talking books
or how a conversation about PG Wodehouse can wind up somewhere unexpected...
wytch:
i believe my first exposure was a Jeeves book swiped from the shelf of
a holiday cottage; i must've been quite young since i remember being
scared by the cover of The Ka of Gifford Hilary!
...
chum:
yeah, i remember a youthful holiday in north yorkshire which was in a
cottage filled with lurid seventies crime paperbacks..
mum and dad hid them in the coal bunker for the week because i had a nightmare... so i sympathise.
...
wytch:
now that would make a good radio play! LOL
or maybe if the parents hid themselves...
"Now we're not coming out till you calm down."
"But mummy - the man's head is a badminton racket!"
or if the books did!
Book One: "It's the same every bloody school holiday."
Book Two: "Oh i know, my pages are practically worn out; i'm prematurely yellowed that's what i am!"
Book Three: "Well, maybe you deserve it - why HAVE you got a dismembered child's doll on your cover?"
Book Two: "I should cocoa! There isn't even one in me story!"
Book Three: "Anyway it's not like we asked to be so... vulgar."
Book One: "One man's page turner is another man's turn off."
Book Two: "Ooh get you being all profound."
Book One: "Can't help it, the curse of being of a quick lit guide!"
Book Two: "But there's a vicar and a naked lady on you!"
Book One: "Quite. So it goes..."
Book Two: "Well i'm all for a break out - we should stuff' em - reclaim our shelves i say!"
Book Three: "Steady dear, your erratum slip is showing."
Book Two: "Oh shut yer face! What are you supposed to be anyway? One of Orton's lesser library efforts were we eh? Eh?"
Book One: "Don't mind that one, she can't help it. She's not deliberately nasty just... hardback-ed."
Book Two: "Well she should try being a bit more... i don't know, loose leafed."
Book Three: "I'm not a cup of tea you know!"
etc.
well - it made me chuckle at anyrate....
wytch:
i believe my first exposure was a Jeeves book swiped from the shelf of
a holiday cottage; i must've been quite young since i remember being
scared by the cover of The Ka of Gifford Hilary!
...
chum:
yeah, i remember a youthful holiday in north yorkshire which was in a
cottage filled with lurid seventies crime paperbacks..
mum and dad hid them in the coal bunker for the week because i had a nightmare... so i sympathise.
...
wytch:
now that would make a good radio play! LOL
or maybe if the parents hid themselves...
"Now we're not coming out till you calm down."
"But mummy - the man's head is a badminton racket!"
or if the books did!
Book One: "It's the same every bloody school holiday."
Book Two: "Oh i know, my pages are practically worn out; i'm prematurely yellowed that's what i am!"
Book Three: "Well, maybe you deserve it - why HAVE you got a dismembered child's doll on your cover?"
Book Two: "I should cocoa! There isn't even one in me story!"
Book Three: "Anyway it's not like we asked to be so... vulgar."
Book One: "One man's page turner is another man's turn off."
Book Two: "Ooh get you being all profound."
Book One: "Can't help it, the curse of being of a quick lit guide!"
Book Two: "But there's a vicar and a naked lady on you!"
Book One: "Quite. So it goes..."
Book Two: "Well i'm all for a break out - we should stuff' em - reclaim our shelves i say!"
Book Three: "Steady dear, your erratum slip is showing."
Book Two: "Oh shut yer face! What are you supposed to be anyway? One of Orton's lesser library efforts were we eh? Eh?"
Book One: "Don't mind that one, she can't help it. She's not deliberately nasty just... hardback-ed."
Book Two: "Well she should try being a bit more... i don't know, loose leafed."
Book Three: "I'm not a cup of tea you know!"
etc.
well - it made me chuckle at anyrate....