Showing posts with label parody. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parody. Show all posts

Monday, July 25, 2011

Someone Call Mark Teague!


How Do Dinosaurs Use the Library?

How do dinosaurs use the library?
Do they come in boisterous, angry, or wary?
Do they stomp their way to circulation
Demanding or starting an altercation?
Do they visit the children’s room with their child
Then proceed to ignore it and let it run wild?
Do dinosaurs print off some stupid chain letter
Then leave without paying, though they ought to know better?
If a dinosaur has an overdue book
Does she sneak in and hide it in some remote nook
Then a couple days later does she harry the clerks,
Insisting they look harder and calling them jerks?
Do they think any of this works?

No, dinosaurs wouldn’t behave in that way.
They finish a book and return it next day.
They cheerfully own up that they owe a fine
And pay it all up without even a whine.
If they make a copy, they pay for it quickly.
They don’t come in sneezing and coughing and sickly.
Before coming in each dinosaur gave
Their child a brief talk on how to behave.
They write to their congressmen.  They lobby for funds.
They bring the staff cookies (well, maybe just once)!
When they’re good to us, we just want to do more.
Thank you, thank you, Dinosaur!

Thursday, May 07, 2009

And I Don't Even LIKE Zombies!

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen


My review


rating: 3 of 5 stars
This has improved Jane Austen beyond all knowing! Just before you get bogged down in the manners, zombies attack or they debate the relative qualities of Shaolin Chinese vs. Japanese martial arts. Of course, every now and then it steps over the line into being silly (taking the bite out of the heart of an enemy, for example - I mean, you're fighting zombies! You shouldn't be stooping to their level!).

I think one of the best things about the book are the discussion questions. Bwah-hahahahaaaa!

This was read on the Kindle2 - the last few chapters read by the computer generated voice that pronounced "Lady" as "laddie," "lame" as "lamé," and mangled other words beyond recognition.


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