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Funny stories about books

theoptimist

theoptimist

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Does anyone have any humorous stories that are book related?

I'll start us off:

Whilst on my lunch break at work I like to sit and read at my desk, one particular lunch hour my colleage (who i share an office with) walked in with a Waterstones bag, I just had to ask what she had brought! She said she'd brought 'The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown' (quite disappointed with her choice) she pulled it out of the bag to show me and she had only gone and brought 'The Da Vinci Cod - Don Brine' (the parody) as soon as i saw how thin it was i wondered 'what the hell is that?!". When i saw it I couldn't help but burst out laughing, luckily she also found it amusing.

So share your stories so we can all have a little giggle at them . . .
 
LOL! That's a good one! I have loads of bookrelated stories, working in a bookstore and all, we actually have a book where we write down funny things that happen and stupid things people say. Yes, that's mean, but it's also very funny! The funniest part of that is that the book we write in was a defective copy - all blank pages - of "The world most stupid quotes" :D

Anyway, we have an ongoing theme we like to call "A rose by any other name" where we write down variations of booktitles/Authors that people ask for. Here are a few examples:

The Copernicus Cipher (The Da Vinci Code)
Mikel Krusidull (Michael Connelly)
Dr Feel Good (Dr Phil)
The Ladies' Orchestra (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
"That book about Jesus" (The Da Vinci Code again)

:D
 
LOL. Well, I have one that's more amusing than funny. I was reading the first book in the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures. I didn't think much of it when I forked over the cash for it at the store. But when I brought it to school, everyone was giggling. Finally one girl (who had a Gossip Girl book on her lap) asked me if I was reading porn. I said no, and then I looked down and realized that the cover had a naked woman's stomach on it. That combined with the title certainly made it appear I was reading porn.
Later that night, I left it out in the living room, and my mother found it. She was waving it around going, "William! Look what your daughter is reading!" I was so freaked out because I thought I'd be in trouble, but I never heard any other complaints about it from either of my parents.
 
theoptimist said:
Whilst on my lunch break at work I like to sit and read at my desk, one particular lunch hour my colleage (who i share an office with) walked in with a Waterstones bag, I just had to ask what she had brought! She said she'd brought 'The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown' (quite disappointed with her choice) she pulled it out of the bag to show me and she had only gone and brought 'The Da Vinci Cod - Don Brine' (the parody) as soon as i saw how thin it was i wondered 'what the hell is that?!". When i saw it I couldn't help but burst out laughing, luckily she also found it amusing.
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Does this not sum up the intelligence of the average The Da Vinci Code reader? And I use the term reader loosely.
 
ValkyrieRaven88 said:
LOL. Well, I have one that's more amusing than funny. I was reading the first book in the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures. I didn't think much of it when I forked over the cash for it at the store. But when I brought it to school, everyone was giggling. Finally one girl (who had a Gossip Girl book on her lap) asked me if I was reading porn. I said no, and then I looked down and realized that the cover had a naked woman's stomach on it. That combined with the title certainly made it appear I was reading porn.
Later that night, I left it out in the living room, and my mother found it. She was waving it around going, "William! Look what your daughter is reading!" I was so freaked out because I thought I'd be in trouble, but I never heard any other complaints about it from either of my parents.
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I like that story, once saw a girl on the tram traying to cover up her book the best she could: Porno :p
 
i read the da vinci code, lol, i liked it, as a read so far as to say, i read lotr.

fiction, like,

he he , i like the book of quotes!

funnyest story i can think of, would be *most recent* a guy in a book shop, the seller person ;) well he seen be before, often never really had a conversation, anyways he held up a copy of some new book *forgets title* and jsut smiles and is like, "eh eh " so im like, ah ha, yes... and he's there, eh eh-in away, just to get me to buy the book.

i didn't , i bough an old one instead ;)
 
The only story about a book I can think of at the moment is about a school textbook...

A couple of my friends and I were out walking by a river one day after school (near the end of term just before summer) and one of them starts looking in his bag for something. He pulls out his chemistry textbook and says "Well, I don't need this anymore" and throws it in the river. A few seconds later someone else tells him "Don't you need to return that?" and he just stared blankly before running after the rapidly floating away textbook (without success).

Maybe it was one of those funnier-at-the-time moments...
 
Bosco said:
i read the da vinci code, lol, i liked it, as a read so far as to say, i read lotr.

fiction, like,

he he , i like the book of quotes!

funnyest story i can think of, would be *most recent* a guy in a book shop, the seller person ;) well he seen be before, often never really had a conversation, anyways he held up a copy of some new book *forgets title* and jsut smiles and is like, "eh eh " so im like, ah ha, yes... and he's there, eh eh-in away, just to get me to buy the book.

i didn't , i bough an old one instead ;)
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Well . . . That made sense.
 
tartan_skirt said:
The only story about a book I can think of at the moment is about a school textbook...

