# Grab the book nearest you. Right now. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 9, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901 "2010-03-09T20:52:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/221 "2010-03-17T00:08:58Z")
“We had spent two days in Monrovia, where Rev. and Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Morgan and her husband and daughter, and the two other officers of the American Army left us.” The Work and Witness of W. R. Morrison, B.A., B.D. 1879-1965, a vanity published biography by my great-aunt of my missionary great-grandfather. That sentence should get it flying off the shelves. ---
**Author:** ![Pseudocode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/59ef9b/32.png) [@Pseudocode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pseudocode)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/222 "2010-03-17T00:19:49Z")
“This program estimates his current belt size by projecting the trend observed during his public performances.” _Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases_ Joshua Bloch & Neal Gafter ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/223 "2010-03-17T01:39:35Z")
Dalgliesh said calmly: “But the investigation of murder — if this is murder — takes precedence.” _A Certain Justice_. P. D. James. ---
**Author:** ![Dosipede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/224 "2010-03-17T01:55:16Z")
“Looking back, they also served as a relief from the grinding daily pressure of expectations, particularly my own.” _Man in the Middle_, John Amaechi ---
**Author:** ![ExVoxMachina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@ExVoxMachina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExVoxMachina)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/225 "2010-03-17T03:45:57Z")
In **Canada** : one may write the director, trade practices branch, dept of consumer and corporate affairs, 219 Laurier ave. west Ottawa, Ontario. "The World Almanac & Book of Facts 1977. ---
**Author:** ![PopeJewish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@PopeJewish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PopeJewish)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/226 "2010-03-17T03:52:15Z")
It is a hospital New Horizon English Text Book, Year 1 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/227 "2010-03-18T00:36:38Z")
“The M component is defined by the absence or presence of distant spread or metastases, generally in locations to which the cancer spread [sic] by vascular channels, or by lymphatics beyond the nodes defined as regional.” _AJCC Cancer Staging Handbook 7th edition_, American Joint Committee on Cancer ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/228 "2010-03-18T00:45:57Z")
“I did not know whether he had just been born, or was just emerging, shedding his skin like a snake.” Death and the Dervish, M. Selimovic ---
**Author:** ![Piker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@Piker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Piker)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/229 "2010-03-18T06:39:00Z")
“Our main trading partner now has crippling hard-currency debts and a worthless ruble.” - **The Corrections** , _Jonathan Franzen_ ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/230 "2010-03-18T14:30:37Z")
“Why should I complain?” Hyacinth asked. The Princess Casamassima Henry James ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/231 "2010-03-18T18:10:13Z")
From under fifty thousand in 1850, the Mormon population of the United States expanded to 1.1 million in 1950 and 5 million in 2000.- American Theocracy:The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century-Kevin Phillips. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/232 "2010-03-18T18:14:31Z")
> [@CT\_Damsel](#): > > “Why should I complain?” Hyacinth asked. > The Princess Casamassima > Henry James That sentence was written by _Henry James_? Well, I’ll be. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/233 "2010-03-18T18:19:18Z")
“Emily scored 75, 85, 35, 85, 70, 10 on her first 6 math quizzes.” –Harcourt Math TE (Teacher’s Edition), Grade 6, Volume 1. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/234 "2010-03-18T18:19:55Z")
Because the book is 100 Selected Poems by e.e. cummings, there are few complete sentences, and certainly not 11. The 11th line of the poem on that page, though is: “made of nothing” ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/235 "2010-03-19T01:38:53Z")
The closest BOOK nearest me offers: “The teenie weenies sunday page by William Donahey. This band of little people who lived in a normal-sized world, was created exclusively for the Chicago Tribune in 1914. After Ten years, the full-page feature went into national syndication.” - 1916 Courtesy of Mark Johnson." That is all of the Text on page 111, as the rest of the page takes up the one panel comic of the “Teenie Weenies” boiling an egg. From The Comics – The Complete Collection By Brian Walker A Coffee Table book that chronicles the history of Comic strips, as seen in Newspapers. It sits opposite, and compliments my copy of “The Complete Front Pages” from The New York Times. A Coffee Table book that chronicles the History of the NYT, with Pages of Front Page reprints. DVD-rom is included for EVERY Front page the NYT ever printed. As I got the Book in 2008, it obviously doesn’t have 2009 or 2010 in the physical pages of the book. ---
**Author:** ![EastCoastPearl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aeb1de/32.png) [@EastCoastPearl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastCoastPearl)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/236 "2010-03-19T18:11:37Z")
“9. The woman whose shoes are adorned with artificial cherries and bananas (are, is) getting all the attention.” _When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English_ by Ann Batko ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/237 "2010-03-19T22:23:14Z")
I fail at this. Page 111 of the nearest book… [![](https://notails.com/book.jpg) ](https://notails.com/book.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/238 "2010-03-20T03:00:34Z")
“TEARS NEAR AS DANIEL O’REILLY IS HELD IN BAIL.” Reprint from the front page of the New York _Evening Telegram_ dated April 14, 1911 in Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century by Marc Okkonen. ---
**Author:** ![Daedelus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Daedelus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daedelus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/239 "2010-03-20T05:21:12Z")
I tried doing this with Freud’s _Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis_, but in the copy I have, the 111th page only has 10 sentences (he uses a lot of semicolons and is a windbag). So, I then reached for the next closest book, which was José Saramago’s _Seeing_. The 111th page only had 8 sentences, as he uses commas in place of periods throughout many of his dialogue sentences. I will try again some other time. ---
**Author:** ![KNO3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@KNO3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KNO3)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/240 "2010-03-20T06:30:46Z")
Find the ultimate dining experience in Luxury Life in the white pages. The Official Hawaiian Telcom Yellow Pages O’AHU 2007-2008. Huh. Gotta throw this one away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901.md?page=13)