# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/161 "2010-03-11T13:29:25Z")
“Whatever we have words for, that is already dead in our hearts.” _36 Arguments for the Existence of God_ Rebecca Newberger Goldstein This is actually from page 112. Page 111, while full of text only has 8 sentences, so I kept going until I got to 11. I’m actually disappointed in posting this sentence because the author writes long convoluted philosophical ramblings in the character of a pompous professor. I was hoping to get one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/162 "2010-03-11T14:49:38Z")
We were nearing the end of the sidewalk, and Robbie hoisted his bag higher in such a way that he could glance at the armed men behind us. White Witch, Black Witch by Kim Harrison. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/163 "2010-03-11T15:32:15Z")
Okay, third try (I’d forgotten about all the books under the bed): “Rock performers have featured in identical poses on countless other albums.” _Elvis Costello: God’s Comic_ by David Goldstone ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/164 "2010-03-11T19:07:52Z")
The man’s frown deepened as he seemed to consider this. “Life Sentence” by Kelley Armstrong from _The New Dead_, edited by Christopher Golden. ---
**Author:** ![arachnologus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@arachnologus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnologus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/165 "2010-03-12T08:13:00Z")
“A total of 308 caves are recorded, and a number of them are large.” The Invertebrate Cave Fauna of Virginia and a Part of Eastern Tennessee. By John R. Holsinger and David C. Culver. (Note, I had to cheat and go to page 112 because page 111 is a table with no sentences). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/166 "2010-03-12T08:24:36Z")
"Orville, the baby bird made a single appearence in a Pluto (38) short called _Pluto’s Fledgling_ in 1948.\* —_Walt Disney’s Animated Characters_, John Grant. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/167 "2010-03-12T08:42:20Z")
Instead of being cheered up by the “Get Well Soon” collage of nude polaroids of T, he demanded to know if we had a signed model release from her along with a photocopy of her driver’s license and an I-9 form confirming that she is a U.S. citizen. — _Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency_, by Al Franken ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/168 "2010-03-12T09:25:18Z")
‘To show their allegiance to the Legion, the high-borne aided their Queen in opening a great, swirling portal within the depths of the Well of Eternity.’ Warcraft III game manual. That’s one of the shortest sentences on the page. (Not actually the nearest book, but the nearest was a manga which only had one sentence on page 111.) ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/169 "2010-03-12T13:32:42Z")
He sat down beside her on the deep, cushioned windowledge. - _A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K leGuin_. First time I’ve read this in I can’t remember how long. So certainly more than five years. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/170 "2010-03-12T14:08:31Z")
Terman ran through every conceivable explanation. Which is kind of boring, so I won’t tell you the book or author and see if anyone can guess it. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/171 "2010-03-12T16:01:18Z")
In other words, those clever monks said, “The baby will be conceived between five and six A.M. on January 1, Rome time, but that will be between eleven and twelve A.M. in a city that does not yet exist, on a continent we have no knowledge of, assuming the world is round and there are different times in different places and it revolves around the sun, which of course it would be heresy to suggest.” Roger Ebert – _I Hated, Hated, HATED This Movie_ (The review was for _End Of Days_) Not the closest book, but since Sandra Boynton doesn’t write 111-page books, I went with the second-closest. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/172 "2010-03-12T16:05:44Z")
Melisandre lifted her hands above her head. - _A Clash of Kings_, George R.R. Martin. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/173 "2010-03-12T16:15:23Z")
“In Hithlum the Noldor have leave to dwell, and in the highlands of Dorthonion, and in the lands east of Doriath that are empty and wild; but elsewhere there are many of my people, and I would not have them restrained of their freedom, still less ousted from their homes.” I swear, I don’t ordinarily walk around with a copy of Tolkien’s Silmarillion in my laptop back. It’s just a freak occurrence. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/174 "2010-03-12T17:52:33Z")
“Substituting the identities E[X\_n]=1, E[X\_n^2]=2 in the preceding shows that E[S\_n]=n+(n^2)/2 and the induction proof is complete.” Introduction to Probability Models, Sheldon M. Ross. Page 111 didn’t have eleven sentences, so I kept going onto page 112. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/175 "2010-03-12T18:56:02Z")
“Italian merchants became the world’s most prosperous slave traders, buying humans on the eastern shores of the Black Sea and selling them in Egypt and the Levant.” _A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World,_ by William J. Berstein ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/176 "2010-03-12T19:02:12Z")
I am visiting one of our remote offices today, teaching sales reps how to sell a bit of technology. > [@](#): > > NOTE: When modifying more than one tab in the Groups section, you do not have to “Save Changes” on each tabbed section prior to moving to another tab. Random instruction manual for some software. ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/177 "2010-03-12T19:44:17Z")
“Find the Fourier cosine series of the function |sin x| in the interval (-π, π).” §5.1, problem 4 of Strauss’s _Partial Differential Equations_. I will probably fail this class! ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/178 "2010-03-12T19:44:36Z")
“Pay particular attention to the foreign key on the ManagerEmpID column.” Robert Vieira, _Professional SQL Server 2005 Programming_. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/179 "2010-03-12T22:02:38Z")
Once you clear the course by yourself, the ! will disappear. _Super Mario Bros. Wii Instruction Booklet._ (page 11.) ---
**Author:** ![Kelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@Kelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelby)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-the-book-nearest-you-right-now/531901/180 "2010-03-12T22:15:28Z")
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