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Title: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: fearisthekey on July 02, 2007, 09:28:37 PM
Turn to page 7.

What is the sentence starting nearest line 7?

"But the noises never woke me fully and I was always able to slip back into the dream I'd been having before".

Prizes for anyone who can name the source of any quote.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Ironside on July 02, 2007, 09:29:19 PM
whats a book?


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Wardonkey on July 02, 2007, 09:30:51 PM
Who are those hooded hordes swarming


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Ironside on July 02, 2007, 09:31:22 PM
Who are those hooded hordes swarming


torie manefesto


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: fearisthekey on July 02, 2007, 09:34:27 PM
Who are those hooded hordes swarming


torie manefesto

lol  :)up

Isn't she a spanish porn star?


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: madasahatstand on July 02, 2007, 09:38:14 PM
And thus the account should be ended. but no true account can ever end. And nothing can ever be safe or sure so long as cunning men plot to steal or destroy....................................


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 09:38:24 PM
Turn to page 7.

What is the sentence starting nearest line 7?

"But the noises never woke me fully and I was always able to slip back into the dream I'd been having before".

Prizes for anyone who can name the source of any quote.


I have this down as "Bitch" by Alex Garland


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: charmaine on July 02, 2007, 09:39:13 PM
" Almost two years,' Spencer said answering his own question. ' Two years of kindness , long walks , chasing frisbees on the beach , reguler meals ... and still sometimes you think i'm going to hit you .'


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: fearisthekey on July 02, 2007, 09:40:20 PM
Turn to page 7.

What is the sentence starting nearest line 7?

"But the noises never woke me fully and I was always able to slip back into the dream I'd been having before".

Prizes for anyone who can name the source of any quote.


I have this down as "Bitch" by Alex Garland

This is my face:

 ;gobsmacked;

well done that man. omg


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 09:40:42 PM
" Almost two years,' Spencer said answering his own question. ' Two years of kindness , long walks , chasing frisbees on the beach , reguler meals ... and still sometimes you think i'm going to hit you .'

Dean Koontz' dark rivers of the heart.

not much of a speller, is he? ;) (and a terrible book bTW)




Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 09:43:18 PM
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all"


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Claw75 on July 02, 2007, 09:43:54 PM
Edit - will add the next line too to make it a little more guessable.

"What are you dying from?"

"Pain".  A rupture, an explosion, a slow, tortured death.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 09:45:05 PM
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all"

actually that's the top of page 7 but someone might recognise it ..and I'm pretentious enough to let it stand :)


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Nakor on July 02, 2007, 09:49:53 PM
'We sat around talking to each other, comparing conditions in different prisons in much the same way as I once discussed the pro's and cons of various first-class hotels.'


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Colchester Kev on July 02, 2007, 09:50:38 PM
Trap 6 MOONA MOE PILOT (W)                Miss K Searle                     David Mullins
(Runs 42)   (1sts 11)      (2nds 6)


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 09:52:55 PM
Trap 6 MOONA MOE PILOT (W)                Miss K Searle                     David Mullins
(Runs 42)   (1sts 11)      (2nds 6)

 rotflmfao


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Graham C on July 02, 2007, 09:53:05 PM
You win at tournament poker because of two important factors


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: tikay on July 02, 2007, 09:53:27 PM
'We sat around talking to each other, comparing conditions in different prisons in much the same way as I once discussed the pro's and cons of various first-class hotels.'

Pride & Perjury, (Jonathan Aitken)?


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: booder on July 02, 2007, 09:53:41 PM
Trap 6 MOONA MOE PILOT (W)                Miss K Searle                     David Mullins
(Runs 42)   (1sts 11)      (2nds 6)

 rotflmfao


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Claw75 on July 02, 2007, 09:53:54 PM
Trap 6 MOONA MOE PILOT (W)                Miss K Searle                     David Mullins
(Runs 42)   (1sts 11)      (2nds 6)

Bleak House?


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 09:57:44 PM
Edit - will add the next line too to make it a little more guessable.

"What are you dying from?"

"Pain".  A rupture, an explosion, a slow, tortured death.

this book will safe your life by AM Holmes  not as good as Music for Torching,.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Geo the Sarge on July 02, 2007, 09:59:11 PM
Who are those hooded hordes swarming

The waste Land - TS Eliott?


