The Line Written For You (From A Book)

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BuckminsterF

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pg 93 sentence 10:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- "Can you make it that far?" he grinned heavily.

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (essays by Aldous Huxley)- For most of us most of the time, the world of everyday experience seems rather dim and drab.
 

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oliveira8 said:
ThaBenMan said:
Lol, I've got a good one. This is from More Information Than You Require, by John Hodgman (The "I'm a PC" guy from the Mac ads). It's sentence 12 of page 321 (84 pages past page 237, the page the book starts on. Don't ask...)

(from a collection of facts about President Teddy Roosevelt)

"Roosevelt died fighting an old lion and was buried in Mount Rushmore, WHERE HIS GIGANTIC, FOSSILIZED FACE STILL STARES OUT OVER THE COUNTRY HE BEAT INTO SHAPE TO THIS VERY DAY."

It doesn't describe me at all, much too badass and epic. I'm glad I got a good one though - hilarious book, check it out for a good laugh.
John Hodgman is one of the guys in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He does that segment "Your Welcome" where he fixes some problems in the world and mainly the USA.

One of the fixes for Health Care Reform is make every American a member of congress so all can get free health care. Anyway pretty stupid. ^^
Yeah, I know he's on the Daily Show, too. I just figured more people would be familiar with the Mac ads. And what are you calling stupid, exactly?
 

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ThaBenMan said:
oliveira8 said:
ThaBenMan said:
Lol, I've got a good one. This is from More Information Than You Require, by John Hodgman (The "I'm a PC" guy from the Mac ads). It's sentence 12 of page 321 (84 pages past page 237, the page the book starts on. Don't ask...)

(from a collection of facts about President Teddy Roosevelt)

"Roosevelt died fighting an old lion and was buried in Mount Rushmore, WHERE HIS GIGANTIC, FOSSILIZED FACE STILL STARES OUT OVER THE COUNTRY HE BEAT INTO SHAPE TO THIS VERY DAY."

It doesn't describe me at all, much too badass and epic. I'm glad I got a good one though - hilarious book, check it out for a good laugh.
John Hodgman is one of the guys in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He does that segment "Your Welcome" where he fixes some problems in the world and mainly the USA.

One of the fixes for Health Care Reform is make every American a member of congress so all can get free health care. Anyway pretty stupid. ^^
Yeah, I know he's on the Daily Show, too. I just figured more people would be familiar with the Mac ads. And what are you calling stupid, exactly?
Oh the solutions he comes up with problems are usually drawn from people actually saying them.

Like the health care one. A member of the US congress did an interview complaining about Obama's health care reform and said "I'm a member of congressr and I have the right for free heatl care bla bla"(Something like that.) So the way to fix everything is make every US citizen into a member of congress, so everyone gets free healthcare and theres no need for such a big reform!
 

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Crap... I tried it with Lord Of The Flies, and the line i was on only had 1 word from the previous sentence above :O

can i try again with another book? XD
 

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soren7550 said:
Ok, it's simple enough: Go grab a book, pretty much any will do. Take the last two digits of the year of your birth, then turn to that page (If you were born in 2000, or, somehow 1900, go to page 100). Now take the number of the month you were born in, and find that sentence on the above page. (if the page starts w/ a sentence that's continuing from the previous page, don't count that as the first sentence. Just move on to the first full sentence and move on from there.) Then post the sentence here. (you can post as many times as you like.)

Does it seem to describe you in any way? Explain.

Ex: I was born in February of 1992, so I would turn to page 92 in whatever book I'm holding and write down the second line from the page.

From Mass Effect: Ascension by Drew Karpyshyn (one of my favorite books based off my all time favorite game.)

page 92, sentence two: "...He stood up from her bedside and leaned in to kiss her on the top of her head."

