New Game!: Grab A Book

[Koa]

Hey guys, have we seem to have got fond of games, here's another pointless one I stole from another forum cos I thought you'd all love it (and it'll probably take less than 5 minutes to take it totally off-topic...but then it's easy to come back :D)

Here's how it works:

Grab a book and open it on page 17, count, from bottom up, 5 lines and write the fifth line down here.

...and as I'm here, I'll start:
there is a great difference between walking the deck and remain-
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

:banana: :brow:

[Monica]

the game sounds nice but i don't particularly like the banana :)

times since I got in. He always put it back in the wrong place, too,
Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

[emily655321]

Hmm...interesting. :)

"Yes," said Pablo, "It was a very rare name. Something like that.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

[simon]

"Yet somebody had mowed the grass."

Mistress Masham's Repose, by TH White

[trismegistus]

"Yet somebody had mowed the grass."

"His pride in having at any time of his life achieved such a great social ..."

Hard Times - Dickens

[simon]

"...on the other side of the car. Just to be safe he reached out for..."

The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, by Steven Sherrill

[papayahed]

"Pug opened the letter after Warren went out. On arriving"

War and Rememberance, by Herman Wouk

How could Robert Mitchum possible be casted as Pug Henry in the miniseries. DOH!!!

[subterranean]

....although on a vastly smaller scale. We alone of His material creation...

"The Ten Commandments"..a publication from this religious group, The United Church of God.

[emily655321]

My brain's an old rag anyway,
-- James Tate, Selected Poems("Intimidations of an Autobiography")

...how apropos.

[Kiwi Shelf]

"...to interest him in you. It was ill done, ill timed. I..."
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

[amuse]

"Influence in the world, however, is a capital which has to be used..."
War and Peace by Count Leo Tolstoy

[verybaddmom]

"she only showed her long face with large features of a "

Germinal
-Emile Zola

[story645]

"seen' or 'seeing'- and you understand that all such pairs are"
The Last Days of Socrates
-Plato

[emily655321]

I got a kick out of this one...

"It's probably contaminated!"
The O-Zone --Paul Theroux

[imthefoolonthehill]

in an allusion 2. full of allusions - al- a.loud ((upside down e) loud') adv. 1. loudly. 2. with

webster's new world dictionary of the american language

[simon]

"Cszeks and Slovaks, all in picturesque attire..."

Dracula by Bram Stoker

[emily655321]

...and II (Advanced Calculus also recommended as a co-requisite.)
--Marlboro College fall 2004 course selection booklet

[verybaddmom]

are you OCD sufferrers going to compile this wonky list into one long and senseless story???
*she asks innocently*

[Koa]

OCD?

i wanted to post a line from the book i was reading but page 17 is still the introduction...

[verybaddmom]

OCD = obsessive compulsive disorder..see ocd haiku thread

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2773

[Koa]

ooooooooooooooh

[Miranda]

Now who'd be daft enough to wanna do a thing like that on Saturday night VBM?

'there is a great difference between walking the deck and remain- times since I got in. He always put it back in the wrong place, too, "Yes," said Pablo, "It was a very rare name. Something like that."Yet somebody had mowed the grass.""His pride in having at any time of his life achieved such a great social ...""...on the other side of the car. Just to be safe he reached out for...""Pug opened the letter after Warren went out. On arriving" ....although on a vastly smaller scale. We alone of His material creation...My brain's an old rag anyway "...to interest him in you. It was ill done, ill timed. I..." Influence in the world, however, is a capital which has to be used..." "she only showed her long face with large features of a " "seen' or 'seeing'- and you understand that all such pairs are" I got a kick out of this one... in an allusion 2. full of allusions - al- a.loud ((upside down e) loud') adv. 1. loudly. 2. with "Cszeks and Slovaks, all in picturesque attire..." ...and II (Advanced Calculus also recommended as a co-requisite.)

[emily655321]

"I got a kick out of this one" was just my personal comment. :D The book's line is "It's probably contaminated."

Hey, for anyone who's REALLY OCD, why don't we find books with pg17/line-5's that go along with the previous post? :banana: There's something that would kill a lot of time on a Saturday night. :D

[amuse]

teehee!!! :lol:

[Koa]

bah...:confused:

abbia ancora veramente colpito. Ci vuole un po' di tempo per-
J.D. Salinger - Il Giovane Holden
(might be better known to you as The Catcher In The Rye :p :brow: )

[Jay]

...defective carburettor. He tried to cool himself with a bath,...

