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| Title | : | Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops #1) |
| Author | : | Jen Campbell |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 119 pages |
| Published | : | April 5th 2012 by Constable and Robinson |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Humor. Writing. Books About Books. Comedy. Adult. Contemporary. Literature. 21st Century |
Jen Campbell
Hardcover | Pages: 119 pages Rating: 3.8 | 21214 Users | 4356 Reviews
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This Sunday Times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'Can books conduct electricity?''My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?'
A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops' blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor.
From 'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?' to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year's weather; and from 'I've forgotten my glasses, please read me the first chapter' to 'Excuse me... is this book edible?: here is a book for heroic booksellers and booklovers everywhere.
This full-length collection illustrated by the Brothers McLeod also includes top 'Weird Things' from bookshops around the world.
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| Original Title: | Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops |
| ISBN: | 1780334834 (ISBN13: 9781780334837) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Humor (2012) |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 21214 Users | 4356 ReviewsColumn Epithetical Books Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops #1)
another fantastic gift from laima.years ago, i read Overheard at the Bookstore, and since i was new in the bookstore career, i laughed appreciatively. now that i have been employed here for what seems to be more than half of my life, my laughter towards this latest book is fueled by a sort of desperate recognition and tinged with melancholy. oh, my bookstore sisters and brothers, come to my sweet embrace. i was going to start a section in my writing for my tales from the stacks, but instead, iHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.This was freaking funny, guys, flipping hilarious. It's, very simply, a collection of ridiculous things that customers say in bookshops, but it made me giggle and lol and just, the roflcopter flew while reading this.
Customer: Do you have a true crime section?Bookseller: Yes (takes customer to section)a few minutes later customer moves to the front door with a book in his pocketBookseller: Are you going to pay for that book?Customer: NoBookseller: (takes book from customers pocket) Please don't come backCustomer: Does this mean I have to bring back all of the other books I've taken?Bookseller:...Customer: Do you sell mobile phone top up cards?Bookseller: No, we're a bookshop, we only sell booksCustomer: Not
VAROVÁNÍ: nečtěte tuhle knihu, pokud se nechcete zasmát. hodněkrát. nahlas.CUSTOMER (having read the blurb to Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief aloud to his son): Excuse me, is this book based on a true story?BOOKSELLER: Its about an American teenager discovering hes the son of Poseidon by accidentally vaporising his maths teacher.CUSTOMER: Yes.BOOKSELLER: So, no.CUSTOMER: Do you have this childrens book Ive heard about? Its supposed to be very good. Its called Lionel Richie and the
From Faulkner to this. I read everything. Well, almost everything. But lately, I've been enjoying these hilarious little gems. I fell in love with Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops only by looking at the cover (I just confessed I judged a book by its cover, again). I mean, Do you have any books by Jane Eyre? I knew this one was going to be a funny read. I love humor. It is an essential part of life that helps you bond with people (or avoid people), recover from difficult times, see life
Its amazing how little non-readers know about the world of fiction. And its amazing how so many people can go their entire lives only having read the books they studied in mandatory education. I just dont get it. The things these people miss out on. Some of these people wondered into the bookshops Jen Cambell worked at and asked some rather stupid things. Some of my personal favourites are: "Where's your true fiction section?" (Isn't that an oxymoron?) "Do you have anything written by Jane
Do you have the childrens book Ive heard about? Its supposed to be very good. Its called, Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe.I laughed out loud so many times reading this book.Some of the questions these bookshop employees were asked were so shocking it made me wonder, not for the first time, how some people manage.Or as my husband often says to me (out of earshot) of our know-it-all son who is often found loudly proclaiming misinformation, How does he not fall over more?
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