The Line Written For You (From A Book)

[Dudemeister]

Born in November 1990, the book is the HP Lovecraft Omnibus 2.

"Within twenty four hours, that machine near the table will generate waves acting on unrecognised sense-organs that exist in us as atrophied or rudimentary vestiges."

Nothing to do with me but it sounds cool

 

[The Shade]

Page 90, 5th sentence

"But to what purpose?"

- The Strain - Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan


I like it.

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"Texture."

- Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

Succinct.

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"I still had to find my film."

The Eye is Quicker: Film Editing: Making a Good Film Better - Richard D Pepperman

Perhaps the most acute of all.

 

[Break]

"Stir in the lime juice, add fresh coriander and serve."

Oh, wait, do recipe books count?

 

[Agayek]

Chainfire by Terry Goodkind:

"Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded."

 

[soren7550]

"Stir in the lime juice, add fresh coriander and serve."

Oh, wait, do recipe books count?

Sure, why not? It's a book after all so go for it.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Well, the only book in my general vicinity is The Jewish Low-cholesterol Cook Book.

*Ahem*

Page 95, Line 12

"If you're accustomed to salad dressings containing olive oil, which has no cholesterol-lowering effect, try substituting corn or safflower for a portion of the olive oil.

Yep, that's me, always trying to lower my cholesterol.

 

[saintchristopher]

From [url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3C9TxqyXQ8]House[/url] of Leaves:

The third line on page 87 of The Navidson Record: "Whether chemical clots determining black or video gray approximating absence, the images still remain two dimensional."

The sentence on the third line of the footnote by Johnny Truant on page 87: [small]"I was leering about, pretty obliterated in the arms of drink, hours of drink actually, feeling like days of drink, when this monstrous guy loomed up in front of me, grumbling insensibly about bad behavior, something concerning too much talk with too much gesture, gestures toward her, that much of the grumble, the 'her' bit, I understood."[/small]

 

[SovietSecrets]

Born August 1991, book is 1984

"Is it a fact, for instance, that you had to call them 'Sir' and take off your cap when you passed them?"

Well not many people call me sir and take their hats off for me so doesn't apply to me at all. Be cool if that happened sometime though.

 

[soren7550]

From Perfect Dark:Initial Vector by Greg Rucka (great book)

page 92, sentence two:"...The second, Jesse Ekkert, worked in Clinical Selection, responsible for acquiring and vetting test subjects for R&D."

Hmm. Can't quite say that I've ever been tasked w/ acquiring test subjects, but I have been asked to find someone to tell them something and to find people to join a guild. That's *sort of* similar I guess? ~\o.0/~

 

[DuplicateValue]

Page 92 was blank, so I went to the nearest page that had writing on it.

Line 5: "And it stinks."

Uh, well......thanks...

The book is 'Submarine' by Joe Dunthorne btw.

 

[Lukeje]

Pg. 88, Sentence 8 of On the Road by Kerouac:

The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness.

Well I do like depressing country music so... yeah.

...and is a thread relating birth-months to pages enough to allow the segue into me saying "It's my birthday Woooo!"?

 

[chefassassin2]

Ok, I actually find this kind of amusing. I'm reading "Devil in the Kitchen", by Marco Pierre White, describing how he bacome one of the greatest chefs in the world. I was born in March of 1980, and the line says,

"-perience and the all-male brigade decided, in a typically childish"

The word experience was cut by the length of the line, and the word way would've followed childish. This actually fits halfway decently. Most line cooks Iv'e worked with have been guys, and we've always handled things slightly childishly in the kitchen when the boss wasn't looking.

 

[TheLazyKnight]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Page 91
Sentence 8

"I didn't see you palm it."

Hmm... Out of context, this line sounds weird.

 

[Sigel]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

"Not a problem. I want to."said Shadow.

I guess so? I try to be nice, helpful person, and I do work in food service.

Edit-Page 80, first sentence.

 

[Berethond]

Page 93: The Real Book

| E-7b5 A7#5 | D-7 | D-7b5/G G7#5 | C-7 |

A nice line. From the most meaningful book in existence.
(I win.)

 

[WithHisHat]

Mine comes from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (amazing book!)
Page 91 Sentence 12 is
"But when the source of this strange noise revealed itself, their barrels were lowered."

In this part of the story the four sisters have just killed a massive horde of zombies. The noise, is a zombie baby held in the hands of an undead mother. Even though they are trained in the deadly arts of zombie slaying, none are strong enough to shoot the mother and child.

I find it weird because this is the exact moment where this book changed from a gimmick to a modern re-imagining of a classic. Not to mention I am a zombie-nut.
Real cool game, I will have to try again.

 

[bmf185]

Page 87, sentence 4 of Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (LITERATURE YESSSSS).

"It wouldn't have happened if we hadn't been crossed."

Hrm. I don't like the sound of that.

 

[necromanzer52]

Taken from the hobbit "I will tell you what Gandalf heard, though Bilbo did not understand it.

So my line is breaking the fourth wall.

 

[nicholaxxx]

Quitoon's glorious sword was not distracted by these vision, hoewever.

Mister B. Gone

I have no clue as I have not gotten this far in the book (I don't read as often as i should), page 95 sentence 2

 

[Jedoro]

Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 90, sentence 11:

Lean and tall, their muted brown skin was almost all hidden by sturdy armor.

What... the hell?