Grab the book nearest you. Right now.

This is going to be embarrassing to admit that the book was close to hand.

“I want to invite all the Zelandonii who have come from neighboring Caves to join the Ninth Cave in the feast we have prepared to welcome Jondalar and Ayla home.”

From The Shelters of Stone, by Jean Auel.

reaching into the “to be read” basket… don’t even have to get out of the seat.

“less than halfway through the trip, the young dandy’s thoughts were clearly racing eastward.”

“the rise of theodore roosevelt” edmund morris

“We’re missionaries, dedicated to converting others to what we believe to be the true religion.”

The very next sentence would have been a dead giveaway. It’s fiction, BTW.

“These programmer types seemed to be all the same - thinking everyone else in the world was a dickhead and that wearing your company badge hitched to the belt of your too tight jeans was cool.”

A Year in the Merde, Stephen Clarke

“In terms of the local economy in Ixtlan, other improvements were just as important as a railroad.”

– Patrick McNamara, Sons of the Sierra: Juarez, Diaz, & the People of Ixtlan, Oaxaca, 1855-1920

For all i such that 0 ≤ i < N - d and i & p = r, do step M4.

From The Art of Computer Programming. VOLUME 3; Sorting and Searching, Second Edition
Donald E. Knuth

Such a shame I just stacked all my fiction and cook books back in the slightly further off book shelf.

“Click on synchronize when you are ready to apply the metadata to your images.”
The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook, by Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer

Pour the hot oil into the batter, stirring just a little, and then pour the batter onto the hot pan.

New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Katzen

“Superheroes are awesome.”

The Love We Share Without Knowing, Christopher Barzak

Wait, you mean nobody is supposed to guess what the book is? Then what is it doing in the Game Room?

“Too late to start over again.” From The Portable Henry Rollins.

“That’s why I waited for things to get as bad as they did before I sent them in.”

Captain’s Fury
Jim Butcher

I was thinking that it might be interesting to just string all the sentences together, or try to make a story out of them after a certain number of sentences.

:eek:

I um…need to read that, apparantly, as I think I dated those engineers for quite a while! :stuck_out_tongue:

Ulysses room Inv 2884A show a mosaic of Ulysses bound to the mast of his ship and heroically resisting the calls of three sirens.
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The Rough Guide to Tunisia*

Well, closest book is National Anthems of the World, 11th edition by Michael Jamieson Bristow, so most of the pages don’t have complete sentences as most of the pages are sheet music. The complete words on page 111 (not counting the sheet music it’s printed in) is:

(This is page 2 of the sheet music for the national anthem of Cameroon for the curious)

So … yeah, some books just don’t fit this.

The dragging made Polly’s head sore.

Hexwood
Diana Wynne Jones

“Chiropractic care for the whole family”

Yellowbook Phone Directory for my region

My nearest book only had 4 sentences on page 111. So here’s the fourth.

“Output from the PSTIPPLE program.”
OpenGL SuperBible Fourth Edition.

The rest of the page is code snippets and a picture

Bah, not Hexwood. Fire and Hemlock. Same author.

I always get those 2 titles mixed up.