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OverviewThis is one-half of my previous book The Funniest People in Books and Music: 500 Anecdotes. This book contains 250 anecdotes about authors and books, including these: 1) The first of the two most important events in Orville Prescott's life (the other was becoming daily book critic for The New York Times in 1942) occurred when he was six years old and his Grandmother Sherwin offered him a $5 gold piece if he would learn how to read. Although he didn't quite know what a $5 gold piece was, he knew that it was desirable, and therefore, a few days later, he read a few pages out of a first grade primer to his grandmother and received his rewards-the $5 gold piece and the discovery of the joy of reading. 2) When playwright Neil Simon was a child, he told his mother that he liked chocolate pudding, so she made choco-late pudding for dessert 15 days in a row. Finally, he got tired of always eating chocolate pudding for dessert, so he said that he didn't want the pudding. His mother said, But I thought you liked it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David BrucePublisher: Independently Published Imprint: Independently Published Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.150kg ISBN: 9798563359963Pages: 104 Publication Date: 11 November 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |