Storyline Seekers Gifts

No one will be seated after this comic strip has begun. Please do not reveal the shocking plot twist to your friends. This evening is not going to end well, Lance. Spoiler alert. (This cartoon was originally published on 2010-09-01).

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

"I remember when the death of the hero meant the end of the sequels. Now it marks the beginning of the prequels."

"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.

"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!'

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

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo.

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

'Sue didn't watch soap operas all the time. She also reads books'

Addicted to reading

Downloads.

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

"Regarding the plot of your novel ... what on earth were you thinking?"

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

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

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

Freedom of the press

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

Trueman Dewayne Lafayette: collector of the imaginary,

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

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.

Book Lovers in Richmond

"Just our luck. We finally see the 'feel good' movie of the year and it's December."

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

Technology and literature

Diet Books: Fiction/Non-Fiction

Gabriel Garcia Marquez