Bestseller Buff Gifts

'Like to read, huh? Me, too. I'm a big reader. I just finished a book by Brown. You know Dan Brown? Great writer...'

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

This is Lenny the leopard with the on-the-spot news.

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

German Expressionist Breakfast

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

John Bunyan

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

If nobody had invented graphics

Audio Books

Before the Internet

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Igor hesitated - "You give me that silly old brain, and i'll give you these magic beans!"

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

"And the letterbox version, how does that make you feel."

US v.s. Tech Giants

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

'Have you no common scents?!'

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

Myths and legends...

Moby Dick

Stuff: You Don't Really Need But Still Don't Have.

'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

Of Mice and Men.