Meme Thing
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phinnia.
1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open it on page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Copy the next three sentences into your blog.
5. Tag five people. Or not.
There are actually two books closest to me -- right hand and left hand and all that. So here's The Day of Battle, by Rick Atkinson, and The Night of the Gun, by David Carr.
"You're bitching, first of all. Everybody knows why you're mad; they think I owe you money or whatever, that I'm not paying my coke debts. You did a lot of people a lot of favors, people liked you, sometimes people didn't like me."
From The Night of the Gun.
Perhaps aware that he resembled "a rather unsuccessful drygoods shopkeeper," as a Canadian correspondent wrote, the general preferred sitting alone in back so "there won't be any doubt which one is me." As he flicked his Egyptian fly whisk, one observer thought him "tense as a mousetrap," but when the car stopped and he stood on the seat his raspy voice carried with the authority of a man accustomed to being heard. "I advise all of you to leave the Eyetie wine alone."
From The Day of Battle. That's General Montgomery. Hee.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. ;-)
phinnia.1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open it on page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Copy the next three sentences into your blog.
5. Tag five people. Or not.
There are actually two books closest to me -- right hand and left hand and all that. So here's The Day of Battle, by Rick Atkinson, and The Night of the Gun, by David Carr.
"You're bitching, first of all. Everybody knows why you're mad; they think I owe you money or whatever, that I'm not paying my coke debts. You did a lot of people a lot of favors, people liked you, sometimes people didn't like me."
From The Night of the Gun.
Perhaps aware that he resembled "a rather unsuccessful drygoods shopkeeper," as a Canadian correspondent wrote, the general preferred sitting alone in back so "there won't be any doubt which one is me." As he flicked his Egyptian fly whisk, one observer thought him "tense as a mousetrap," but when the car stopped and he stood on the seat his raspy voice carried with the authority of a man accustomed to being heard. "I advise all of you to leave the Eyetie wine alone."
From The Day of Battle. That's General Montgomery. Hee.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. ;-)
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Date: 2008-08-25 03:40 am (UTC)The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor
"Nightmare of Eden continues the inexorable downward slide of the seventeenth season. Here viewers are presented with the concept that a race of monsters will instantly transform into an addictive drug when they are electrocuted. Further, the idea of portions of a planet being stored on a machine for later 'playback' was previously explored in Carnival of Monsters."
In my own (weak, yes) defense, I would like to state that my bookshelf also contains Asimov, Shakespeare, Wodehouse, and Fitzgerald. But you asked for the one in closest physical proximity, not the one of the greatest merit. Heh.
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Date: 2008-08-25 04:11 pm (UTC)The Abductor's Conspiracy by Jonathan Frakes
[Yes, Comm. Riker of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame]"Use gloves," Dr. Connell almost screamed, jumping in close to the bed. "The skin material may be acid."
"Thanks for warning me before now, Doc," Henry said, giving Cornell one of his nastiest looks.
The doctor half grinned at Henry as he handed him a pair of thin gloves from his pocket. "I just thought of it."
Looks like a lovely piece of cheesey sci-fi work I'll have to read when I am able. hee