John Barber

eBook, ePUB

Insults: Old, New, Borrowed, Blue (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Don't you wish you could always find the right words at just the right time to answer anyone who has upset you? You will find that reply in this book. It has over 750 insults from some of the wittiest, cleverest and smartest writers that have proved that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword. This book of insults has been collected from the well-known to the hardly ever heard of; from the famous to the anonymous, from newspapers and TV to long forgotten and folded magazines. Of course Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde appear but so does Raquel Welch and Frank Zappa along with Frank Warren (boxing promoter) and Violet Carson (soap actress). Naturally Queen Victoria was not amused but you might be by this huge collection that has 'the style of being knocked up on a condemned typewriter in a garden shed in Wapping'. (FOUL Magazine - long since folded). Insults have been creamed from books of quotations, the Bible, the works of Shakespeare and others such as this from a newspaper story quoting an anonymous British Rail engineer who remarked: 'Basically, they're crap'. A book to dip into, browse at random or use as a study aid before an important meeting. You will not be disappointed. Don't be like Groucho Marx: '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.'

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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.

This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.

John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.

He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords

John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 53
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466050617
• Artikelnr.: 45454843