This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice
RULES:
Grab a book, any book.
Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
Find a snippet, short and sweet.
Post it
from 56% of:
Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
“We actually encrypted a DNA sample with a Trojan-horse virus and sent it in like everybody else does. Once in, the sample was reduced to code and it activated and we were in their mainframe. Complete backdoor access to their data. I’m a second-tier buyer of their DNA. I buy it, isolate the DRD4 carriers we want, and match the serial number that comes on every sample to the flesh-and-blood bitch we then list on the site.”
(I’m a long way from this point, so I’m not sure what it’s about, but it sounds pretty cool.)
Bookstooge
Please tell me there will be a Foundling Friday today…
HCNewton
I plan on it!
allysonyj
From Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Tarzan of the Apes”, p. 56:
CLOTHES therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of MAN over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things.
HCNewton
both a cringe-worthy line and a chuckle-worthy line. (can count on Burroughs for both, sadly)
Thanks, I really liked that one!
Davida Chazan
Okay, this excerpt has totally turned me off to this book. Taking a DNA sample and putting a computer code into it? That defies everything I’ve ever learned about science. How is that at all possible? It just… NO… sorry!
HCNewton
I’m hoping context will help when I get there… Hoping.
Davida Chazan
Well… good luck with that!