful, especially when coupled with the sudden change in environment.

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The Complete Ball Python by Kevin McCurley

In 1891 he bought the huge Pacific Winery in San Jose and became Northern California's leading wine entrepreneur.

Napa Wine - A History by Charles L. Sullivan

" Following incubation under milder conditions, such denatured proteins often spontaneously returned to their native conformations, indicating that these conformations were directly determined by the amino acid sequence."




Cheers,
Kat

"In that first year, too, she bore a healthy son to Matholwch."

The Enchanted World-Giants and Ogres... closest book on the shelf, fun stuff Aleesha! :D

"We watched him go into the fire."

Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

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Originally Posted by Laooda

"In that first year, too, she bore a healthy son to Matholwch."

The Enchanted World-Giants and Ogres... closest book on the shelf, fun stuff Aleesha! :D

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i'm having fun seeing what people have near them - book-wise. :weirdface

So I wanted to try again when I got home and I was wrong - the nearest book to the computer wasn't a Star Wars book. However... neither of the two nearest... "A bit of Rough" and "Roughhousing" (both romance novels...) had appropriate for this forum lines... :oops:

So after them the next closest was "The Laughing Corpse" by Laurell K. Hamilton:

"Just two necromancers talking shop."

My closest book right now is Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonsong".

"She dusted the sand from her hands and started to walk toward one end of the little cove, to begin a systematic search for the easiest way up."

Mine is very long and complex.




Really makes you think.




It may change your life!





Here it is.....





"Right."

im taking computer science so this was on my desk...
Java Methods A&AB
by: Maria & Gary Litvin

"If you compare an object to a web page, a reference is like the page's URL (web address)."

A solemn thing it was, I said,
A woman white to be,
And wear, if God should count me fit,
Her hallowed mystery.

Emily ****inson.

"We are the fire that will consume them, belly and bowel, head and heart, many flames of us, but one fire."

-Ender's Game
By Orson Scott Card

"Hoping for something!"

5th Horseman - by James Patterson

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Originally Posted by Pandora

"The music changed, and Charlie tapped on Edward's shoulder"

Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

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This was mine too lol

Hm, I don't have a book near me at the moment, but I'm working on the book I'm writing. Not yet to page 56 but here is my favorite line so far.

"I would worry if they were normal gators, but they're all bark and no bite!"

"It was quite compatible with severe restraints on speech, religion, and personal behavior."

it's from a history text book, talking about the puritans

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Originally Posted by OhBalls

Hm, I don't have a book near me at the moment, but I'm working on the book I'm writing. Not yet to page 56 but here is my favorite line so far.

"I would worry if they were normal gators, but they're all bark and no bite!"

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Yea! :clap:

Here's mine.

"The field is small," Kohler said, "but it's bringing fresh answers to some old questions-questions about the universe and the forces that bind us all.

Dan Brown Angels and Demons

When the later Europeans landed in the Americas and other parts of the world with Columbus and his successors, they found to their astonishment that the native peoples were telling the same stories and myths that were told in Europe and the Middle and Near East.

Children of the Matrix - eBook
David Icke

"She isolated at least a half a dozen stings (She thought there was one location, on her left side just above the hip, where she might have sustained two or even three --it was the sorest place of all)."

"The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"

Stephen King