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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9771274" data-attributes="member: 508">The one time I hurled a book across the room was quite involuntary.  I was a teenager, reading a scary novel in bed.  My bed was situated halfway along the wall, with a floor lamp behind the headboard that was pointed over the headboard my way, which gave me much more light to read by than the overhead light, which was off.  The book was about these little monsters creeping about in an old house, and I was at a part in the novel when they were approaching someone unaware of their presence, who was asleep in bed (and about to become their next victim).  The little monsters were right about to strike...when the lightbulb suddenly burned out of my floor lamp.I flinched like a madman, sending the book flying up over my head and across the room as I gave a shriek that would no doubt make a little girl proud.  Then I slid off the bed and crawled over to the light switch to turn on the overhead light, so I could find my book (and figure out what page I was on when it took its sudden aerial trip).  I don't think I got any more reading done that night.Johnathan</blockquote>