Book Meme

I was tagged by Carmen for book Meme

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl

The rules:
Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people.

The book: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

A tidal wave of nausea was starting to flood my stomach and there was nothing I could do to stop it.  It was like black seawater overtaking a crimson Titanic stateroom, as recounted in one of Dad's favorite autobiographies of all time, the gripping eyewitness account Black In My Mind, Yellow in My Legs (1943) by Herbert J.D. Lascowitz, who finally, in his ninety-seventh year, came clean about his Machiavellian behavior aboard the legendary ocean liner, admitting he strangled an unidentified woman, stripped her body, donned her clothes in order to pretend he was a woman with child, thereby securing a choice spot for himself on one of two remaining lifeboats.  I tried to roll over and stand, but the carpet and the couch swerved upward and then, as shocking as lightening striking inches from my shoes, I was sick: cartoonishly sick all over the table and the carpet and the paisley couch by the fireplace and Jade's black leather Dior sandals, even on on the coffee-table book, 'Thank God for the Telephoto Lens: Backyard Photos of the Stars' (Miller, 2002).

Holy gosh! I didn't realize how long some of the sentences in this book are.  Special Topics in Calamity Physics is quite possibly the worst book in the world for making your to-be-read list triple in size every time you read it.  I'm curious about how it was written.  Has Pessl seriously read all of the books referenced?  Did she just search for things that would be relevant?  Did she write the book first, then go back and add references, then get everyone she knows to read it and try to find books that could be added to reference?

Anyways, I don't think there is anyone left to tag in this (at least no one in the book club left), so umm I tag anyone who reads this and hasn't done it yet.