Intense Narrative Lover Gifts

'Heathcliff! Oh, Heathcliff!'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

"Nice epic battle between good and evil!"

"Siri, who’s the fairest of them all?"

". . . I called this meeting to communicate that I had dinner Noah..."

'I've had the place gob-stopper-dashed.'

"What did Jesus order?"

Three little pigs-mortgage.

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

'I said, you're supposed to be in the underworld.'

'Mummy, the review of this book was more interesting.'

Christopher Nolan caricature

'CHICK-FLICK' MALE LEAD CHARACTER ARC.

'Two pencils approach Noah's ark.'

Toni Morrison

'This definitely calls for group therapy.'

Guy on island sees giant ship in bottle.

"Tell us again — a little less graphic."

Rudy, I loved your memoir. It was fascinating. The way you overcame huge odds to invent the computer. How you went on to protect us from government surveillance. You know none of it's true. The way you swore yourself to humility. People so want to believe a good story.

'If little girls are made of sugar and spire and everything nice, where does genetics fit into the picture?'

Jonah met a strange wooden boy in the belly of the whale.

"Well, if you don’t want to discuss exposure, drowning or sharks, what do you want to talk about?"

"You know, it's a picture book. Needless to say, it doesn't have a lot of narrative scope."

'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?'

"If you ask me, you can't go wrong with this beautiful bouquet of marijuana."

'You're not Gramma! You're Wolf Blitzer!'

'Put the sword back in the stone right now, little girl, and we'll pretend this never happened.'

Great literary festival heckles.

Solemn reference is made to Mr. Bunsby

An interview with Codlin and Short

'Read me the one about the three homeless little pigs.'

'Take no notice, he was raided by wolves.'