Inside Story Seeker Mugs

These remarks are completely off the record

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

"Do you have any of those books that understand men?"

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

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

"His exercise wheel has lost all its fascination sinces he started reading Hemingway."

"Not that I have the time, but I enjoy reading."

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

"Mom, I'm bored. Do you know something I can get hysterical and panicky about?"

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

Blue Stockings

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo.

'You want a quick read? How about this one: 'Memoirs of an Amnesic'?'

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

"I'm sad to hear everybody lived happily ever after. That means no sequels to this story."

Downloads.

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

'How's this new concept? Instead of a gunfight, the hero overpowers the villian with a heartfelt homily on the sanctity of family values.'

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

Addicted to reading

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

Freedom of the press

John Barth wrote "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." That he did, little buddy. But what if a person spends most of his life watching tv, films, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc? What if my -- I mean, this person's -- life story is watching other people's life stories? Does that make other people the hero of this person's story? Sometimes I don't know where I end and Kanye begins. That'd be somewhere around Kim Kardashian.

Trueman Dewayne Lafayette: collector of the imaginary,

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"

'I suppose that's where things get ironed out.'

"I'll probably die an old woman before I get that bedtime story."

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

Technology and literature

Book Lovers in Richmond

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

"Shall we put it in play?"