What's the first line on the 46th page of the book closest you?

[Civi]

[Birdhead]

Sentence, I think. I've read that book... it's good.
T

Tuibird in Aotearoa
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Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
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Spelling Freak and Typo Queen

[KizzyShima]

Normally the first book by me would be a English-Japanese dictionary... But it isn't right now.

..."who is dead, however, can go on living in spirit."

City Of The Beasts, by Isabel Allende

~!~!~!~!~!~!~
PART OF THE PROBLEM, Nita thought as she tore desperately down Rose Avenue, is that I can't keep my mouth shut.
-Diane Duane, So You Want To Be A Wizard

[meteorite]

What could he answer? he wondered. How explain when people taxed him with brutal foolishness? Who might understand?

Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

[crookedfrog13]

Man, your asking me to choose my favorite book?
arggg....the pain..
There are so many...i bet it is an awsome thing to do....maybe i will try it with a couple of my most favorites....i connot be forcved to choose.
sorry.

Dai
Aundrea of The Dirty Rotten City
I Wear My Suglasses at Night
Now aren't you happy that you read this?

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When we first practice to decieve!"
-Sir Walter Scott

No, it's just whichever one's closest to you.

At the moment the book closest to me is John Le Carre's "The Constant Gardener", and page 46 starts with...

The family arose early as usual, but Justin was ahead of them, dressed in his crushed suit and hovering.

Okay, so it could've been a bit more random, but you get the idea.

[Rysade]

I always check page 46, thanks to this thread...

Since the books here have been recirculated, I may now participate once again in this little game...

Gold, Issac Asimov:

"


"

That's what it says! I swear! Nothing at all.

On page 45, the last sentence is (and I kid you not):

"I want to be a writer"

[crookedfrog13]

Rysade: Are you talking about Asimov's
"History of I-Botics: And Illustrated Novel" ?
I have that. it is pretty weird, butinteresting. But hey. Its Asimov. What can you expect. I may be wrong though, I mean about you having the same book, becasue I looked at page 46 and it didn't begin like this:

"

"

So, maybe I am totally off base. Who knows?

Dai
Aundrea of The Dirty Rotten City
I Wear My Suglasses at Night
Now aren't you happy that you read this?

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When we first practice to decieve!"
-Sir Walter Scott

[Rysade]

Oh, no. The book is Definitely titled "Gold."

The back's first paragraph is:

Gold is Issac Asimov's first original collection of science fiction in over a decade. It is also his last science ficion collection, one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that have never before appeared in book form.

If you like Asimov, you'll love this book, I guarantee it. It also has essays of his on Science Fiction and writing in general. All in all, I think it's spectacular. In fact, I'm considering rereading it, but I have other things to do:

I'm rereading DD's stuff pretty fast now, I noticed. I finished HW in about 4-6 hours. Not really sure how long. Page 46:

. . . Your head that they were utterly stupid things, unable to do anything you didn't tell them how to do, in language they understood.

Yeah. I probably should have tried to finish Mary Doria Russel's The Sparrow, which was what I was reading up till that point. Page 46:

Finished at Number 5, John Candotti stood by the front door with his umbrella at the ready, irrationally irritated that the weather had been so bad for so long.

The Sparrow is a weird one. It's about Jesuits going to Proxima Centauri. Heh. Reminds me of Mel Brook's History of the World part II. Jews in Space!

As far as weirdness is concerned, I think I just finished a book that beats The Sparrow to a pulp, and that would have to be Garth Nix's Shade's Children, which is precisely my kind of book, the geurilla warfare, Matrix/Terminator type future. Page 46:

"Yes"?
"Rick's team has far better knowledge of the University and that area. Why not send them?"

Ender's Game meets The Matrix

[Birdhead]

Sparrow... I have to read that sometime...

Oh, my, I have only the most random books next to me, and even they're on the other side of the room,and they're my mother's: (she's writing an article at the moment, so her desk is buried even deeper than usual)

Harrap's Concise French-English/English-French Dictionary"bloc-notes, s.m. memo pad, writing pad; pl. blocs-notes

Maui: Legends of the Outcast, A Graphic Novel (Caption) "The party approached the sleeping form of the giant goddess of death at the rim of the earth."

Herschel on the Cape: Diaries and Correspondence of Sir John Herschel "Adapted the Prism Reflector of Fraunhofer (footnote 35) to the 5 feet Newtonian (Footnote 36), which produced a very great increase in light & is in every way a capital improvement."

BAD Astronomy"Another common idea is that the Sun looks yellow because we are comparing it to the blue sky."

Extreme Stars: At the Edge of Creation"The most obvious way a brown dwarf might reveal itself is by its mass."

OK, all of those are very, sincerely wierd indeed... Oh well.
T

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahahaha...
My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
Spelling Freak and Typo Queen

[crookedfrog13]

I am a fan of Asimov. I can't really say that I am a Asimov buff, perse, but i know w little about him...I also think he was defianatly a brilliant sci-fi artist.

I am RRRRREEEAAALLLYYY goning to have to try some of these books....they are all intereesting. Has anybody read a book called "Hexwood"? that is defianatly a good sci-fi read. I can't say i know that first line on the 46th page, i but i know it is RRREEEEAAAALLLLYYY good.
hummm.

CRUD-MONKEYS!!!!!!!!

I had to do that for Rysade. Plus, it brightened up the pot now, don't you think?

Dai
Aundrea of The Dirty Rotten City
I Wear My Suglasses at Night
Now aren't you happy that you read this?

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When we first practice to decieve!"
-Sir Walter Scott

[Quill]

I recently read The Sparrow, and while it is extremely well-written, it made me very unhappy. Though I suppose I should read the sequel.

Bad Astronomy, Birdhead? Hah! I know the guy who's written the next book in that series, Bad Weather. Unfortunately the publisher is apparently not going to publish it after all. I keep telling him he should take it to another publisher.


-- Dex Lives No, I'm not the author. I just think you should read it.--

[crookedfrog13]

What is the story line for "The Sparrow"?

Dai
Aundrea of The Dirty Rotten City
I Wear My Suglasses at Night
Now aren't you happy that you read this?

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When we first practice to decieve!"
-Sir Walter Scott

[Quill]

The Sparrow:
In the relatively new future, researchers pick up radio signals from a nearby star, ones that are transmitting breathtaking music. The Catholic Church, for reasons of its own, decides to fund the creation of a spaceship to travel to that world. The ship is crewed with a couple of Jesuit priests and some of their friends, all of whom are frighteningly intelligent. The book is less about the actual quest and the beings they find than it is about the nature of faith and the decisions people make about relationships. It's not an easy book.


-- Dex Lives No, I'm not the author. I just think you should read it.--

[bassethoundbeagle]

Yeah, isn't this ironic. " That other one _must_ be deaf not to hear Teleri yelling at him." Yes, that was the 46th page of SYWTBAW. by the way, I think I'll start this topic in another area...

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