Fine. I'll tag myself

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Fine. I'll tag myself

Tam has the book meme thingie going and open-tagged me

I'm only doing this because I'm a geek.

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
2. Find page 123.
3. Find the first five sentences.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

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I'm open tagging too. I wasn't actually going to post this, but when I tried it out it was funny how unintelligible that paragraph was outside of any context.

rolled out on Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:24 AM

Comments

# re: Fine. I'll tag myself - tam

Rolled Out On: 4/24/2008 9:59 AM

Mine was Standard Catalog of Military Firearms, 3rd Edition. What was yours?

# re: Fine. I'll tag myself - Robb Allen

Rolled Out On: 4/24/2008 10:03 AM

Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed.

Guaranteed to put to sleep a manic insomniac tripping on 500mg of caffeine and meth.

# re: Fine. I'll tag myself - Matthew

Rolled Out On: 4/24/2008 10:12 AM

That is one evil, evil meme. I am so never doing anything like it again.

# re: Fine. I'll tag myself - Boyd

Rolled Out On: 4/24/2008 1:59 PM

Having read waaaay too many books like that, I contend that those sentences are unintelligible even in context.

# re: Fine. I'll tag myself - Linoge

Rolled Out On: 4/24/2008 2:03 PM

Oy. I tag Uncle, and now look what happens!

# re: Fine. I'll tag myself - DirtCrashr

Rolled Out On: 4/24/2008 5:42 PM

People often say things like, "Just get a book and learn how to do it yourself!" I like to read and have pretty good comprehension but for some things (like that) I can't really, and really I can't. Certain things require actual hand-on practice and many failures before the light-bulb of comprehension kicks-in.

# re: Fine. I'll tag myself - dustydog

Rolled Out On: 4/25/2008 8:56 AM

Well, if you pick up a technical book of course it'll be technical.
But it works ok for fiction:

"The outer aappearance remained simlar - the black goat hair over sharp dark features - but in the long years since his awakening from the ghola state he had undergone an inner metamorphosis. She wondered now, as she had wondered many ties, what the ghola rebirth-after-death might have hidden in the secret loneliness of him. Before the Tleilaxu had worked their subtle science on him, Duncan's reactions had borne clear labels for the Atreides - loyalty, fanatic adherence to the moral code of his mercenary borebears, swift to anger and swift to recover."

# re: Fine. I'll tag myself - Gregory Morris

Rolled Out On: 4/25/2008 9:12 AM

I can't participate in this meme from work, because it would be an OPSEC violation. Maybe this weekend when I'm at home and always have a pile of books within easy reach.