It's from the part when the father is kissing his daughter goodnight. Seeing as my bastard father never loved me and I want nothing to do with the man, this one doesn't describe me at all.
maybe you have it in reverse. maybe this is what you wanted subconsiously, all along. maybe you just wanted your father to love you.
 

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From the Wii Operations manual, the only book I have that's not Manga,

""Appuyez sur le bouton A pour modifier la couleur du crayon a croquis"

Translated via babelfish, that's "Press on the button has to modify the color of the pencil has sketch"

So, yeah, that's totally me in a nutshell.
 

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From Left to Tell, by Imaculee Ilibagiza

"They were cruel, vicious, and dangerous, as kids can sometimes be, but nevertheless, they were children, they saw, but didn't understand, the terrible harm they had inflicted."
 

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DarkRyter said:
From the Wii Operations manual, the only book I have that's not Manga,

""Appuyez sur le bouton A pour modifier la couleur du crayon a croquis"

Translated via babelfish, that's "Press on the button has to modify the color of the pencil has sketch"

So, yeah, that's totally me in a nutshell.
Wow, I feel like I've known you all my life, just by reading that quote.
 

effilctar

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"Courtney had Kurt killed. Spread the word"

From the book I've been writing in my mind for 4 years.
 

Jurassic Rob

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OK born in June 1985

Book is the Stand by Stephen King

"He drove on".

Wow! My whole perspective on life has changed!
 

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Born in June 1995 and the book is Stone Cold:

'so we're sitting on the wall and she says, "let's"'

If this is meant to describe me, it definitely doesn't end with "go fuck".
 

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the nearest book i have is The Art of Game Design: a Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell.

"Risk #3: Our current thinking is that we need thirty different houses to make a full game - creating all the different interiors and and animated characters might take more time than we have."

how utterly irrelevant and utterly silly. i'm annoyed because i thought this thread would be about lines from book that were particularly meaningful to you. i'm also annoyed because i can't find "Now I Can Die in Peace" by Bill Simmons, my book of choice for these sorts of threads.

effilctar said:
"Courtney had Kurt killed. Spread the word"

From the book I've been writing in my mind for 4 years.
your mind has page numbers?
 

effilctar

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your mind has page numbers?
Not really. I've wanted to write a book for 4 years not. It's entirely written out in my head but I can't be bothered writing. I'm waiting for a device that reads your thoughts and prints them.
 

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effilctar said:
cobra_ky said:
your mind has page numbers?
Not really. I've wanted to write a book for 4 years not. It's entirely written out in my head but I can't be bothered writing. I'm waiting for a device that reads your thoughts and prints them.
you're probably waiting in vain. not that i'm one to talk, i have a story i've been thinking about for over a decade.
 

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Xero Scythe said:
maybe you have it in reverse. maybe this is what you wanted subconsiously, all along. maybe you just wanted your father to love you.
I've thought of that on occasion. I mean, what young kid doesn't want a loving parent?

But that has never happened with the man, and I know it will never happen. I haven't spoken to him in a few years and I wish to keep it that way. He's caused me and everyone else too much trouble. I'm going to be 18 soon enough, and I've long ago accepted that things will never be good between me and him.
 

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sky14kemea said:
Crap... I tried it with Lord Of The Flies, and the line i was on only had 1 word from the previous sentence above :O

can i try again with another book? XD
Of course. ^_^
effilctar said:
"Courtney had Kurt killed. Spread the word"

From the book I've been writing in my mind for 4 years.
Someone else who believes that the crazy ***** had him killed. Have you ever read the book Love & Death:The Death of Kurt Cobain ? It's a great read that investigates the facts behind Kurt's death and comes to the conclusion that Kurt was murdered.
 

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American Gods, page 92.

"In truth, the American colonies were as much a dumping ground as much as they were as an escape, a forgetting place."

Hehe, that made me chuckle, almost as much as when I found out that many Australians are descended from penal colonists and the guards of said penal colonies.
Aerodynamic said:
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Book Siddhartha
Good book choice.