Rating: 3/5
Review:
Quite amusing in short sections
I read this after a recommendation in Shaun Bythell’s excellent The
Diary Of A Bookseller. I quite enjoyed it but I was left just a
little disappointed.
The book is a collection of odd, silly or offensive things people have said in bookshops. That’s it; there is none of the scene-setting or development of Bythell’s Diary, which leaves it a bit like a sort of bibliographical version of those Humorous Things Schoolchildren Have Written collections. It’s fine to dip into, but reading more than a few in a row can get a bit wearing, I found. I also wondered about the exact verisimilitude of some of the exchanges and whether some had been touched up a bit in retrospect to make them funnier.
This is fine as a short, dip-into collection, but for me it wasn’t that special.
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