Tell me what you read and I will tell you who you are

Today, my friend Brittany published an interesting post, which started with these instructions:

1.] grab the nearest book.
2.] open the book to page 23.
3.] find the fifth sentence.
4.] post the text of the next three sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5.] don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! i know you were thinking about it! just pick up whatever is closest.
6.] tag five other people to do the same.

Ok, then. Here is an excerpt from my closest book:

"What is ORM? In nutshell, object/relational mapping is the automated (and transparent) persistence of objects in Java application to the tables in a relational database, using metadata that describes the mapping between the objects and the database. ORM, in essence, works by (reversibly) transforming data from one representation to another."

The excerpt is from Hibernate in Action by Christian Bauer and Gavin King. This book has been on my desk for a year and it will probably stay there for some time as I use it for my work. I have to look in it every once in a while to find some information regarding to a tool we use in our application. It is an excellent reads, but if you aren't a software developer, you won't enjoy it too much.

I like the excerpt from Brittany's book, so take a look at her goethewannabe's Xanga site. And of course, don't forget to publish 3 sentences from your book!