Page 56, Sentence 9?

[Legion]

Typical. Mine sounds like it's a prelude to rape (it isn't):

'Watchers' by Dean Koontz

"He grabbed her left arm and twisted it behind her back, hard."

 

[Kabutos]

"At the sight of another human being my torpor passed, and I leaned out of the window eagerly."

-The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells

 

[Fingerprint]

One of the things you learn , after years of dealing with drug people, is that everything is serious.

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson.

Without the next sentence/part of speech that line just doesn't sound as good.

 

[Gitsnik]

These IRPs are passed up and down a "chain" of drivers.

Closest novel would be an annotated copy of Dracula, no way in hell I'm counting those tiny little lines.

 

[bloodmonkey]

aneurin: n. a less common name for thiamine

The Collins English Dictionary

 

[Mackinator]

up with her mother's Platinum-blone-hair-dye

Matilda.

 

[Lukeje]

Since the field is along the z direction, we replace H.L by HL[sub]Z[/sub], and write down the perturbed electronic wavefunction in the new form

• &#968; = &#968;[sub]o[/sub] - &#946;H&#931;[sub]n[/sub](<nlL[sub]Z[/sub]l0>/(E[sub]n[/sub] - E[sub]0[/sub]))&#968;[sub]n[/sub].

From Introduction to Magnetic Resonance by Carrington and McLachlan.

 

[Zoidberg]

"because the wavefunction sin kx is not an eigenfuction of the"

Quanta, Matter, and Change

 

[Dys]

(the closest one, no running off to find a manly book)

The guy who has "The Alphabet of Manliness" nearest to him wins the thread.

That was after the thermo textbook on my lap, so I kinda cheated (do textbooks even count?).

 

[Church256]

"The box - the box that bites people - ononono ... pleasssse ..."

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

Still laughing... such a great line for this kind of thing.

 

[spuddyt]

What if the book is the very hungry catapillar, that doesn't have enough pages (yes that is genuineally the closest book)

 

[rosac]

"Starting to rain," he said, "I better be getting home."-The Fate of Katherine Carr, one of my mothers books.

yeah, yeah that old excuse.

anyways:

how long people live (life expectancy)

Active sociology for GCSE by Jonathan Blundell.

I iz revisingz...

rosac

 

[Ultress]

"Some days there I'd take in ten or twenty dollars."

grapes of Wrath even though I haven't even got to page 56 yet because I'm lazt my read more now that schools out.

 

[Abedeus]

"The box - the box that bites people - ononono ... pleasssse ..."

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

Still laughing... such a great line for this kind of thing.

God damn it, you took my book.

Okay, next is... Okay, something inventive.

In its shade, barely visible in the distance he could see the strongholds of other great houses - Mizzrym, Faen Tlabbar, and even Agrach Dyrr.

Resurrection - Paul S. Kemp.

I had to translate it, but it should be pretty faithful to the original.

 

[Xorghul]

"It sounds like science fiction, but fifteen, twenty years ago, today's mobiles would have been science fiction for most people."
Stephen King - Cell
It wasn't really the nearest book I found, but I honestly couldn't figure out which was the 9th sentence in the English-Swedish dictionary I found.
So Cell was the second closest book and I took it instead. Although it was in Swedish so I translated it the best I could.

 

[Failhammer]

XANTHIAS: And these people lap it all up.

Funily enough, we had to read this play in Ancient History a few weeks ago.

 

[Blow_Pop]

The duration of this effect is extended when more skill points are invested in the skill, along with the chance of a successful conversion.
-Diablo 2 Ultimate Strategy Guide, Chapter 2 The Characters, The Paladin.(Conversion spell)

My love and I were playing the other night and deciding skills based on what we want....funny thing we were just discussing this too...cause he's a Paladin. I play Druid/Assassin haha
but closest without having to run around the place trying to find a book.