From Alex’s journal (farmkingdude85):

DIRECTIONS:

1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 — first sentence
3. Book #2 — last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 — second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 — next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 — final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph.
8. Cite the books used for curiosity’s sake.

And here’s what I got:

Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat. It was this deficiency, I considered, while running over in thought the perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people, and while speculating upon the possible influence which the one, in the long lapse of centuries, might have exercised upon the other-it was this deficiency, perhaps, of collateral issue, and the consequent undeviating transmission, from sire to son, of the patrimony with the name, which had, at length, so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the “House of Usher” – an appellation which seemed to include, in the minds of the peasantry who used it, both the family and the family mansion. And that is why I came to you to get you to help me learn where the falcon was. They are all that remains of the greatest experiment ever conducted – to find the Ultimate Question and the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe and Everything. Most truly do I sign myself

Your increasingly and ravenously
affectionate uncle

SCREWTAPE

Here are the books I used…for curiosity’s sake:

(1) SMOKE AND MIRRORS by Neil Gaiman
(2) SELECTED POEMS AND TALES by Edgar Allan Poe
(3) THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
(4) THE ULTIMATE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE by Douglas Adams
(5) THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS by C.S. Lewis