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Robert HM on July 02, 2007, 09:59:31 PM
Edit - will add the next line too to make it a little more guessable.

"What are you dying from?"

"Pain".  A rupture, an explosion, a slow, tortured death.

A life saver of a book


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Nakor on July 02, 2007, 10:02:10 PM
'We sat around talking to each other, comparing conditions in different prisons in much the same way as I once discussed the pro's and cons of various first-class hotels.'

Pride & Perjury, (Jonathan Aitken)?

If thats a joke because you know, funny, if that a serious guess I am not sure you could be any further away, and again very funny.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Jon MW on July 02, 2007, 10:04:32 PM
"Thus for France to lose Milan all that had to happen the first time was that Duke Ludovico should rampage on the borders, but for France to lose it a second time the whole world had to oppose her, and her armies had to be destroyed or chased out of Italy; and the reasons for this I gave above".

(And in case you were wondering, France did lose Milan both times :) )


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Claw75 on July 02, 2007, 10:05:43 PM
Edit - will add the next line too to make it a little more guessable.

"What are you dying from?"

"Pain".  A rupture, an explosion, a slow, tortured death.

this book will safe your life by AM Holmes  not as good as Music for Torching,.

very impressive  ;applause;  Do you have a photographic memory?


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 10:06:25 PM
"Thus for France to lose Milan all that had to happen the first time was that Duke Ludovico should rampage on the borders, but for France to lose it a second time the whole world had to oppose her, and her armies had to be destroyed or chased out of Italy; and the reasons for this I gave above".

(And in case you were wondering, France did lose Milan both times :) )


Nice to know someone else reads pretentious crap like I do

:)
Machiavelli's the Prince


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: tikay on July 02, 2007, 10:08:30 PM
'We sat around talking to each other, comparing conditions in different prisons in much the same way as I once discussed the pro's and cons of various first-class hotels.'

Pride & Perjury, (Jonathan Aitken)?

If thats a joke because you know, funny, if that a serious guess I am not sure you could be any further away, and again very funny.

A serious guess!

Continuing with the theme, how about "A Prison Diary" (Jeffrey Archer).



Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 10:10:40 PM
Surprised noone got mine yet...it's a classic FFS by Englands best ever writer


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: booder on July 02, 2007, 10:11:31 PM
Spot and his dad are on the farm.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Geo the Sarge on July 02, 2007, 10:12:55 PM
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all"

Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: The_nun on July 02, 2007, 10:13:07 PM
Heck..some of you lot have some wide pages to fit all them words onto.


mine is


Looby loo held Andys hand


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Graham C on July 02, 2007, 10:13:29 PM
'We sat around talking to each other, comparing conditions in different prisons in much the same way as I once discussed the pro's and cons of various first-class hotels.'

Pride & Perjury, (Jonathan Aitken)?

If thats a joke because you know, funny, if that a serious guess I am not sure you could be any further away, and again very funny.

Wild stab in the dark, but it's not Mr Nice by Howard Marks is it?


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Graham C on July 02, 2007, 10:13:59 PM
Heck..some of you lot have some wide pages to fit all them words onto.


mine is


Looby loo held Andys hand

lol, know what you mean, a Balamory book was a very close 2nd for me :D


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Nakor on July 02, 2007, 10:15:26 PM
'We sat around talking to each other, comparing conditions in different prisons in much the same way as I once discussed the pro's and cons of various first-class hotels.'

Pride & Perjury, (Jonathan Aitken)?

If thats a joke because you know, funny, if that a serious guess I am not sure you could be any further away, and again very funny.

A serious guess!

Continuing with the theme, how about "A Prison Diary" (Jeffrey Archer).




A huge leap towards the correct answer - but still a miss.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Geo the Sarge on July 02, 2007, 10:16:14 PM
Tommy had to join in. What you did to that poor unfortunate girl is a disgrace to the Irish race and you should be ashamed of yourself.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 10:17:12 PM
my wife says the Looby loo held Andys hand this was Andy Panby or something like that


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Nakor on July 02, 2007, 10:17:20 PM
'We sat around talking to each other, comparing conditions in different prisons in much the same way as I once discussed the pro's and cons of various first-class hotels.'

Pride & Perjury, (Jonathan Aitken)?

If thats a joke because you know, funny, if that a serious guess I am not sure you could be any further away, and again very funny.

Wild stab in the dark, but it's not Mr Nice by Howard Marks is it?

