Edit<\/strong>: In the same vein, I read an article about weird shit people ask booksellers. Thought I’d leave it here.<\/p>\nCustomer: Urgh. Shakespeare. He\u2019s everywhere, isn\u2019t he? You can\u2019t escape him. I wish he\u2019d do us all a favour and just die.<\/p>\n
Customer: I need a really awful book to give someone I hate. Any recommendations?<\/p>\n
Customer (holding up an art book): Wow, Picasso must have gone out with some really ugly women.<\/p>\n
Customer (buying a copy of Gulliver\u2019s Travels): I\u2019m thinking of going travelling, so I thought I\u2019d give this a read to give me ideas of places to go. He seems to have gone to some really crazy parts of the world!<\/p>\n
Customer (to her friend): I only like books that I can really believe happened, you know? Like Twilight.<\/p>\n
Customer: Do you have audiobooks on sign language?<\/p>\n
Customer: I don\u2019t like biographies. The main character pretty much always dies in the end.<\/p>\n
Woman (holding a copy of a WeightWatchers book in one hand and The Hunger Games \u2014 a science fiction novel \u2014 in the other): Which of these dieting books would you recommend?<\/p>\n
Customer: What book do you recommend I read when I\u2019m on the Tube to get girls to want to sleep with me?<\/p>\n
Customer: Do you have any books signed by authors who are likely to die very soon? I\u2019d like to make an investment.<\/p>\n
Customer: I\u2019m looking for that book, Romeo And Juliet. It\u2019s about a fight between the DiCaprios and another gang. <\/p>\n
Customer (eagerly): I really liked Fifty Shades Of Grey. (Pause) Do you have an illustrated version?<\/p>\n
Customer: Hi, I’m looking for a Bible for my mother but I’m not quite sure who the author is<\/p>\n
Elderly female customer: I can\u2019t believe everybody\u2019s reading this Fifty Shades\u2009…
\nBookseller: I know. I take it that it isn\u2019t your cup of tea, then?
\nCustomer: Oh, no dear. Been there, done that \u2014 no need to read about it!<\/p>\n
Customer: Hi, I\u2019m looking for a book version of my satnav.
\nBookseller: Do you mean a road map?
\nCustomer: Maybe.<\/p>\n
Customer (holding a signed copy of a Jacqueline Wilson book): I want to buy this book \u2014 but not this copy because someone\u2019s written in it.
\nBookseller: That\u2019s the author\u2019s signature!
\nCustomer: I don\u2019t care who\u2019s written in it. I just want a clean copy!<\/p>\n
Customer: Hello! I\u2019m searching for a book. I\u2019m not sure of the publisher but it\u2019s really great and I just have to read it again.
\nBookseller: Sure. What was the title of the book?
\nCustomer: Well, the thing is, I don\u2019t really remember.
\nBookseller: OK, then how about the author?
\nCustomer: I don\u2019t know his name.
\nBookseller: Right.
\nCustomer: But he was definitely European\u2026
\nBookseller: OK.
\nCustomer: It was non-fiction. Some kind of study. Probably.
\nBookseller: Right.
\nCustomer (looking expectantly at the bookseller): Come on, you must know the book I mean!<\/p>\n
Customer: Do you have the new book by Charles Dickens?
\nBookseller: Well, he hasn\u2019t published anything since the 19th century \u2026
\nCustomer: The new one that Oprah Winfrey\u2019s promoting.
\nBookseller: Oh. A Tale Of Two Cities, yes, we have that.
\nCustomer: Yeah, like I said, the new one.<\/p>\n
Customer: Will you be getting Tolkien in for a signing soon?<\/p>\n
Customer: Where in the book does it tell you how many pages there are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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