Wot ho! I've just bought a really nice old copy of 'The Name of the Rose' for a librarian friend's birthday but now really regret having to give it up. What's the best gift book you've bought and then really wanted to keep for yourself?

Egon.
(Cheesy question thread, I know. I'm sure someone will start talking about food or making fish puns soon enough.>



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/22/2008 03:46PM by EgonSpengler.

Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker

Well I once bought a book on dyslexic Skiing (Slalom) for some old trout. It was a well decorated book with scalloped edges and a good catch I thought. Netted it at an auction in an odd place, a monastery I think. It was a huge book and took some muscles to lift it, but the one that got away.... Anyhow I cod go on but I might start to flounder and I think overly long posts are shellfish anyway.

Ps. Did I see a thread about walleye around here?

All those fish puns are giving me a haddock.

As my old German teacher Herr Ring would have said: there's a plaice for these things, as long as they don't overrun your sole.

I've always regretted never reading Wizard of the Pigeons before giving it as a present ( I though it wasn't polite...)

I did the obvious thing. Presented my husband with a string of books, one after the other, that he wasn't the least bit interested in but which a) proved I spent more on him than he did on me and b) that I wanted to read. Then I divorced him.
A result two times over!

<takes notes>

<keepa note of who's keeping note and admires newly won frisbee>

Jazz_Sue,

I'm glad you did the books/divorce thing in the right order.

It would be a big mistake to get the books then discover you had acquired a spouse because he liked to read them.