Book Meme Snagged from anorienparker

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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:

Statistics show that most mortals will sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge and love. To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. Cleander, who commanded the Praetorian guards, ordered a body of cavalry to sally forth and disperse the seditious multitude. But just then the trumpets sounded and spooked his stallion that balked at crossing. The dawn of the Daimon is here and the end of mankind is beginning.

a. Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead
b. A Pen Warmed-Up In Hell by Mark Twain in Protest
c. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon
d. Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman
e. One Silent Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon