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Amusing book meme robbed from various people.
Instructions:
1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book 1: first sentence
3. Book 2: last sentence on page 50
4. Book 3: second sentence on page 100
5. Book 4: next to the last sentence on page 150
6. Book 5: final sentence of the book
7. Arrange the five sentences to form a paragraph.
Results:
This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history. If this is any indication of how impractical Gingrich’s ideas are, imagine what a mess welfare reform is going to be. They are coming; let ye mind me now! Delicious cakes I must say, Auntie Miriam. And with two final flourishes of the blade, the legs were expertly detached from the hips, thereby reducing what was once a man to nothing more than a torso, a decapitated head and a collection of limbs, all weltering in a mass of blood-soaked flesh.
Sources:
The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and other Observations, by Al Franken
The Burning of Bridget Cleary - A True Story, by Angela Bourke
The Very Best of Monty Python
Execution - A Guide to the Ultimate Penalty, by Geoffrey Abbot
-^)--)~
Instructions:
1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book 1: first sentence
3. Book 2: last sentence on page 50
4. Book 3: second sentence on page 100
5. Book 4: next to the last sentence on page 150
6. Book 5: final sentence of the book
7. Arrange the five sentences to form a paragraph.
Results:
This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history. If this is any indication of how impractical Gingrich’s ideas are, imagine what a mess welfare reform is going to be. They are coming; let ye mind me now! Delicious cakes I must say, Auntie Miriam. And with two final flourishes of the blade, the legs were expertly detached from the hips, thereby reducing what was once a man to nothing more than a torso, a decapitated head and a collection of limbs, all weltering in a mass of blood-soaked flesh.
Sources:
The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and other Observations, by Al Franken
The Burning of Bridget Cleary - A True Story, by Angela Bourke
The Very Best of Monty Python
Execution - A Guide to the Ultimate Penalty, by Geoffrey Abbot
-^)--)~