Bookworm's Curiosity Gifts

The Best-Seller of 1994: The Last Taboo

'With 73 dog obedience books read between us, I think we must consider defeat.'

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

hard-boiled egg...

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

'It must be a problem of interpretation. I've read this book DOZENS of times, and I keep winding up here!'

The Da Vinci Cod

K9 Literati

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

'Of course, I'm argumentative.. I'm PRE-LAW, for goodness sake!'

Publisher. "The Laws of Motion " is a little dry for a title, Mr. Newton. How about something catchier like "When Push Comes to Shove"?

"Don't be a sentimental fool, Harker!"

Bug reading book has antennae that are lights.

Fiction. Mystery. History.

"This is the way I like it - I pretend to be asleep and he doesn't bother me."

'Are you writing my symptoms, or is that your autobiography?'

A man reading 'Beach Chairs for Dummies'

Childhood

Have you ever read Dickens, minion? No. Businessman of the Year. Armstrong Maynard. How about Upton Sinclair? John Steinbeck? Who? … Marx? Mark's what? Thank you for reminding me why I hired you, minion. Can I take my weekly lunch break today instead of Friday?

Who says religion can't have a sense of humour.

"Convicts selling novels from prison? At least that could never happen here, eh Jones?"

1,000 places to see after you die by Shirley Maclaine.

"So, you're telling me that you can't return, 'How to be a secret agent' because the final chapter instructed you to eat it after reading?"

The book is so much better than the film..

Zen and the Art of Procrastination.

'An alternative to having me psychoanalyze you is to write a book and have the critics do it.'

"I just remembered where I left my chew toy."

A man uses a reaching tool to keep a book far enough out for him to read it.

Pastoring for Dummies

"Do you have any bedtime stories that aren't about the former Yugoslavia?"

The Colonel at home.

"Poetry would be way more accessible if they just said what they meant."

Cat Gag Gifts

"No, no, that's my copy of 'Being and Time'—look at the teeth marks along 'Heidegger'."

'Let's face it, we've been getting desperate for new titles.'