From
the Publisher
For sitters and thinkers........
‘There are many here among us who feel that life
is but a joke’. You might recognise that as a quote
from Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower, but who
said ‘The role of a mother is to deliver children
obstetrically once and by car forever after’ or
‘Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender
look which becomes a habit’?*
You might find answers to those in a dictionary of quotations,
but what if somebody asked you over dinner about some
of the most famous books in history, which you just never
got around to reading … Paradise Lost, Lord of the
Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, Macbeth or even 1984? Would
you admit total ignorance or would you try to bluff your
way through?
Now you don’t have to do either. A must-have
book called Passing Time In The Loo gives you all this
information and plenty more besides. As well as including
two-page summaries of these works and more than 115
others, it has brief biographies of religious and political
leaders, scientists, healers, artists and explorers.
There is also a Word Power section designed to expand
anybody’s vocabulary and many witty and wise anecdotes
that will amuse and educate at the same time.
Designed so the reader can dip in and out at whim,
picking up easily-absorbed snippets of information without
ever feeling bogged down with too much data, Passing
Time In The Loo [of course, it can be read anywhere-not
only in the loo] also includes sections on health and
fitness, personal effectiveness and even foreign words
and phrases.
The only question is- 'Will you have time to read it
ALL in the loo?'
(*:Peter de Vries and Peter Ustinov).
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