Because It Also Looked Like Fun...

Stolen from kittycallum, for the obvious reason that it seemed vastly entertaining.

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

A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the dull green undergrowth of conifers and ferns that bound the edges of mudflats and riverbeds. Instead, after wrangling with accelerated motion such as the spinning bucket, Newton saw no option but to invoke some invisible background stuff with respect to which motion could be unambiguously defined. What we do know is that, after the armistice, when he returned to Hay to pick up the threads of his life, the little solicitor was not a happy man. So what are you doing working for someone like this Tansy guy? Then we shall be at peace with Heaven and with ourselves, both during our sojourn here and when, like victors in the Games collecting gifts from their friends, we receive the prize of justice; and so, not here only, but in the journey of a thousand years of which I have told you, we shall fare well.

I thought it started rather well, before taking an utterly bizarre turn...

Books used:

1. Raptor Red (Robert T. Bakker)
2. The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene)
3. The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI (Colin Evans)
4. The War of the Flowers (Tad Williams)
5. The Republic of Plato (Francis Macdonald Cornford translation)