Book meme

[joelasutherland]

(And the first meme I've ever done -- I don't even know what "meme" technically means!)

Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"While the National Front

Comments

[mylefteye]

The closest book to hand is The Max by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr. And the fifth sentence of page 56 is:

He did.

Sometimes these memes don't work so well.

[joelasutherland]

That was certainly a miss.

[hfgibbard]

"But if he lived on the surface of ordinary life, his life was not ordinary." John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest Plague in History

Honestly, that's what the nearest book said on that page & line, talking about a rather eccentric nineteenth-century doctor at Johns Hopkins.

Cool idea, Joel.

[joelasutherland]

Now that's a cool quote!