Henry started it, but Mike decided to tag people, the fiend. I hear and obey.
So, this is the meme:
Take ten books, and transcribe the fifth sentence from page fifty six.
In keeping with the 5, 56 thing, Make sure that at least five books are fiction, provide five hints, and pass the meme on to six other bloggers.
Once I’ve removed The Beast from my lap I’ll search out some books…
- Far from harming each other, these two inclinations, despite their apparent opposition, seem to walk in mutual agreement and support.
- And at the same time more indirect or glancing parodic relationships may have been at work with several of the other forms of beast poetry which were popular in the Middle Ages, including the most fundamental of them all, the fable.
- Prince Vasili stared at her, then at Boris with a look of enquiry that amounted to perplexity.
- The great family characteristic of the Stanhopes might probably be said to be heartlessness, but this want of feeling was, in the most of them, accompanied by so great an amount of good-nature as to make itself but little noticeable to the world.
- In Table 2.4 by fixing margins of M.S we can fit the logistic model with the term M+S in Table 2.6.
- From the start of the war the only hope of victory which the Greeks ever had lay in help from Pallas.
- I was already stealing money off me mum to pay for me smack at the time.
- Many cases are on record showing how complex and unexpected are the checks and relations between organic beings, which have to struggle together in the same country.
- McCune’s study thus represents a first attempt to disentangle the interactive effects of genetic and environmental factors on individual behavioural characteristics.
- It said “The cazzo is our ultimate weapon against humanity”!
As it happens, these are all on my “still to read” list. As to the hints:
- It’s rather embarrassing that 8 (and 3) are still to be read.
- 9
willmay help me understand The Beast (although not that chapter, so much) - As far as I know, five of the authors are dead.
- One is an edited volume.
- I suspect number 2 is a description of my heritage.
And I’ll tag the following bloggers:
Grrlscientist
Maxine
Cath Ennis
Elisabeth Crone
Lou FCD
David Heddle
#4 sounds like Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire, and I’m going to guess Barchester Towers in particular. My copy is at home, and I’m at work. The dog will be no help whatsoever.
Hey, I meant “number 4”, and for some reason it turned into a bulleted number 1.
🙁
Which one is that? I think you’ve confused the software with the #.
Ah, I replied to your first post as your second one turned up. You’re right on both counts (the book and the bulleting).
No fair tagging me twice! Do I need to do 20 books now?
Oh, and are you using the 5th complete sentence, or counting any carried-over fragments as the first sentence?
You can do it twice if you like. I was giving you the option of where, though.
Dunno about the carry-overs. I think I was inconsistent on them. We won’t send the lawyers after you.
I will try not to confuse the software. I think that number three is Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
With that guess, I should return to my proper task for the afternoon, which is to finish writing up my lecture notes for dental neuroanatomy.
No. 8: The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin.
No. 9: The Domestic Cat, by Dennis C. Turner, Paul Patrick and Gordon Bateson
(thank you Google books)
I just want to know about the best poetry from number 2.
aarrggh BEAST poetry.
No. 6: The Aeneid,Virgil
No. 1: Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
Ok, I’m bored now.
Googling = cheating, Steffi 😉
Yes, I was. But who’s going to know?
Yep, Kirsti. And
SteffiGoogle is right too.Dental neuroanatomy? Definitely something you can get your teeth into. If that hasn’t struck a nerve.
I would have said (3) War and Peace but Kristi got there first, and (7) Trainspotting (Irvine Walsh)? My friend Debra Hamel instigated TwitterLit, in which you can get two first lines of books each day via Twitter- so if anyone likes this kind of game, do check out The Deblog for the details. (the url from memory is along the lines of thedeblog.typepad.com).
I am afraid that is as good as I can do, without
cheatingGoogling 😉Number two seems Joseph Campbell-ish to me, but I’m not sure.
Googling = cheating
Don’t be silly, no one ever cheats or exaggerates on teh interwebz. Everyone is perfectly honest and polite, and not the least bit self-involved.
Bob, you’re playing with fire, by making those incisive comments. Puns are the jewel of my comedic crown, the root of my satirical evil. I’m on the cusp of greatness here. Don’t mess with me, or I’ll beat you to a pulp (after I take the canine for a walk).
Cath, did you tell on me?
Cath, did you tell on me
Oh, yeah, tattling. No one ever tattles on teh interwebz, either. It’s the perfect harmonious society. 😉
Alas, Maxine, I have read Trainspotting. No. 7 is something more recent (but less well known).