 :)up :)up


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Robert HM on July 02, 2007, 10:17:38 PM
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all"

You worry me, what else do you keep in your attic?  ;)


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 10:18:25 PM
Tommy had to join in. What you did to that poor unfortunate girl is a disgrace to the Irish race and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Angela's ashes..better film


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 02, 2007, 10:19:13 PM
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all"

Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

give that man a medal of some sort..nice job Guv'ner


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Graham C on July 02, 2007, 10:19:56 PM
Cool :D  It just seemed familiar!   Great book.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: tikay on July 02, 2007, 10:25:50 PM
Surprised noone got mine yet...it's a classic FFS by Englands best ever writer

Well in that case, thw Author has to be Ian Allen.

http://www.ianallanpublishing.com/catalog/


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Geo the Sarge on July 02, 2007, 10:26:33 PM
Tommy had to join in. What you did to that poor unfortunate girl is a disgrace to the Irish race and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Angela's ashes..better film

Agreed - great film.
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all"

Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

give that man a medal of some sort..nice job Guv'ner

Great read.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Tonji on July 02, 2007, 10:39:59 PM
"A sheet of paper is laid on a plate which has been prepared with a mixture of tallow and wax ground"

.....non fiction

a virtual prize to anyone who is close to the title.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: charmaine on July 02, 2007, 11:06:54 PM
" Almost two years,' Spencer said answering his own question. ' Two years of kindness , long walks , chasing frisbees on the beach , reguler meals ... and still sometimes you think i'm going to hit you .'

Dean Koontz' dark rivers of the heart.

not much of a speller, is he? ;) (and a terrible book bTW)





well done , finding it very hard to get into but i will not give up lol



Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: The_nun on July 02, 2007, 11:09:16 PM
Dean Koontz'

Is he the guy that finished off the Richard Laymans last book due to his death.

Richard Layman.. now he wrote some weird books ..read many of them whilst choo chooing along..


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: AndrewT on July 02, 2007, 11:27:12 PM
How are you guys getting on with your Google competition?


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: ifm on July 02, 2007, 11:35:19 PM
How are you guys getting on with your Google competition?

LOL it's like the quiz all over again!!


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: GlasgowBandit on July 02, 2007, 11:53:16 PM
If anyone gets this one I'll buy you a pint :)


"preach "loyalty", constitutionalism and religious liberty"


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Claw75 on July 02, 2007, 11:55:58 PM
OK Boldie, here's another (I don't know what it is with page 7 line 7 and death references in my books!)

The man who was going to die was on his knees


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Claw75 on July 02, 2007, 11:57:30 PM
and one more.....

even the small measure of spontaneity she craved seemed anathema to him.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: AndrewT on July 02, 2007, 11:57:37 PM
OK Boldie, here's another (I don't know what it is with page 7 line 7 and death references in my books!)

The man who was going to die was on his knees

Michael Barrymore's autobiography?


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Claw75 on July 02, 2007, 11:59:15 PM
OK Boldie, here's another (I don't know what it is with page 7 line 7 and death references in my books!)

The man who was going to die was on his knees

Michael Barrymore's autobiography?

 rotflmfao


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: bolt pp on July 03, 2007, 01:12:04 AM
Surprised noone got mine yet...it's a classic FFS by Englands best ever writer

 ;carlocitrone;


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: doubleup on July 03, 2007, 01:46:35 AM

"move knob in all four directions to adjust"

(It was the book nearest to me)


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: doubleup on July 03, 2007, 01:51:01 AM
You win at tournament poker because of two important factors

SKLANSKY!!!!!!

this was actually just a bit further away from me than the peugeot 206 handbook


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: leighton_87 on July 03, 2007, 02:10:19 AM

"move knob in all four directions to adjust"

(It was the book nearest to me)

Is it a peugeot 206 handbook??


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Swordpoker on July 03, 2007, 03:44:26 AM
"So how do we shape up a novel thought into something of quality, without the equivalent of the guiding hand that shapes up a lump of clay into a pot."



Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Sark79 on July 03, 2007, 06:22:18 AM
"Once you get used to the various patterns, the use of short vowels becomes less of a problem"  .  Taken from a really old and dusty Arabic phrase book on my desk . 


