Insults - Old, New, Borrowed, Blue
by Collected by John Barber
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About the Book
This is a collection of insults from the well known and famous to those gathered from closed down magazines, out of print books and a private collection of newspaper cuttings. They range from sport to politics to the arts and all other media - over 750 insults in 64 pages. They are arranged alphabetically from Dean Acheson to Frank Zappa. It makes for an ideal stocking filler or parting gift. Here are a few early reviews:
The sort of book that once put down you can't pick up again.
Sir Maurice Bowra, English literary critic
This has the style of being knocked up on a condemned typewriter in a garden shed in Wapping.
FOUL
From the moment I picked up your book till the moment I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend to read it.
Groucho Marx
This novel is not to be tossed aside lightly but to be hurled with great force.
Dorothy Parker
No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney
Alfred Emanuel Smith, American politician
We are not amused.
Queen Victoria
The sort of book that once put down you can't pick up again.
Sir Maurice Bowra, English literary critic
This has the style of being knocked up on a condemned typewriter in a garden shed in Wapping.
FOUL
From the moment I picked up your book till the moment I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend to read it.
Groucho Marx
This novel is not to be tossed aside lightly but to be hurled with great force.
Dorothy Parker
No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney
Alfred Emanuel Smith, American politician
We are not amused.
Queen Victoria
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About the Creator
John Barber
Hertford, Hertfordshire, UK
I started writing professionally in 1996 and have had hundreds of articles published in national and local magazines. Many can be found on my website. I have had a non-fiction true crime work published called The Camden Town Murder, a famous unsolved crime from 1907. I have since self published in eBook format a series of murder mysteries, anthologies and essays on local history. My writing career was interrupted when I became Town Centre Manager in my home town of Hertford. I am now retired and you can keep up with my thoughts on Hertford on my home page.