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Cargando... Scouts in Bondage: And Other Violations of Literary Propriety (2006 original; edición 2007)por Michael Bell (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book think it's a whole lot funnier than it is. It's also possible it's getting laughs based on outdated slang I'm not familiar with. I think page 44 was the only one I got a good chuckle out of. That said, it also took me maybe five minutes to read, so it's got that going for it. ( ) One need not carve out a great deal of time for this slight browse, which presents a choice of book covers (and a few excerpts) from a bookshop which contains a subcollection of books with amusing titles, often double-entendres, or, less often, odd resonances in the juxtaposition of author and title. Some are amusing, some are headscratchers, and many, I suspect, are decipherable only to those with a working knowledge of British slang; I caught a few. It's a pleasant enough browse; I'd allow twenty minutes. A collection of book covers with double entendres. Some are funny, but most of them are very weak and far-fetched, and I must confess that for a few of them I don't get what the double entendre is supposed to be. The full-colour illustrations are a nice touch, but in this genre I would rather recommend Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities by Russell Ash and Brian Lake. Michael Bell, an antiquarian book dealer from Lewes, England, presents fifty vintage books whose titles and content will either puzzle or amuse the contemporary reader. Here are double-entendres aplenty, from the titular Scouts in Bondage by Geoffrey Prout, to older children's novels such as Bertram Smith's Totty: The Truth about Ten Mysterious Terms and Bessie Marchant's How Nell Scored. Here too are the unintentionally hilarious non-fiction titles, like Stephen J. Williams' Welsh in a Week or Clare Goslett's Simple Hints for Mothers on the Home Sex-Training of Boys. Good for a laugh, Scouts in Bondage and Other Literary Improprieties is a slim little book, and can be "read" in less than half-an-hour. Almost entirely given over to images, the reader will enjoy paging through, alternating between puzzled head-scratching and helpless giggling. Those who collect and read vintage children's books will probably find this little collection particularly amusing. This was probably more entertaining at its genesis as a series of shop window displays over time. In that setting, the double entendres and shifts in meaning would have seemed serendipitously found and wittily presented. As a collection of book covers, however, the humor quickly wears thin. This would best be read by placing the book on a stand and turning only one page a day for view. Like dessert, too much at once ceases to be a pleasure. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
All the books illustrated in this little volume were collected by Michael Bell when he owned an antiquarian bookshop in Lewes. His criterion was simple: these were old books that raised a grin if not a guffaw from his customers as soon as they saw them. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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