Home Account Search
grab the nearest book
After reading Action Skeptics latest post on the "grab the nearest book" meme, I've decided to official consider myself an honorary tagee.

The instructions are as follows:

1. Grab the nearest book (that is at least 123 pages long).
2. Open to p. 123.
3. Go down to the 5th sentence.
4. Type in the following 3 sentences.
5. Tag five people.
Well, the nearest book to me as I type this, believe it or not, is Christopher Hitchens' God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

On page 123, it is written:
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also. Its founding narrative likewise takes place within an astonishingly small compass, and relates facts about extremely tedious local quarrels.
Wow, I think these might just be the first words pertaining to Islam I have on my blog! Thanks Hitchens.

Alright, I'm going to tag Fulfilled in Jesus, Greta Christina, xkcd, Henrique Couto of the Freak Forum, and Reasonable Doubts.


Trackbacks :
http://michaeldepaula.com/blog/track.aspx?id=69
Done!

http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/02/the-book-meme.html
Comment By Greta Christina At 2/29/2008 8:59 PM
Please logon or register to comment.