Nobel Aficionado Gifts

'Mario Vargas Llosa'

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

Junk art/ food/ tv/ music/ amusements/ novels/ views/ life.

Treasure Island Book.

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"It's touching, actually, to see white dudes fumble around for a few last moments in the spotlight."

John Masefield.

"Knowing all the weather rock lore doesn't really count toward the weather badge."

And this one i got for properly polishing my medals.

Seamus Heaney

Books*. *Batteries not included.

Museum of Art and Science. Monet. "Claude Monet, the father of impressionism, was a master of light. He sometimes painted in series, showing the passage of time with evolving sunlight and shadows." Einstein. "Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the dual nature of light, behaving like both a wave and a particle, and how this duality explains the photoelectric effect." I love that! Even though Einstein and Monet both worked with light, the only thing their work has

Samuel Beckett

'Oh no! Political memoirs!'

Rudyard Kipling

'I'm writing a novel using our marriage as inspiration. It's called, 'This Sucks'.'

"With one hand I'm reading the past decade's most critically acclaimed novel. With my other hand I'm searching for enough negative reviews to justify my decision to abandon it."

Tess of the Dirigibles

A squirrel talks about Margaret Atwood

'Introducing one of our top salesmen despite his old age. . .'

Pam collected ceramic pigs. Just one so far, but even that seemed like too many.

Fyodor Sologub

'How about that? -- Lady Godiva got a bouffant!'

'Yeah, but would you want to have a beer with him.'

Louisa May Alcott

'Wait a minute, this guy is missing a head Oh jeez, we're totally gonna crash,'

HornyWood

Thomas Love Peacock

Ivan Bunin

A woman bows to the crowd

"Creative, imaginative, and fierce-these are just a few of the words that I'm reading off the teleprompter."

"And the Oscar for best wardrobe in a film based on a 17th century picaresque novel goes to..."

Trilby - 'I believe you, my boy!'

"Has anybody seen my old friend Nelson?"