Round 3 scores, Round 4 vote, Round 5 line
Scores:
megolas -- He noticed the blood first, tiny droplets leading him toward the huddled shape on the pavement.
Voted for by offensive_mango.
inuitmonster -- He usually ignored beggers.
a_d_medievalist -- "make sure you're home on time, Richard," said Victoria wearily.
wwhyte -- No need to take the Tube home, it was a lovely evening.
raycun -- "Of course I've confirmed the restaurant, darling", Richard lied.
Voted for by a_d_medievalist.
alextiefling -- Richard looked up from the files on his desk and out at the London skyline.
jeffr23 -- Richard Mayhew couldn't understand why nobody else seemed to see the girl.
elcanguro -- Richard Mayhew shared with most Londoners the sixth sense which enabled him to avoid striking obstacles on even the most crowded of sidewalks. Voted for by jeffr23 and wirette. Comments: "very convincing!" "Sidewalks??"
stellanova -- Richard Mayhew was not having a very good day.
Voted for by raycun.
Neil Gaiman - She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.
Voted for by wwhyte, megolas, sammywol, stellanova and leedy.
wirette -- The day my life changed should have been a day like any other - except it wasn't.
Comments: "The fact that 11 is in the first person may be a sign that only one person has read this book... I hope not."
leedy -- There are silent places beneath London, and not-so-silent. Voted for by elcanguro.
Points for getting the right line: 1 each for wwhyte, megolas, sammywol, stellanova and leedy
Points for people voting for your line: 1 each for megolas, raycun, stellanova and leedy, 2 for elcanguro
stellanova: 5 + 1 + 1 = 7
alextiefling: 6 + 0 + 0 = 6
megolas: 2 + 1 + 1 = 4
elcanguro: 1 + 2 + 0 = 3
wwhyte: 2 + 0 + 1 = 3
leedy: 0 + 1 + 1 = 2
wirette: 2 + 0 + 0 = 2
raycun: 0 + 1 + 0 = 1
sammywol: 0 + 0 + 1 = 1
a_d_medievalist: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
jeffr23: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
inuitmonster: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
Now the lines for A Short History of Nearly Everything:
- Here's a funny thing about time: there's an awful lot of it.
- In the beginning...but I get ahead of my self here: how is it that we know that the universe- existance, time, whatever- has a beginning, as opposed to having always been?
- In the beginning, everything already was.
- In the beginning, nothing much happened.
- It's hard to imagine all the matter in the universe in one place, at one time.
- It's hard to imagine how big space is, so try this to start with: if you were to talk to the Moon, our nearest neighbour, at a speed of three miles an hour, it would take you just over 250 years to get there.
- Most people think that the history of this planet we call Earth started with the Big Bang.
- No matter how hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton.
- Richard Feynman famously said, "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts".
- The trick to building a universe is to start out really small.
- The Universe, generally, is big.
- When I was in fourth grade, I had the best teacher in the world.
And finally the last book of the game: This is REFORMATION: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700, by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Movie trailer voice:
At a time when men and women were prepared to kill -- and be killed -- for their faith, the Reformation tore the western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars and politicians, from the zealous Luther to the radical Loyola, from the tortured Cranmer to the ambitious Philip II.
Weaving together the many strands of Reformation and Counter-Reformation, ranging widely across Europe and even to the New World, MacCulloch, played mesmerisingly by Ralph Fiennes, also reveals as never before how these upheavals affected everyday lives -- overturning ideas of love, sex, death and the supernatural, and shaping the modern age.
(I added a bit)
You're looking for Part I (A Common Culture), Chapter I (The Old Church 1490-1517), first line.
Poll Round 4 vote, Round 5 line
Deadline for this is Friday evening (though in this case quite early on Saturday will probably be safe).