“Oh, look. They made a book out of Lord of the Rings.”
:smack:
Comments like that are why this board is necessary.
Ye gawds, but people are idiots.
Well, at least you didn’t hear that at Borders.
GRRRRR!!! I worked at B&N for a few years and that would have been the LEAST of the dumb comments I heard. When the FOTR came out, they made a huge display table of all the LOTR books. I overheard not one, but MULTIPLE people comment, “The Two Towers? Look, another WTC book! What’s it doing on the lord of the rings table?”
Many, many people swore that book had to do with September 11th.
“Mom, can’t we leave? I hate books!”
I nearly had a coronary. I know it’s not a requirement of life to like books, but my books are the dearest things I own. I couldn’t live without them.
Ava
A comment my co-worker made when he saw me reading “The Motley Fool’s Guide to Investing”
“Oh, wow, they wrote a book? I love their music!”
Yeah. At least they were in a book store, but, man. It’s like, ya know?
“Do you have that book ‘The Followship of the…Ring?’ You know. The movie.”
“Yes, we have that and we have a bunch of books that are all three books in the series…”
wide-eyed “There’s a series of 'em? WOW!”
“Has this Tolkien come out with anything new lately?”
“Noo…”
“And why not?”
“Um, he’s been dead quite a while.”
“Oh my god! When did that happen?”
“Thirty or forty years ago, I think…”
“No! Really?”
“Yep.”
Actual conversations I had with customers when I worked in a bookstore.
When my brother Mark was employed at Borders in 1992, the Daniel Day-Lewis film The Last of the Mohicans was released. Mark’s co-worker Bonnie noticed that the store had a display of several copies of James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel and observed, “I see they’ve already made a book out of the movie.”
I was about ready to ask if the OP quote was said by a B&N shopper or an worker, then I saw the LAST OF THE MOHICANS post. sigh
I had the pleasure of being behind a customer who was returning a copy of “What Color is your Parachute” (just about the most famous career guide ever written) because “it has absolutely nothing to do with skydiving, can you believe it?”. Ugh…
Kind of off-topic, but disturbing nonetheless- Apparently after the Lord of the Rings films got their noterieity, some other movies Peter Jackson directed suddenly popped up in ads.
One such movie was “Meet the Feebles”. Now, we had seen this traumatic movie before we watched LotR, but when we saw an ad for it, there was the phrase “Directed by Peter Jackson of LotR fame” or something similar. That’s horrible! People are going to buy this movie thinking “Meet the Feebles”=“Fellowship of the Ring”. Then they will be greatly traumatitized and bitch about Peter Jackson. Grr! :mad:
I was at the Borders at the WTC a few years ago and one time heard someone trying to prove the divinity of Jesus to someone else using the following logic:
:rolleyes:
Zev Steinhardt
FRIEDO!!! I just realized, you live in Queens?? The B&N I worked at was in Queens! So you may have likely heard a dumb comment in the store where I’ve heard millions of dumb comments! Amazing!
Nah, this was one was in Manhattan. (The one near Lincoln Center in fact, 66th and Broadway or therabouts.)
Just over the weekend, I heard two chippies arguing over whether the paperback edition of Bridget Jones’s Diary with Renée Zellweger on the cover was the “real” edition, or if the hardback large print edition was “real.”
Their determination: The hardback version was “real” because it had, like, a hundred more pages, whereas the paperback version had a famous actress on the cover, so it must have been based on the movie.
I had a migraine for the rest of the weekend.
LOL. I said the very same thing this weekend - but at Borders. However, I would like to point out that I was joking - I read The Hobbit when I was 12 and LOTR shortly thereafter.
True, it’s not a requirement, but I hope that mother was at least encouraging her son/daughter to read. It seems to me that saying you hate books is extremely generalized, and we all know that all generalizations are false. 
There are a lot of books I don’t like, but there’s certainly something very wrong with that child’s statement.
Yes, it is.
I regard people who don’t like to read with deep suspicion.
The people in front of me in the movie theatre when I saw LOTR were outraged at how the movie “didn’t have an ending”… “We sat through three hours for THAT?” they exclaimed. They were astounded when I said “…it’s the first movie of a three book series…”
Not quite as bad as at the bookstore but really. Shocking.