I think you know all of the rules.

[dejana]

Stolen from wombat_socho. Looks like fun. Modified it a little since it wasn't put together well.

1. Grab the nearest book. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
That would be "The Prestige" by Christopher Priest, thanks to sache. I also blame her for the $50+ worth of manga I also ended up carrying out of B&N with me. But that's another story.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog.
The part of it in which I live is the wing where I grew up. [3] If there had been any preparations for the visit, Rosalie and I were not told what they were. The first we knew about it was when a car arrived at the main gate and Stimpson went down to let it in.

Wow, that was boring. Kinda like this book.

Comments

[dejana.livejournal.com]

Reading the book is a lesson in why it took 10 years for it to become a movie. There's good stuff in there, but the style is not exactly engrossing. If it weren't for the movie, I'd be a) hopelessly confused and b) bored out of my gourd 90% of the time.

Manga... hmm, what *did* I end up buying? Chibi Vampire #3, Angelic Days #3, Trigun #9 and #10 I believe, and umm... something else that's not coming to mind at the moment. I wanted to start Death Note and Someday's Dreamers, but B&N didn't have them. To the hometown alternate chain store!

[dejana.livejournal.com]

Hah, I also bought "The Little Book of Plagiarism." It was sitting on a display table and I just couldn't resist.

[sache.livejournal.com]

HAH. Okay, "The Little Book of Plagiarism" just sounds like it's all sorts of wonderful.

And Good luck on the Death Note hunt. It's a really popular series, so I'm imagining that your B&N was just *really* sold out. (You've reminded me, though, that I've earned a personal shopping day at the local Waldenbooks. *_* Joy.)

[dejana.livejournal.com]

It's a little study on the practice of borrowing from fellow writers and determining where the line of plagiarism is drawn, I believe. I'm looking forward to diving into it once I finish ploughing through "The Prestige."

And ack! If there's no Death Note in that bookstore when I get to my hometown mall later this week, I'm going to kick myself for not buying it last month when I was there. ;_;