Grab the nearest book.

1. Open it to page 161.
2. Find the fifth full sentence.
3. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.

Don't search around looking for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

My nearest book was Drugs in America: A Documentary History
edited by David F. Musto, M.D.
"Alcohol Explored" Howard W. Haggard and E.M. Jellnick, the sentence is:

"Within this range, alcohol concentration becomes dangerous to human life."

Common Sense - 6/15/2007

"Most importantly, the dramatic expansion and evolution of financial markets since the 1980s have significantly reduced the leverage central banks can exert over private sector credit."

Niall Ferguson, The Cash Nexus.

Robert Hugh Hodges - 6/14/2007

My nearest book is Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass and the fifth sentence on the hundred and sixty-first sentence is "As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled."

Robert Hugh Hodges - 6/14/2007

My nearest book is Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass and the fifth sentence on the hundred and sixty-first sentence is "As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled."

Paul Noonan - 6/13/2007

Actually, there are several books on the shelf nearest me that I can reach without getting up. I cant't say which of 5 or 6 is actually nearest, so I'll pick the smallest one (least expenditure of energy on my part):

THE WARRIOR KINGS OF SAXON ENGLAND by Ralph Whitlock (Barnes and Noble 1993):(Oh crap, it has only 160 pages -I'm not making this up and I didn't realize it until I wrote the foregoing).

OK, try again. THE ANNOTATED BASEBALL STORIES OF RING LARDNER: 1914-1919 edited by George W. Hilton (Stanford University Press 1995):

"We had it hot and heavy and the Allens butted in but I soon showed them where they was at and made them shut there mouth." (This is exactly as it appears in the book. The narrator is an uneducated man.