Book meme

My friend, Lynn, tagged me for this book meme.



The rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages.)

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the next three sentences.

5. Tag five people.



This excerpt is from "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez:



"And Rebeca did take a casual look toward the wall and was paralyzed with stupor, barely able to react and wave good-bye to Arcadio. Arcadio answered her the same way. At that instant the smoking mouths of the rifles were aimed at him and letter by letter he heard they encyclicals that Melquiades had chanted and he heard the lost steps of Santa Sofia de la Piedad, a virgin, in the classroom, and in his nose he felt the same icy hardness that had drawn his attention in the nostrils of the corpse of Remedios."



Basically, Rebeca is watching this man Arcadio being executed by a firing squad for his participation in the Liberal party. The last run on sentence is typical of much of the book. The sentences get so long, you start to forget what you were reading about in the first place. It just makes it hard to read. I am TRYING to finish this book although I really just want to quit.



So, now I get to tag my friend, Kristine, a fellow Shelfari junkie and blogger :)