Out of context...

[JoJo]

"From this argument the graptolites should have been bottom-dwelling colonial organisms, living by filtering small particles of food from the water".

Yay for non-fiction! (Currently at uni so I only have science books with me )

 

[elementsoul]

I have two books so here we go.

"HIDEOUSLY WRINKLED (stop) PLEASE HELP ME!(end)" From Fight Club.

"Andre was outside, in the open all alone. He turned to look up at the castle." From Rainbow Six.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

"The group name should be descriptive (for example, Accounting Data Users)."

Yeah, gotta love being in class...

 

[Thaius]

"It's going deeper and its getting harder, especially in a public setting."

My professor said this regarding the Social Penetration Theory of Communication, which states that people have layers of things that they are willing to share with others, and intimacy is achieved by penetrating said laters and getting down to the core of who someone is. But as you penetrate further, it gets more difficult to go any farther, because the information at that point is very personal and well guarded.

What did you think I was talking about?

EDIT: Confession: I picked it out. Still though, awesome.

 

[Count Igor]

+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Re-install Universe And Reboot +++

From Terry Pratchetts Hogfather.

Damn ninja's

OT: 'You'd just be stuck as an ugly, old, janitor-woman.'
'Hmm. That does poke a hole in it slightly.'

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

"I think you're right, Duke. You know, sometimes I kinda wish the Cold War would come back - for training purposes anyway."

Riiight. This is uncomfortable.

And the saddest part is, I think you might actually guess the writer.

"Andre was outside, in the open all alone. He turned to look up at the castle." From Rainbow Six.

Should've actually gone with Rainbow Six, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
So, imagine something about people getting shot in the head as my second book quote.

 

[BENZOOKA]

"Apply a drop of light machine oil onto the trimmer on a weekly basis"
What can I say. All the books I've got on the table (Jo Nesbø, Dan Brown, Tolkien's Silmarillion), at the moment are in Finnish, can't bother to translate. But I just bought a new beard trimmer.

 

[Kajt]

Nearest book: Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky.

"Dead drunk." Artyom muttered. "It's better not to touch him until tomorrow" And, rocking slightly, he plodded towards his tent.

That wasn't too bad.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

'Maynard caught up with Blackbeard in the small cove known as Teach's Hole on November 22nd, 1718.'

This is a bit from the book Badass, a book looking back on all of the badasses of history. The except is specifically from the chapter on Blackbeard. I am not a history nerd but out of context, you could assume I am from that quote I guess...or into pirates which I am not.

 

[Fraught]

Age UFOs, though; they'd listened politely to Adam on the subject, but somehow modern UFOs lacked punch.
'If I was an alien,' said Pepper, voicing the opinion of them all, 'I wouldn't go round telling people all about mystic cosmic harmony. I'd say,' her voice became hoarse and nasal, like someone hampered by an evil black mask, 'thish ish a lasher blashter, sho you do what you're told, rebel swine.'

Heh.

 

[the rye]

'It may expain part of the ancestry of Old comedy,but more is needed.'

from A guide to ancient greek drama.
It was the nearest book to me.

 

[Gabanuka]

"This is the letter A" - From one of my fav books of all time Eragon.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Still Life With Woodpecker
By Tom Robbins

"His eyes watered, his lower lip quivered like a snail that had just learned the meaning of escargot."

Heh.

 

[SwimmingRock]

From The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse (English translation, obviously):"Thus, beginning from within and growing toward the meeting and confirmation of self and world, the vocation of Joseph Knecht developed in perfect purity."

In retrospect, maybe I should have grabbed my copy of At Swim-Two-Birds instead. There's a conversation between a pooka and an angel regarding whether or not humans are a species of kangaroo (or something to that effect).

 

[Scobie]

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[Mr. Omega]

my favorite book isn't with me, I'll take a line from one of my comics.

Honey, this is the Sun King and he's going to devour you alive. It's going to hurt like hell. It'll just take an instant, but to you it'll seem like an eternity. How does that grab you?

 

[Arkhangelsk]

You know how you read something completely random from a book, and all you can think is "This is a weeeiiiird book." Well, let's switch it around. I want you to find your favorite book (or the most nearby book that you enjoy), open a random page, and read the first sentences you see, and show how weird it sounds out of context.

I'll start off with my favorite, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman: "Lion said: 'I have no love for Anansi The Spider. Once, long ago, he tied me to a log, and had a donkey drag me through the dust, to the seat of Mawu who made all things.'"

Yeah, that was pretty weird... Now your turn.

Also, don't take anything that is too spoilerific. If it is something that could potentially ruin the book for somebody else, close the book and try again. I hope my quote won't ruin the experience for anyone.

I can't take it out of context!! ...I've read the book.

Anyway, I'll play this game, but I'm not gonna tell you where it's from. That's no fun at all. So...

"I was having NC-17 fantasies about you! Planning and scamming life like a regular Casanova And now, you're a big, DISGUSTING KOJAK REJECT!! [HEADING=2]THAT'S FREAKIN' GROSS!"[/HEADING]

Have fun.

What kind of freaky sci-fi erotica do you read?

One book I discovered that really would fit this topic is Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Nothing in that book makes sense. It's a non-existent plot combined with made up English. Analysts have spent years analyzing, and still no result. Take this quote:

"Though the length of land lies under liquidation (floote!) and there's nare a hairbrow nor an eyebush on this glaubrous phace of Herrschuft Whatarwelter she'll loan a vesta and hire some peat and sarch the shores her cockles to heat and she'll do all a turfwoman can to piff the business on."

And no, those spelling errors aren't spelling errors. They are actually in the book.

Wait, someone who has actually read Finnegans Wake? Woah!

I didn't read it, but my dad bought it and quoted it a lot.

 

[Limie]

"Sekiguchi. You just saw that corpse. You just didn't recognise it."
Natsuhiko kyogoku's The Summer of the Ubume. My favourite book!
That's not the weirdest one, but it'll spoil the book somewhat to divulge it before you read it.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

"what is a cleave?"