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Friday, May 13, 2005

On the spur of the moment: Fun Book Task!

Book task

It is late already on a Friday night
It is dark outside (yet hot like a microwave oven right after you use it to re-heat some leftover lunch. OH Come ON!! Do not tell me it is only me doing it, ok!?)
Procrastinating for a second and totally soaked in that inertia that makes you still stay on-line and browse for whatever
I do not know how I ended up on Milan’s blog and I found one posting I LOVED. I will edit it a bit and copy it into my blog (thanks Milan for the inspiration)

Interesting Exercise
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 23
3. Find the fifth line counting from the top
4. Post it as a comment to this blog (it does not matter if it is incomplete, just copy the fifth line of the page 23)

Surprise us!

posted by iGnacio at Friday, May 13, 2005

19 Comments:

  • ACTIVATING LEADERSHIP or "leading by example, so here it goes.

    BOOK: The Da Vinci Code
    AUTHOR: Dan Brown

    5th LINE: "If Boston Magazine could see me now"

    By Blogger Nacho, at May 13, 2005 10:49 PM  

  • I have even two here:

    'amygdala to propel us to action in emergencies, vital moments before the'

    Emotional Intelligence
    Daniel Goleman


    'Some weeks later we ventured into the courtyard of his'

    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    Dai Sijie

    Oh holy Friday night randomness..

    By Blogger triin 德琳, at May 13, 2005 11:50 PM  

  • "there wasn't as much as a breeze on his face, and he felt no fear"

    The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
    Mitch Albom

    By Blogger Celine, at May 14, 2005 12:17 AM  

  • "disembarked at a green-roofed building which looked like a"

    Wild Swan
    Jung Chang


    (hmmm what can it look like??)

    By Blogger Yat Wan, at May 14, 2005 4:07 AM  

  • 'Safety and Security practice, in response to emerging worldwide security issues'

    TOP 25 Technology Consulting Firm
    Vault Career Library

    ps: that was on the the 1st firm, IBM

    By Blogger fida, at May 14, 2005 9:55 AM  

  • "herself, went into her brodcast radius, caught"

    Book: Death of an ordinary man
    Author: Glen Duncan

    doesn't make much sense huh? =)

    By Blogger Sharon, at May 14, 2005 11:44 PM  

  • WAH! The things people read! Who else, who else!?

    By Blogger Nacho, at May 15, 2005 3:43 PM  

  • wow an Ang Mo with specs, very intelligent looking.... :P

    disclaimer:book nearest me doesnt mean i am reading it
    "domain of King Prasena Ajita and contained a particularly beautiful site"

    from The Diamond Cutter- The Buddha on Managing your business and your life :)

    By Blogger Ying, at May 15, 2005 7:05 PM  

  • nearest book to me is my little sister's French-English Dictionary (that's a book, right?)

    5th line of the Collins Robert Concise French Dictionary: ANTIJEU: "to be unsporting or unsportsmanlike"

    By Blogger Melissa, at May 15, 2005 9:18 PM  

  • Book: C++ Builder 6
    "Every time I compile an application, my form has the name Form1. How do I..."
    Nacho, are you doing "follow-the-crowd test or who-reads-what test? Or just plan B? :D

    By Blogger Aibek D., at May 16, 2005 1:47 PM  

  • Book: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
    Author: Gil Courtemanche

    5th line: "honour to a loving father, but one whose full complexity"

    hm... the book is more interesting than the 5th line of its 23rd page :-D

    By Blogger sarita, at May 16, 2005 3:20 PM  

  • "tests that involve physical interaction, such as swiping a card through a"

    Book: Software Test Automation (It's a page turner, a must read :))
    Author: The renowned Mark Fewster

    By Blogger ripov_artist, at May 16, 2005 4:32 PM  

  • book: KJV bible
    author: um God

    5th line: "Wherefore he called that place Be'er-she'ba; because there they sware both of them."
    (Genesis 21:31)

    Book 2: Who Moved my Ceese
    Author: Dr Spencer Johnson

    5th line: "They either knew the lessons and were already living them, or more commonly, they thought they already knew everything and didn't want to learn"

    ...Nacho maybe you could link all the 5th lines together to write a new story? (next random friday evening perhaps) hehe

    By Blogger Tee, at May 16, 2005 11:36 PM  

  • WAH! It is interesting to see what people read nowadays! :)

    I have another book by my side now... I am at the office though:

    BOOK: Little Book of FENG SHUI at work
    AUTHOR: Lillian Too
    5TH LINE:"read my next blog"

    By Blogger Nacho, at May 17, 2005 9:40 PM  

  • 'monitored in 1918. Around 450,000 hectares'

    Lonely Planet Philippines. Hmmm...I had to go to the bookshelf and get that...let's try another...

    'lived and worked on the street for generations. However, the'

    Reaching Children in Need, Patrick McDonald.

    Well, that made more sense. Much like this random commentary;)

    By Blogger Jessica, at May 18, 2005 5:10 AM  

  • "YOU RUINED MY LIFE YOU STUPID UGLY WITCH!!!"

    oh, sorry I didn't read the instructions clearly, I thought the exercise was make a comment to our wife. No? My bad.

    I could write a book though. :)

    By Blogger Devrim, at May 18, 2005 7:35 PM  

  • Ok here goes:

    Book: A People's History of the United States
    Author: Howard Zinn

    5th Line: "ship of mystery. Whether she was trader, privateer, or man-of-war no one"

    By Anonymous Mike, at May 20, 2005 11:19 PM  

  • ...press an urge to throw himself in front of it but because...

    Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life


    ...bourgeois bitch. Now, you gotta stepaside and watch the big dog...

    Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
    Tom Robbins

    By Anonymous cotu, at May 30, 2005 10:27 PM  

  • "During the Cold War, the unique American approach to foreign policy..."

    Diplomacy
    Henry Kissinger

    still having a unique approach to many things...

    By Anonymous Bohunka, at June 01, 2005 1:39 AM  

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