W.Somerset Maugham, The Narrow Corner

[nome1486]

"shut the wardrobe door tightly behind her and looked"

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; C.S. Lewis


"two singles, if I owe you more let me know."

84 Charing Cross Road; Helene Hanff

[nome1486]

I like this one:

"CERTAINLY. MUSTN'T WASTE TIME!" Death adjusted"

Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett

Intriguing, no? ;)

[Max Whittaker]

"...The New York was allowed to drift further. It..."

Titanic: The Long Night, by Diane Hoh.


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...moonlight on his cheekbones and on the frowning...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

[Isagel]

"isn´t safety, either. It is just routine. Routine is not normality. You´re..."

Holy Fire, by Bruce Sterling

[Kiwi Shelf]

"...the car door. Red and black blobs floated through her sight,"

-Witchlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley

[Liina]

siis voodis pikutasid, ütles naine talle ikka ühte ja sama:

Robert James Waller "The Bridges of the Madison County" (translation into estonian)

[Taliesin]

..."creatures came rustling and squirming up out of the mulch...."
Tad Williams, "Otherland (Vol4. "Sea of SIlver Light")"

[durbin]

..."worst nightmare. Consider: the guests never leave ..."
Yann Martel, Life of Pi

[Dyrwen]

there been any recent responses to our invitation?"

Admiral Thrawn, in Star Wars: Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn

[Jay]

'It's about you.'

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

[Helga]

'a brilliant perception, one that he could use im-'

Woody Allen- Side Effects

[mono]

". . . she no longer thought of herself as a woman, nothing mattered . . ."

The Black Sheep by Honoré de Balzac

[Shea]

Lasalle, of manufacturers like Premieres, and to pottery

The Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo

[Stanislaw]

was so capricious and smelly, however, that it merely added

-Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

[baddad]

...so often in the past, to be master of intransigence.

Affairs of State......Tony Macaulay.

[monaliza]

i liked this game Koa :thumbs_up ........
"That thus so madly thou didst answer me?"
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare

[shortysweetp]

with a sticky mess of fruit. His trousers had been lowered
The Lord Of The Flies- William Golding

[mono]

"Denying abstract or Platonic 'reality' (singular) to social scientists of this school recognize only social realities (plural)."

Quantam Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson

[Snukes]

"'When?," considers the human experience of time and its"

Archaeology: Theory and Practice by Renfrew and Bahn :)

[mono]

"When I grin, the stitches tauten. I grow backward. I'm twenty, . . ."

Sylvia Plath
Crossing the Water

[CarniFreak]

"...the diary open on the table. DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER was..."
George Orwell
1984

[Helga]

then, but I had a nasty mouth- You getting all this?

this is the book ' Death can be beautiful ' short stories picked by Alfred Hitchcock

[mono]

". . . but the pathology, advancing - advancing towards a profound visual agnosia . . ."

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

[durga]

You wait, I'll tell your father how you ride.

And quiet flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov

[Psyche]

Small Claims Case Information

~Verizon Superpages Portland and Vancouver Metropolitan Area

...it was the first one I saw!

[hilrocks09]

Hey guys, have we seem to have got fond of games, here's another pointless one I stole from another forum cos I thought you'd all love it (and it'll probably take less than 5 minutes to take it totally off-topic...but then it's easy to come back :D)

Here's how it works:

Grab a book and open it on page 17, count, from bottom up, 5 lines and write the fifth line down here.

...and as I'm here, I'll start:
there is a great difference between walking the deck and remain-
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

:banana: :brow:
he had made a fool of her in front of me, and clung to it grimly
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

has anyone read this book before?if u have is it any good?

[hilrocks09]

hey have u read rebecca?

[Jack_Aubrey]

down the tank, one after another, and crashed against the artificial shore. Michael Chrichton: State of Fear.

I swear it isn't mine.

[Helga]

said, he had got "word not to send......

[Monica]

Faustus: Thankes Mephostophilis, yet faine would I have a booke


Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

[mono]

". . . within the eyes is dimly heard . . ."

e.e. cummings: Poems 1923-1954

[R. Schmidt]

"[. . .] refuse information to a man who was holding one's penis [. . .]"

Emma Donoghue, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits

[volvoreta]

passato che hai perduto
Umberto Eco, Baudolino

[Zippy]

"...who I had the misfortune to smile at last time I was on hell desk duty..."
The Atrocity Archive, Charles Stross.

I wonder if authors would make their page 17s more interesting if they knew about this game?

[volvoreta]

Probably
Talking of atrocity, that sentence sounds atrocious. What type of book is it?

