Take five books off your bookshelf...

Dude111

Directions:

1. Book #1 -- Take the First sentence
2. Book #2 -- Take the last sentence on page fifty
3. Book #3 -- Take the second sentence on page one hundred
4. Book #4 -- Take the next to the last sentence on page 150
5. Book #5 -- Take the final sentence of the book

Now <<>> Make the five sentences into a paragraph. (Not easy)

Heres mine:

The life of Milton is known to us in far more fullness of detail than that of any other major poet before the 18th century. We also know she also has some useful pots and pans,and several other things. There were beggers @ her house also so Carl Went up to the Begger and said "I am very sorry for you;can i do anything?" He replied saying he wanted some info on connecting 2 antennas to something,so carl said "Then you will need either some patch arrangement for switching antennas or a coaxial switch-about $60 for the feed system" Then the begger (Jake) went back to making his house.. When at last the house was finished,the cock flew to the very top of it,and crowed and crowed and crowed..

DazMarz

Dude111 wrote: »

Directions:

1. Book #1 -- Take the First sentence
2. Book #2 -- Take the last sentence on page fifty
3. Book #3 -- Take the second sentence on page one hundred
4. Book #4 -- Take the next to the last sentence on page 150
5. Book #5 -- Take the final sentence of the book

Now <<>> Make the five sentences into a paragraph. (Not easy)

The five books I used, in order, are

1: The Business Of Dying by Simon Kernick
2: Columbine by Dave Cullen
3: Filth by Irvine Welsh
4: Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry
5: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Paragraph:

There's a true story that goes like this. She never looked back to see. I think those benny-tabs have a high bi-carb content, so that's not helping either. No explosives. Someone has already taken out a Minolta cellular phone and called for a car, and then, when I'm not really listening, watching instead someone who looks remarkably like Marcus Halberstam paying a check, someone asks, simply, and not in relation to anything, "Why?" and though I'm not very proud that I have cold blood and that I can keep my nerve and do what I'm supposed to do, I catch something, then realise it: Why? and automatically answering, out of the blue, for no reason, just opening my mouth, words coming out, summarizing for the idiots: "Well, though I know I should have done that instead of not doing it, I'm twenty-seven for Christ sakes and this is, uh, how life presents itself in a bar or in a club in New York, maybe anywhere, at the end of the century and how people, you know, me, behave, and this is what being Patrick means to me, I guess so, well, yup, uh..." and this is followed by a sigh, then a slight shrug and another sigh, and above one of the doors covered by red velvet drapes in Harry's is a sign and on the sign in letters that match the drapes' colour are the words THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.

sceptre

Far more suited to Creative Writing so moving it there. Interesting idea as it seems to be more than just pulling the sentences from the books.

Dude111

Heh that wouldnt be so hard..

Actually doing that and having it make sense WOULD BE VERY HARD (I suppose it could be done though)

merlie

Books I used are as follows, though not in order!

1.My Word Is My Bond by Roger Moore
2.The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
3. All The River's Run by Nancy Cato
4.Margot Fonteyn by Meredith Daneman
5.The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown


Suddenly the hotel lounge was alive with effort and energy, and, for the length of the programme, all anxiety was banished, as it was banished daily in a dancer's life, during that hour of absolute identification with the body.It was just after midnight on 14 October 1927, when Lily Moore ( nee Pope) gave birth to a twenty-three-inch-long baby boy at a maternity hospital in Jefferys Road, Stockwell, London SW8. And again he was silent, confusedly debating how it was that this fellow, whom by habit he despised, should have overborne his own decision. For a moment, he thought he heard a woman's voice...the wisdom of the ages...whispering up from the chasms of the earth. "But I may have a long dress?"

Antilles

I just went through 1-4, but then had to stop. My 5th was Ulyssess, and there's no way I'm typing the last sentence of that book!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Book 1: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Book 2: Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Book 3: A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Pencil - Christopher Brookmyre
Book 4: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
Book 5: The Green Mile - Stephen King

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. He flung himself down at Jack's feet. It's lunchtime and they're playing football on the school pitch, carrying on the same game from morning playtime. But there were a number of things that would seem incredible about Dumbledore; that he had once received bottom marks in a Transfiguration test, for instance, or had taken up goat-charming like Aberforth. I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

dawvee

Book 1: William Blake, The Complete Illuminated Books
Book 2: Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Book 3: David Cope, Computer Models of Musical Creativity
Book 4: Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes
Book 5: Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: Let us see why this will not work. The program first analyzes such texture and character in the original music before it breaks this music into groupings, in order to ensure that continuity and changes of texture and character take place at reasonable locations during recombinance. Essential de-cision, when it is carried out and when it resists the constantly pressing ensnarement in the everyday and the customary, has to use violence. Damn it all, I can't think of anything, except those words of his... "HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!"

HalloweenJack

1. The Best of Myles - Flann O'Brien
2. The Big Nowhere - James Ellroy
3. The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
4. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
5. The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson

(I only have a few books with me, atm.)

I have received by post a number of papers inviting me to become a memberof the Irish Writers, Actors, Artists, Musicians Association and to pay part of my money to the people who run this company. "Hungry juicer - sort of like-". Muscle tone indicates her age is between sixteen and thirty. My attorney was already gone, scurrying through a maze of slot machines toward the first door. Sounds of a San Juan night, drifting across the city through layers of humid air; sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them, all the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks, the lonely sound of time passing in the long Caribbean night.