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Book meme

Posted by wolfger on November 12, 2008

I normally don’t do memes here, but I’ll make an exception. This comes from  Matthew Helmke on Planet Ubuntu.

  • Grab the nearest book.
  • Open it to page 56.
  • Find the fifth sentence.
  • Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
  • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

“Now, other than the cancer, which as I say isn’t really problematic, you’re in as good a shape as any man of your physical age could be.”
Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi (who is, by the way, a regular at Penguicon)

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One Response to “Book meme”

  1. imnotbenny said

    November 15, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    Hey Wolfger, nice blog. I checked out your myspace page- I didn’t know there was role playing groups like that in New Baltimore. Where do you guys have your battles?

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