Thursday, February 25, 2010

I Was Trying to Review the Classic Don't (by Censor) on Goodreads...

But I couldn't find it.

This was brought out in a little facsimile edition (a squarish book smaller than a slice of bread) by Pryor Publications.

Pryor specializes in reissues of old, odd little books.

The head sentence of every paragraph in this book begins with the word "Don't." And most of the other sentences in each paragraph begin with "Don't" also.

It's an etiquette book which is delightfully dated and ridiculously overbearing.

It's a finger in your face from beginning to end, wagging endlessly.

It was compiled by an individual prescribing and proscribing under the apt nom de plume CENSOR. (Or is that nom de guerre? When you get a whiff of the book's tone, you might wonder.)

If you want to see the other outre books in their impressive catalogue, go here.

My fingers itch to purchase a few of these.

But of course I can find them secondhand much cheaper.

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