I saw this meme on the blog Lynne's somewhat invented life, and I thought it was kind of fun.
Here are 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.

My book: Life, The Universe, and Everything, by Douglas Adams
(we started reading this forever ago, and its been sitting by the computer for quite some time.)

The sentences:
In fact it would be fair to say that he had reached a level of annoyance the like of which had never been seen in the Universe. It was an annoyance of epic proportions, a burning, searing, flame of annoyance, an annoyance that now spanned the whole of time and space in it's infinite umbrage.
And this annoyance had been given its fullest expression in the statue in the center of all this monstrosity that was a statue of Arthur Dent, and an unflattering one. Fifty feet tall if it was an inch, there was not an inch of it that wasn't crammed with insult to it's subject matter, and fifty feet of that sort of thing, would be enough to make any subject feel bad.

Yes, this author has a propensity to write very long run-on sentences, so you sometimes have to read them over again to understand what the heck is going on.
Now I'm not going to tag 5 people, but I'd love to see your take on this meme, whether its in your own blog or in the comments!