{"product_id":"2940011389030","title":"Insults: Old, New, Borrowed, Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome early reviews that appear in this book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sort of book that once put down you can't pick up again.\u003cbr\u003eSir Maurice Bowra, English literary critic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou're going to like this.....not a lot.\u003cbr\u003ePaul Daniels, magician\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf books can be said to smell; this one smells of stale beds and damp sheets.\u003cbr\u003eEamon Dunphy, Millwall footballer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis has the style of being knocked up on a condemned typewriter in a garden shed in Wapping.\u003cbr\u003eFOUL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003eGroucho Marx\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading isn't an occupation we like to encourage amongst police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.\u003cbr\u003eJoe Orton, English dramatist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel is not to be tossed aside lightly but to be hurled with great force.\u003cbr\u003eDorothy Parker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts writers are still busy exhibiting their overblown egos and display as ever a talent for expressing commonplace notions with monumental verbosity.\u003cbr\u003eG R Perkin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI do not claim to be a literary critic but I know dirt when I smell it and here it is in heaps - festering putrid heaps which smell to high heaven.\u003cbr\u003eW Charles Pilley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney\u003cbr\u003eAlfred Emanuel Smith, American politician\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are not amused.\u003cbr\u003eQueen Victoria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike German opera. Too long and too loud.\u003cbr\u003eEvelyn Waugh\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Barber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068605612272,"sku":"2940011389030","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011389030_p0.jpg?v=1763942790","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011389030","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}