A laugh a minute..
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This is a gorgeous, hilarious book, and right on the money, as anyone involved in the literary scene will tell you! The pomposities, pretensions and pettiness of the industry are perfectly punctured, but there's also a great sympathy with characters and dilemmas. Highly recommended!
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hilarious - and all too true
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If you are a writer or have any ambitions to be published, then you have to read this book. Posy Simmonds' cartoons are always funny, but in Literary Life she turns her sharp eyes on the publishing industry. I've read and re-read this book many times and each time it makes me laugh because it's all true. Everything in an author's life is here - disastrous book signings, the perils of success, day time television and other displacement activities. I wish she'd bring out another collection.
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Literally brilliant
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Posy punctures the pomposity, pretensions and preciousness of the literary world in this brilliant collection of cartoons from the Guardian newspaper. It may be a slim collection but it's worth every penny. Posy depicts a whole gallery of characters in this business; being a children's author/illustrator herself she must have a lot insider information about the subject. The artwork, as ever with Posy, is first-rate and the humour is spot-on and imaginative. One of the best strips in it is the 'Ask Doctor Derek' series where problems encoutered by readers and authors are dealt with by the handsome literary doctor. Very funny. My advice is simple. If you like cartoons and appreciate intelligent and thoughtful wit, buy this book.
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Publishing funnies
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A handsome selection of Posy Simmonds cartoons that originally appeared in the weekly book review supplement of the Guardian. They all relate to literature and especially publishing, either as strips or whole page cartoons. My favorites are the strips for Ask Doctor Derek, where a handsome young MD solves medical (literary) problems like a bout of plagiarism, the incredibly contagious writers cliché or dreadful critics mauling syndrome. Simmonds drawing style is typically British, slightly soft and with a caricature edge as opposed to the slick graphic style of Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury for instance.
Posy has a wicked sense of humor, especially when she is exposing the phonies of the English publishing establishment. A bull's-eye every time and great fun, too.
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