A couple of my friends and I were out walking by a river one day after school (near the end of term just before summer) and one of them starts looking in his bag for something. He pulls out his chemistry textbook and says "Well, I don't need this anymore" and throws it in the river. A few seconds later someone else tells him "Don't you need to return that?" and he just stared blankly before running after the rapidly floating away textbook (without success).

Maybe it was one of those funnier-at-the-time moments...
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Haha :D This is the best one yet!
 
tartan_skirt said:
The only story about a book I can think of at the moment is about a school textbook...

A couple of my friends and I were out walking by a river one day after school (near the end of term just before summer) and one of them starts looking in his bag for something. He pulls out his chemistry textbook and says "Well, I don't need this anymore" and throws it in the river. A few seconds later someone else tells him "Don't you need to return that?" and he just stared blankly before running after the rapidly floating away textbook (without success).

Maybe it was one of those funnier-at-the-time moments...
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XD. I wanna do that with my chemistry book right about now!
 
Last week, I was sitting in a pub that's styled to look British, complete with shelves holding lots of different props such as pictures of old cricket teams, oars from rowing matches, beer glasses, signs saying "No dogs or mother-in-laws allowed" etc. A couple of seats away from me a man is sitting reading a huge leather-bound book as he drinks his pint of bitter. He eventually finishes the beer, goes up to the bar to pay, and then leaves the premises - with the old and possibly valuable book still on the table. The bartender sees this and bolts through the room, bangs on the window to get the man's attention as he passes on the street outside and tries to gesture "Hey! Buddy! You forgot your book!" I don't see what the guy replies, but the bartender turns back and very sheepishly puts the book back on the shelf above the bar, where I'm guessing it's probably been sitting since the pub owner bought it at a yard sale 10 years ago. Apparently, it was the first time ever a guest had actually read one of the props...
 
I have two.

Last week I went into the book store just to browse while mum was buying something next door. (I had noooo cash, only an eftpos card which had my SAVINGS money on it.)
The most gorgous guy EVER who works there came up and asked if I needed any help. I asked about the first author that popped into my head. Ten minutes later, I was buying four books....
Cute people shouldnt be allowed to work in book stores!

This one was hilarious. I was at borders and as I was walking out, i saw a book on the new releases stand that I had been waiting for for MONTHS AND MONTHS!!! I just paused and gasped (extremely loudly) just staring at it for a longgggg time. I look up and the guy who works there is like "ummm, are you alright?"
It was hilarious. I explained about the book and he understood. hehe

Lani
 
My dh and I went to the same high school, and we had way too much time to kill during the lunch hour. Once he and a friend walked up to me and a bunch of my friends and he asked to borrow my Spanish book. We were in the back hallway near an interior courtyard, surrounded by classrooms. There was only one door into the area.. Anyway, I handed him the book and he took it into this courtyard and set it on a table and walked back inside. When I went to retrieve my book, I found I was locked inside the stupid courtyard and everyone was laughing at me. Someone finally took pity and let me back in just in time to get to class. To this day, my dh can not recall that incident! He says they pulled that prank on so many kids, he can't possibly remember MY case:rolleyes:
 
beer good said:
Last week, I was sitting in a pub that's styled to look British, complete with shelves holding lots of different props such as pictures of old cricket teams, oars from rowing matches, beer glasses, signs saying "No dogs or mother-in-laws allowed" etc. A couple of seats away from me a man is sitting reading a huge leather-bound book as he drinks his pint of bitter. He eventually finishes the beer, goes up to the bar to pay, and then leaves the premises - with the old and possibly valuable book still on the table. The bartender sees this and bolts through the room, bangs on the window to get the man's attention as he passes on the street outside and tries to gesture "Hey! Buddy! You forgot your book!" I don't see what the guy replies, but the bartender turns back and very sheepishly puts the book back on the shelf above the bar, where I'm guessing it's probably been sitting since the pub owner bought it at a yard sale 10 years ago. Apparently, it was the first time ever a guest had actually read one of the props...
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LOL. My cousin owns a (haunted) beauty shop, and she has a row of bookshelves. Mostly it's old, crappy, hand-me-down romance novels that the old ladies like to read. I occasionally borrow one that looks interesting, but I never seem to remember to return them. (Not that she cares...) Never seem to finish reading them either! ^^
 
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