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Jon MW on July 03, 2007, 09:38:57 AM
"Thus for France to lose Milan all that had to happen the first time was that Duke Ludovico should rampage on the borders, but for France to lose it a second time the whole world had to oppose her, and her armies had to be destroyed or chased out of Italy; and the reasons for this I gave above".

(And in case you were wondering, France did lose Milan both times :) )


Nice to know someone else reads pretentious crap like I do

:)
Machiavelli's the Prince

But have you worked out a way of incorporating the lessons learned into your poker game yet ;)


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Longines on July 03, 2007, 11:19:50 AM
Page 7 is the first page so the book starts:

"I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped."

Easy Google fodder.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: FlyingPig on July 03, 2007, 12:41:30 PM
Sizes for structural elements for certain reseidential buildings and other small buildings of traditional construction.

Guess what that is.....


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: BigTomatoes on July 03, 2007, 12:56:45 PM

 mines is pretty easy as well , in fact im not going to bother typing it in , ill find another book.

 the one i had mentions the 2 main charatcers in the book in this one sentence , Suge and Tupac.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: AdamM on July 03, 2007, 01:01:06 PM
I better not.

the nearest book to me is the Viz Profanasaurus (for work purposes).


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: AdamM on July 03, 2007, 01:04:03 PM
Arse like a wind sock sim. A well-bummed shitter.

honestly , it's for work


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: FlyingPig on July 03, 2007, 01:05:56 PM
I better not.

the nearest book to me is the Viz Profanasaurus (for work purposes).


Page 7 of my Viz Profanisaurus is 'Babia majora' - A gaggle of flange.

No explanation neccessary....


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: AdamM on July 03, 2007, 01:08:17 PM
my text doesn't start til page 13 so I've gone in 7 pages

Babia Majora is page 22 in my new edition.
lots of profanities have been added


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: xxMAIRxx on July 03, 2007, 01:19:30 PM
Page 7, Line 7 is:

"Brownlee Harris was his number two, he remained....."


Easy one I think.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Jim-D on July 03, 2007, 06:14:24 PM
"From his squeaky chair in the warm office, the big man sipped coffee and squinted through the bright morning light toward the far end of the pier"


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: fearisthekey on July 03, 2007, 06:33:12 PM
"From his squeaky chair in the warm office, the big man sipped coffee and squinted through the bright morning light toward the far end of the pier"

 ;carlocitrone; read it.....


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 03, 2007, 06:41:14 PM
OK Boldie, here's another (I don't know what it is with page 7 line 7 and death references in my books!)

The man who was going to die was on his knees

Love in the present tense by Catherine Hyde....
Pay it forward was better..though it made a TERRIBLE movie.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 03, 2007, 06:43:24 PM
"So how do we shape up a novel thought into something of quality, without the equivalent of the guiding hand that shapes up a lump of clay into a pot."



How brains think


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Jim-D on July 03, 2007, 06:45:11 PM
OK Boldie, here's another (I don't know what it is with page 7 line 7 and death references in my books!)

The man who was going to die was on his knees

Love in the present tense by Catherine Hyde....
Pay it forward was better..though it made a TERRIBLE movie.

I dont think I've ever cried so uncontrollably at anything in my life than when i watched this movie. :'(


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 03, 2007, 06:45:25 PM
"From his squeaky chair in the warm office, the big man sipped coffee and squinted through the bright morning light toward the far end of the pier"

The Cold moon..and the Stone monkey is better....


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: boldie on July 03, 2007, 06:46:14 PM
OK Boldie, here's another (I don't know what it is with page 7 line 7 and death references in my books!)

The man who was going to die was on his knees

Love in the present tense by Catherine Hyde....
Pay it forward was better..though it made a TERRIBLE movie.

I dont think I've ever cried so uncontrollably at anything in my life than when i watched this movie. :'(

I read the book after I saw the movie...loved the premise of it just thought the movie was a bit much..the book is truly top class.


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Jim-D on July 03, 2007, 06:58:11 PM
Think that will be my next purchase then ( the books are always so much better than the movies)


Title: Re: Open the book nearest to you
Post by: Jim-D on July 03, 2007, 07:00:30 PM
"From his squeaky chair in the warm office, the big man sipped coffee and squinted through the bright morning light toward the far end of the pier"

The Cold moon..and the Stone monkey is better....

Spot on, ifm got me on to Jeffery Deaver, finished "the coffin dancer" and loved it and this is the next installment and am half way thru and it ain't disappointing yet