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[Kinguendo]

"and the original singer of Trivium" - Metal Hammer

I wonder how many people think that was a plant, honestly that is the closest thing that resembles a book to me. Oh wait... there is a comic book, but that doesnt have 56 pages.

 

[Kailias]

"The typical male body contains 640 muscles, which compose around two-fifths of his weight."

The Human Body Book.

My only question is why my dad keeps this thing by my computer.

 

[Kogarian]

"Makenna climbed awkwardly into the saddle."

The Goblin Wood by Hilari Bell.

Under a stack of computer games with someone's picture in it.

 

[Lord_Panzer]

"'I do take off my hat before my King.'"

-Six by Seuss (specifically 'The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins'), Dr. Seuss.

 

[teisjm]

Production Schools, Protected workshops and occupation-projects (translated from danish)
the ook was "facts about work enviroment 2008"

I'm at work ok, i don't have any interresting books lying around. Even had to skip the first 2 books cause they were maps and phonebooks

 

[manaman]

The negative-going alternation of Vi, through the secondary connection of T1, produces a positive-going signal on the base of Q2. Amplified Q2 collector current is produced in the lower half of the primary of T2.

- Analog and Digital Circuits for Electronic Control Systems.

 

[Macgyvercas]

"I found this machine, however, to require considerable alteration before it could be adapted to the purpose to which I intended making it applicable."

The Gold Bug - Edgar Allen Poe

 

[Danzaivar]

"For example, if it is found to be difficult to maintain good performance for users with existing tools, new measurement and control tools may be added to the operating system."

-Operating Systems, Internals and Design Principals, William Stallings
(Italicised is the part of the sentence actually on line 9.)

 

[PersianLlama]

"Now, people of faint heart come to see me every day at the White House," said the President.

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Edit: Oh, 9th sentence, not 9th line. Fix'D

"Fernao, who, although wholly unsmiling and..."

His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik

I've never even read this book...

You should, it's an excellent book.

 

[Blind0bserver]

"... spread with astonishing speed. The human beings..."

Animal Farm by George Orwell.

 

[BardSeed]

"Of course, at everyday speed like that of the train, the disparity is small, Martin claims that Scratchy got the light less than a trillionth of a second after itchy - but were the train moving faster, near lightspeed, the time difference would be substantial."

Line 9 was actually half-way through this sentence, but it wouldn't have made sense without the whole thing, not that it makes any without context anyway. This is from a science book. General relativity is being explained with a little help from some Simpson characters.

Brian Greene - The fabric of the cosmos.

 

[Hafnium]

"Don't Panic."

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Nope, unless your book is different from mine.
I actually found the right line before seeing your post.

""What sort of ship are we in?" Asked Arthur as the pit of eternity yawned beneath them"

 

[Earthbound]

"Wednesday shrugged. 'I know who he is.' He sat down,..."
American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Such a fantastic book. I have to say, this is one of the more interesting forum games I've seen in a while.

Wait, this is a forum game. Shouldn't it be in the RP section, not the Off-topic section?

 

[r4ndom]

"...whoever happened to be co-pilot and pointing out amusing..."

Catch 22.

Well, that's pretty much just a sentence fragment. Got me excited though.

 

[The Shade]

"Hint & Tip: The editing and re-editing process can permit startlingly better - visual and verbal dramatic logic - possibilities."

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



Yes. I'm that boring.

 

[Calobi]

"These include strong type checking, packages, exception handling, and automatic memory handling (i.e., garbage collection)."

Object-Oriented Software Development Using Java, Xiaoping Jia

Just finished my Java programming class last semester.

Edit: It appears many of us here have our textbooks and/or reference materials close at hand.

 

[Naeo]

"cumulatus adj increased; complete."
Collins Latin Concise Dictionary.

...yeah, I keep a Latin dictionary next to my computer. Call me a nerd. I can call you one in Latin.

 

[cthulhu257]

"It was like the difference between a vacant house where the windows are shuttered and boarded up and a house where someone might be peeking out the windows when you're not looking, where a billowing curtain might hide prying eyes."

Beyond the Chocolate War- Robert Cormier

It wasn't as good as Heroes, but I don't have that on hand.

 

[Maet]

You will see your promised city, see Lavinium's walls
- Virgil, The Aeneid (Robert Fagles translation)

 

[Zayren]

Well, Watchmen was closest to me, and I don't feel like counting to page 56...