Yeah, fool! I got meme'd

I love these. From Alice at the fairfax:

1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

So here goes. (Clears throat) Ahem...

A universal groan. No rest now. The rattle of the rails being dropped, a general cursing. Chamberlain reformed the regiment out in the road. Dispatch from Vincent: Move out.

That would be from Michael Shaara's timeless The Killer Angels. I'm ashamed to say I've never finished it, but I'm trying to work through it once again.

Or how about this?

This the real problem of the global-warming argument - it means well, but by almost expropriating the public agenda, trying to address the hardest problem, with the highest price tag and the least chance of success, it leaves little space, attention and money for smarter and more realistic solutions.

That's from Bjorn Lomborg's Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming . I know that's only one sentence, but he goes into a long bunch of statistics right after. Amazingly though, I think that one randomly selected sentence pretty well sums up the gist of the book.

OK, so whom do I tag?
Randy is the guy I always ask what he's currently reading.
Traci is feeling guilty for not reading unChristian, so her book has gotta be good.
Patrick is always suggesting cool reads.
Dennis should bring some Canadian flair (no Rush biographies please!).
Let's see what Adam's up to.
And, to go out on a limb, Steven James is an author. Maybe he can read us page 123 from his new book or something...

Comments

[Traci]

I'm in.

http://haystacks.typepad.com/haystacks/2008/01/ive-been-tagged.html

I believe the 3 sentences following the first 5 sentences on page 123 were the longest sentences in my books! I also posted from 2 books, since I'm reading 2 books.

And while I'm here, I'll mention that Neil Gaiman, author of too many wonderful things to list, has a blog, too.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/

[Dennis]

Tag received - and responded to. I cheated a little and included 2 books - since you were looking for a little Canadiana...

http://www.speakergeek.com/archives/2008/january/tagimit

[patrickwitherow]

Thanks for the tag - I need to spruce up my blog a bit.

[Sam]

haha i was supposed to read Killer Angels for my AP U.S. History class last semester. of course i never did, but i managed to pull a B on the test. Sparknotes is gettingme through high school. haha kidding.

[adam riggins]

That's pretty awesome. By the way, I will tell you what I am up to. I am eagerly awaiting the return of LOST on Thursday. If you haven;t checked this out yet, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ILPnh4mOKo

Someone did some awesome editing there!