Manly Man books for Manly Dads.
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“I know authors who write about something other than the SAS, Nazis and the Roman Empire, and they’re all cowards.”
@Nickiquote Sure thing, Garth.
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Manly Man books for Manly Dads.
@Nickiquote to be fair, I'm a dad and I thought Robert Harris' Pompeii was excellent. Most of the rest looks...meh
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Manly Man books for Manly Dads.
@Nickiquote rather watch Such Brave Girls again personally.
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Manly Man books for Manly Dads.
@Nickiquote stick a few copies of ‘Strong Female Character’ in there.
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@Nickiquote Unfortunately someone's sneaked a book by a female author on to the top shelf there, so the whole lot will have to be burned.
@eleanorrees don’t worry, it’s got violence in the title so all good
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Manly Man books for Manly Dads.
Four of these books have a quote by Lee Child on the front cover. Four.
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@JackTheCat Not at this time of night, although I have just had a banana as part of a fruit salad.
@Nickiquote The Loneliness Of The Sa(la)d Banana Man. Sliced?
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“I know authors who write about something other than the SAS, Nazis and the Roman Empire, and they’re all cowards.”
@Nickiquote That only leaves James Patterson.
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Four of these books have a quote by Lee Child on the front cover. Four.
@Nickiquote Says it all.
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Manly Man books for Manly Dads.
@Nickiquote yikes
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@eleanorrees Unclean!
This reminds me of the twenty minutes I once wasted in Waterstones in the run-up to Xmas, moving books between the "gifts for him" and "gifts for her" displays
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@Nickiquote to be fair, I'm a dad and I thought Robert Harris' Pompeii was excellent. Most of the rest looks...meh
@glaringanomaly Haha, I’ve actually read that one too. It was a long while ago though. It came out 23 years ago.
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@Nickiquote The Loneliness Of The Sa(la)d Banana Man. Sliced?
@JackTheCat Of course, I’m not an animal.
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@Nickiquote That only leaves James Patterson.
@MiaMarkTwo James Patterson doesn’t appear on this stand but I did note that there were loads of James Patterson (branded) books in the normal books section.
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@Nickiquote stick a few copies of ‘Strong Female Character’ in there.
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@JackTheCat Of course, I’m not an animal.
"I'm not a freak, you know!"
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This reminds me of the twenty minutes I once wasted in Waterstones in the run-up to Xmas, moving books between the "gifts for him" and "gifts for her" displays
@regordane @Nickiquote I salute you.
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Manly Man books for Manly Dads.
I find it mildly reassuring that with space for 20 titles, they only managed to find 18 so had to show two of them twice
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This reminds me of the twenty minutes I once wasted in Waterstones in the run-up to Xmas, moving books between the "gifts for him" and "gifts for her" displays
@regordane @Nickiquote @eleanorrees
"wasted"???
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@glaringanomaly Haha, I’ve actually read that one too. It was a long while ago though. It came out 23 years ago.
Yeah I haven't read that, but I would. And the Bernard Cornwell too, probably. Both are good writers