[adilyoussef]

"...as big as carriagelamps? Theysaid it was the ghost of a murderer." James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

[Nocturnal]

"Ugo. "Kill him when you catch him, which you soon will, I am"

Zastrozzi, Percy B. Shelley

[Kaltrina]

...bedstead. "And we'll all go and see her when Tess has gone lo live with..."
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

it's a lovely game btw... :)

[Nocturnal]

"the Brown House by the people of the locality. He was"

Jude the obscure, Thomas Hardy

[Nightshade]

"once you feel happy with your tape-recorded version, play it back"

Of mice and men by John steinback (the longman Gcse study edition)

[Nocturnal]

"He looked up for Doctor Dohmler's patriotic approval. 'And "

Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Nightshade]

"path until they came to the part of the wood they"

The enchanted wood by enid blyton

[Nocturnal]

"24.I am thinking in particular of three books that appeared during the course of"

Character: Acting and Being on the Pre-Modern Stage by Edward Burns

[Rachy]

moment later, however, the figure produced a blade
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown

[Nightshade]

"to forstall their badly disguised hostility by suggesting that"
Overcoming Dyslexia; A straightforward guide for families and teachers, Dr B. Hornsby

[cruciverbalist]

"armour: but it would have made one laugh to have seen him eat; for,"

Don Quixote, Cervantes

[shortysweetp]

". . system hard to predict."
The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change
by Paul Adrew Mayewski and Frank White

[Kaltrina]

"...directing peopleto our village - a direction which they never accepted,..."

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

[Shakira]

"the heart of one, which is saying neither more nor less than that he has a beautiful face, informed with rich"

Romola - George Eliot.

[Pensive]

Interesting Game

... saw a new girl in the garden - a lovely blue-eyed creature ...
- -The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.

[Shannanigan]

"lately, which rubbed off on me because I was way too intimate"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams

[RJbibliophil]

"Hink til Jotunheimen, din skabbete varg!" roper Frøya. "Søk
Litteratur for Undomstrinet - variety of authors


Sorry, grabed closest book at hand, which happened to be a school literature textbook. Oh well if no one can understand it.

[Themis]

" ... prescribe coercion to enforce conformity with the norms of those with dominant ..."
- Principles of Criminal Law, Andrew Ashworth

[Petrarch's Love]

"Strong Masc.: -dom, -els, agent nouns in -end and -ere, -had, concrete..."

A Guide to Old English

[smilingtearz]

You have projected the role of parent onto God..
Conversations with God

[AimusSage]

"armed on three full decks with smooth bore, muzzle loading cannon that were"

Anatomy of the ship: The 100 Gun ship Victory, John Mckay.

[kathycf]

grabbed the first one of the top of the pile next to my chair...

"Never question the ways of the Lord"
Elmer Gantry ~ Sinclair Lewis

[Weeping Willow]

"on the line again, I said, "This is Los Angeles corre-"

William Golding - The Princess Bride.

[RJbibliophil]

One final area stimulated by success has to be wrestled with, and it's
Foxfire 3 - edited by Eliot Wigginton

grabbed a random book of my parents bookshelf... have never read it myself, did not know what the Foxfire books were till a few days ago...

[Shakira]

"much ado to bring him back to life; but at last they did, and brought him home, where he was in a few hours well"

Oroonoko - Aphra Behn.

[ShoutGrace]

" . . . denly he felt that all the struggle of mankind was a mockery."

[vrianto3]

"Prince Vasili smiled."
War and Peace

[ShoutGrace]

" . . . change in the overall way people think and view . . ."

[Shakira]

"her lap, and she was lazily unravelling their fringes. "Blue and white!" she remembered.

Zuleika Dobson.

[ShoutGrace]

"Black's Queen is sidelined on A6, and his King is floating around in the center. The Bishop on C4 is obvi . . ."

[Shakira]

“He wouldn’t be bothered with more?” This squared well enough with my impressions of him: he was not".

The Turn of the Screw.

[Petrarch's Love]

"One task more declined, one more footpath untrod."
From The Essential Browning

[RJbibliophil]

"parents to plan your school calendar and"

Home School, High School and Beyond - Beverly Adams-Gordon

[Shakira]

"She directed their course back to the library while the visitor continued to look about her. “You seem to have..." - The Portrait of a Lady.

[Petrarch's Love]

"Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

[Virgil]

"And how the winged sandals dart," Selected Poems and Two Play of William Butler Yeats [BTW, the name of the poem is "The Two Trees"]

[Schokokeks]

" The island is circular, and inhabited by very tall, beautiful ..."

from Utopia by Thomas Morus

[Shakira]

"another. I wonder whether anyone else saw that hand and arm, or only you and I. I should like to think..."

Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope.

[RJbibliophil]

'O, please let me,' said the Mole. So, of course, the

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

[kathycf]

...within the the entrance. His eyes opened to their fullest extent as...
The Secret Adversary ~ Agatha Christie

[Shakira]

"Then Dudley went a step too far."

Winding Paths - Gertrude Page.

[Petrarch's Love]

"a simile: 'As once the goddess Cytherea came / To find Adonis" From the introduction to The Oxford Shakespeare Complete Sonnets and Poems

[Shakira]

"(which it seems was the sign of the inn). "

Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding.

[Petrarch's Love]

"is symptomatic of this double ambition. An inscription on his"

Leon Battista Alberti's On Painting

[Shakira]

"Felicite's fever grew worse. She was sorry that she could not do anything for the altar."
A Simple Soul - Gustave Flaubert.

[Petrarch's Love]

"all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creping thing" ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

[RJbibliophil]

and the N.A.A.C.P., who didn't even know that the Su-

Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank

[Petrarch's Love]

"the actual bloodstained clothes he had worn during the unsuccessful attempt on his life in the Pazzi Conspiracy of"
~ Art in Renaissance Italy

[RJbibliophil]

"-Syn.2. beautify; deck, bedeck. | guilty of adultery. -a•dul•ter•ess (ə dŭl′tər ǐs "


The American College Dictionary - Harper

[Petrarch's Love]

"in inches (with centimeters in parentheses) from bill tip to tail tip" ~ Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds

[Shakira]

"You are losing your watch," said his mother, kissing him.

Ursula - Honore De Balzac

[WhimsySA]

"The queen was like some terribly beautiful bird whose language"

The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale

[Virgil]

I have to go to page 19 because 17 & 18 start a new chapter and have nothing but a chapter title on it.

"...native Americanisms as well as by adapting imported Briticisms;"
-English American Style: How Americans Invented Themselves and Their Language by Jeffrey McQuain

[Shakira]

"There was a little door in it, which opened on their ringing; and a clumsy,. . . "

Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham

[WhimsySA]

'that guy in the woods was starting to seem like it wasn't ...'

Avalon High - Meg Cabot

[cruciverbalist]

"...and realized what it meant and began to scream, screaming and kicking..."

Absalom, Absalom! -- William Faulkner

[WhimsySA]

"... moved into the open, they have been wreaking havoc. The ..."

Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling (but of course you all know that)

[NEDJ293]

"¿Donde habeis enterrado el pobre cuerpo?- pregunto Guillermo."
El nombre de la rosa -Umberto Eco (The name of the Rose)

[WhimsySA]

"... out with a glass serving platter full of pastries."

Olivia Kidney by Ellen Potter

[Shakira]

"..."But wait a bit," the Oysters cried, "Before we have our chat;..."
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll.

[ShoutGrace]

"What admirable politeness, which only suceeds in changing the meaning of words so that every word is a command! For my own part, I would rather Emile were rude than arrogant, that he should say 'Do this' as a request, rather than 'Please' as a command."

----- Jean Jacques Rosseau, Emile

[cuppajoe_9]

"And if you do this, both I and my sons will have received justice at your hands."

Philosophy : The Quest for Truth by Louis P. Pojman (my philosophy textbook). That particular sentence is an excerpt from Plato's Apology.

[cuppajoe_9]

Sure, I'll do two in a row.

"Meanwhile, in the world of text messages, ignorance of grammar and puntuation obiously doesn't affect a person's ability to communicate messages such as 'C U later.'"

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss. A good read for all you grammar and punctuation freaks on LitNet (and I know you are many).

[Shalot]

So everytime anybody said anything, which was constantly, poor Robert laid down his fork, swallowed, and looked up with courteous and undivided attention, while we gobbled and babbled on.

the wave in the mind: talks and essays on the writer, the reader, and the imagination

Ursula K. Le Guin

[aeroport]

I will add that Ivan Fyodorovich seemed at the time to be a mediator and

Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[Shalot]

AND AS GOD ASKED ABRAHAM TO SHOW ISAAC THE KNIFE'S POINT, SO IS HE ASKING US NOT TO SCRATCH OUR ASSES!

Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

[cruciverbalist]

Stephen thought what could be the answer and then said:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

[Shalot]

...memories appear like isolated trees....the kind that

On Writing by Stephen King