The assassin pulled up short and considered his own thoughts, surprised by his intrest,
"So the roumors are true," the woman said, and he was close enough to hear. "A droe elf."
"My reputation precedes me," Jarlaxle said. He flashed a disarming grin and dipped another of his patented bows. "Jarlaxle at, your service, milady."

- Promise of the Witch-King, By R.A. Salvatore

ok, so I finally found a new book. I know you are only supposed to post the first few lines, but I thinks its hilariously stupid so I'll post the whole page. It's called World's Dumbest Crooks.

When a driver gets into an accident, he files a claim with his insurance company, which usually helps pay for any damages. Here are some wacky excuses from drivers, taken from actual claim forms and published in theToronto Sun:
~Coming home, I drove into the wrong driveway and collided into a tree I don't have.
~The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.
~The pedestrian (a person who is walking) had no idea which way to run, so I ran over him.
~The driver was all over the road; I had to swerve a number of times before I hit (his car).
~In my attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.
~An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car, and vanished.
~I thought my window was down, but I found out that it was up when I put my head through it.
~I was thrown from the car as it left the road. I was later found in a ditch by some stray cows.
~The telephone pole was approaching. I was attempting to swerve out of its way when it struck the front end.
I just thinks they are very funny. Do you?

WOOT! my 40th post!

My brother said that Going Postal is one of the newest books, and I need to read some of the previous ones (they have minor plot links) first, so I'm reading Maskerade on a pdf file. I'm guessing this is page 51:

quote:

With great difficulty and much shouting and untangling of ropes far above,
the figure was lowered to the stage.
He was soaked in paint and turpentine. The swelling audience of off duty
staff and rehearsal truants crowded in around him.
Agnes knelt down, loosened his collar and tried to unwind the rope that had
caught around arm and neck.
'Does anyone know him?' she said.

This isn't my book.. it's my sister's but it's the closest one to me sooo...

-I went home, sir, said Stephen, and Father Arnall said I am not to study till they come.
-Quite right! said the rector.
Stephen swallowed down the thing again and tried to keep his legs and voice from shaking.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Never read it. Like I said it's my sister's.

"In the sixth year his turn of escape came again; he tried it, but failed again. He did not answer at roll-call, and the alarm cannon was fired. At night the people of the vicinity discovered him hidden beneath the keel of a vessel on the stocks; he resisted the galley guard which seized him. Escape and resistance."

Les Miserables
Victor Hugo

Poor Valjean.

Be warned. This is a negative review on 'Les Miz':

Sigh. I didn't like those books. They were way too depressing. And they were in French. And I had to read them as homework. It's a good thing we got the abbreviated book, or our heads would explode by the droning which takes up most of the book. That's on page 51? That isn't even the beginning of the story. That's like an introduction.

Review on the book 'Les misérables' par Victor Hugo, by me.

You have the long version, don't you?

pg 51 is a map. This is one of my fav. pages, pg 260.

"For Emos, changing his appearance to that of a Reisenick was the easy part. He clared the marking form his skin, altered the look of his clothes, gave his elbows and knees a swollen stiffness and increased the size of his hands and feet, squeezing his fingers out thinner and emphasising the knuckles."

The Archisan Tales: Under Fragile Stone-Oisin McGann

"I was none too sure what they were, or might be in the future, but I knew that if I didn't commit myself to them, totally and honestly, I would be doing the very same thing Thymas had accused me of - betraying the Sharith."

Rikardon - The Gandalara Cycle - The Glass of Dyskornis - Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron 1982

And there was Haverstock Hall, a great mansion with stone figures on the terrace and seven figures in the price. Sir David's family had lived there for generations, Mrs. Halverson had told him. They also seemed to own half of the countryside...

Mudd, where's that from? It sounds really familiar...

quote:

Never mind. I digress. That's why there are editors. (Thank You.) But, here's the timeline, follow this:

End of February, right on schedule, I'm finally coming out of my usual post-Christmas depression. Don't ask.

The Strange Disappearance of David Gerrold by David Gerrold

I don't know, my sister got it at an anime convention. Haha.

quote:

"I didn't" [find you] said Polly. It's an accident. I came over just to look at wolves. I never expected to you here, Wolf"

'The Wolf in the Zoo', from Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, by Catherine Storr.

It's by my computer because I was relaying the Wolf's variation on "Monday's Child" to my other half. (The ryhme which tradiationally starts "Monday's child is fair of face / Tuesday's child is full of grace".. but the Wolf's version starts "Monday's child is fairly tough / Tuesday's child is tender enough").

Well its a book on the computer (well a text-file that I'm currently using one computer screen equals one page, because I've not made a pdf of it yet). Also, am including the introduction in this count which is 23 pages long. Also, sentence is a bit strange, but am measuring from one period to the next as a sentence.

First few lines:

quote:

Thus to lessen the enchantment,
Thus the potent charm to banish.

First sentence:

quote:

As the magic spell is broken,
Youkahainen, sad, but wiser,
Drags his feet from out the quicksand,
Lifts his beard from out the water,
From the rocks leads forth his courser,
Brings his sledge back from the rushes,
Calls his whip back from the ocean,
Sets his golden sledge in order,
Throws himself upon the cross-bench,
Snaps his whip and hies him homeward,
Hastens homeward, heavy-hearted,
Sad indeed to meet his mother,
Aino's mother, gray and aged.

Hmm, am curious if anyone knows what I'm reading. Is a translation of The Kalevala.

It sounds to me like something from Mythology, but I honestly wouldn't know...

The only books I have with me are a sketchbook, and AWD, which I'm sure someone has already done...

Yay for new books!

"'You are rather bitter for someone so young.'
'That's easy for you to say when you're forced on a dangergeld for a reason you don't know by a group that enforces unspoken rules in unsaid ways.'
That stopped him long enough for me to step around him and past Myrten. Tamra's back was in front of me as she passed by the table. No one was left there. Even Krystal had left several of the delicately-cut apple slices on the plate, where they were now turning brown."

The Magic of Recluce,
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

"...And so: Siddhartha is not satisfactory to you as he is,wiith oil in his hair, but no clothes, no shoes, no money?"
Laughing, Kamala excalimed: "No, my worthy friend, he is not satisfactory. He must have clothes, lovely clothes, and shoes, lovely shoes, and lots of money in his pouch, and gifts for Kamala. Now do you know, samana from the forest? Have you noted it?"
From Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse. Not the most interesting in my opinion but my sister's summer reading happens to just be hanging out on the floor.

This one's funny and it's really on page 51:
"'Your welcome to look it up yourself,' she gestured at the huge stack of journals beside her bed.
'I'd rather drown' Seth admitted.'smarter people than you have tried to trick me into reading'"
Fablehaven, #3, Grip of the Shadow Plague Brandon Mull
Good series.

page 51
"The day that had seemed mild earlier seemed chilly now, as the spring breeze whistled down the street and rustled the maple leaves"

guess the book

"We had no difficulty finding the broad elephant trail, which Ventvogel, after examination, pronounced to have been made by between twenty and thirty elephants, most of them full-grown bulls."

King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard. A classic.

"It's an interesting thing to be both critical and expendable to humanity's efforts to populate the stars. On the whole, I thought, I might have been smarter to stay on Huckleberry."

--The Last Colony. John Scalzi.

"No, magic is the only way," said Ponder Stibbons.
"It worked when we brought him here, didn't it?"
"Oh, yes," said Rincewind. "Just send me thousands of miles with my pants on fire and you don't even know where I'll land? Oh yes, that's ideal, that is."

Interesting Times-Terry pratchett.