Number 2 is actually non-fiction.
I see nobody’s tried guessing number 5. 🙂
Number 2 is actually non-fiction
Joseph Campbell was a professor of literature, who wrote a number of books on comparative mythology and religion (e.g. The Hero with a Thousand Faces). Non-fiction about fiction, I guess. My next scatter-shot guess for number 2 is some sort of Tolkien compendium (though it can’t be A Tolkien Miscellany, which I just checked) or analysis of Tolkien’s works.
Steffi, if you include the words “thank you Google books” in your second comment, some people might surmise that you are telling on yourself…
Perhaps she meant “Google’s books”. Have you talked to your cats about their reading habits?
Not trying to add copying to cheating, but.. excuse me mam, does this bus go to the station?
Google’s not much of a reader (although Google Reader is fab), but Saba reads some terrible dreck.
(Only kidding, Henry! I liked your book!)
The Beast prefers to read about art
(If nothing shows up in my previous comment, that’s my web host is being stupid. It’s a picture of my cat, obviously.)
I can see it! I LOLed. This is a fun meme.
FWIW, p56 of the book The Beast is reading is blank.
My post is up – already off the front page, with no guesses yet! C’mon people, at least one of them was pretty obvious…
Hmmm. I’d better give the answers:
1. Far from harming each other, these two inclinations, despite their apparent opposition, seem to walk in mutual agreement and support.
“Democracy in America”:http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ Alexis de Tocqueville
2. And at the same time more indirect or glancing parodic relationships may have been at work with several of the other forms of beast poetry which were popular in the Middle Ages, including the most fundamental of them all, the fable.
“The Origins of English Nonsense”: – Noel Malcolm (And no, Gee isn’t in the index)
3. Prince Vasili stared at her, then at Boris with a look of enquiry that amounted to perplexity.
“War and Peace”:http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2600 – Leo Tolstoy
4. The great family characteristic of the Stanhopes might probably be said to be heartlessness, but this want of feeling was, in the most of them, accompanied by so great an amount of good-nature as to make itself but little noticeable to the world.
“Barchester Towers”:http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/53/97/frameset.html – Anthony Trollope
5. In Table 2.4 by fixing margins of M.S we can fit the logistic model with the term M+S in Table 2.6.
_”Generalized Linear Models with Random Effects”:http://books.google.fi/books?hl=en&id=JjDMeRM4woEC&dq=Generalized+Linear+Models+with+Random+Effects&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Io7ha36udz&sig=qGYaxp4G6GXe1tkTRb81FohS1jk&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result_ – Lee, Nelder & Pawitan
6. From the start of the war the only hope of victory which the Greeks ever had lay in help from Pallas.
“The Aeneid”:http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/aeneid/ – Virgil
7. I was already stealing money off me mum to pay for me smack at the time.
_”Stuart: a Life Backwards”:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stuart-Life-Backwards-Alexander-Masters/dp/0007200374/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228501060&sr=1-1_ – Alexander Masters
8. Many cases are on record showing how complex and unexpected are the checks and relations between organic beings, which have to struggle together in the same country.
“The Origin of Species”:http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/ – Charles Darwin
9. McCune’s study thus represents a first attempt to disentangle the interactive effects of genetic and environmental factors on individual behavioural characteristics.
“The Domestic Cat”:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Domestic-Cat-Biology-Its-Behaviour/dp/0521636485 Turner & Bateson (eds).
10. It said “The cazzo is our ultimate weapon against humanity”!
_”Frankenstein Unbound”:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Unbound-Brian-W-Aldiss/dp/0450530965/ref=sr_1_43?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228501285&sr=1-43_ – Brian Aldiss
There. Easy once you know.
Gee is in the index of one of my picks (number 8).
Number 5 sounds riveting. When is the movie coming out?
They’re holding out for a higher cut of the profits.
Bob, my lack of effort is just that I’m feeling progressively more stupid as I read what people put up in the meme; I would maybe have guessed #3 out of luck, not out of memory.
(Only kidding, Henry! I liked your book!)
I don’t care …. just as long as you bought it …
I’m finding that most of them leave me thinking “huh?” as well. Cath’s idea of putting the first names of the authors helped a lot – at least I found I had more to base my guesses on.
Number 7 was made into a BBC drama, which was on telly recently – highly recommended. I’ve not read the book, though…..
I dood it