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Doorstopper/Quotes
"On the other hand, there were proper ways of entering a library. He waddled over to the shelves and selected Humptulip's seminal work How to Kille Insects. All 2,000 pages of it."
"...there is an ever-increasing body of opinion which holds that the Ultra-Complete Maximegalon Dictionary is not worth the fleet of lorries it takes to cart its microstored edition around in."
"No wonder the Fantasy section has reinforced shelving."
The Lord of the Rings is three books long, and each book is as long as three books!—Marco, Animorphs
"A big book is a big evil."—Callimachus, poet and catalogue writer of the Library of Alexandria
I do not know how successful "The Kindly Ones" was, how close I got or how far I came from what I set out to say. Still, it's the heaviest of all of these volumes, and thus, in hardback at least, could undoubtedly be used to stun a burglar; which has always been my definition of real art.
How long is this one? Because I've promised to read the whole thing to my son. I read him the last one, Harry Potter and the Structurally Reinforced Bedside Table.—Hugh Dennis, Mock the Week.
"I like a thick book because it will steady a table, a leather volume to strop a razor and a heavy book to throw at the cat."
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