{"product_id":"book-of-book-jokes","title":"Book Of Book Jokes","description":"How many crime writers does it take to change a light bulb?\u003cbr\u003e A. Two. One to screw it most of the way in, and the other to give it an astonishing twist at the end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I slipped over in the library this morning. It was the non-friction section.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peter: What are you doing in that wardrobe?\u003cbr\u003e Lucy: Narnia business\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoke books have a long publishing history dating back to the ‘Philogelos’ from ancient Greece and ‘Facetiae’ of the 15th century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But while there are themed joke books on everything from cats to lawyers, there have surprisingly been few with a literary theme.\u003ci\u003e The Book of Book Jokes \u003c\/i\u003eincludes a huge range of comic material concentrating exclusively on the themes of books, reading, libraries, bookshops, and the literary life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As well as one-liners, puns, knock-knock jokes, and shaggy dog stories, it will feature sections including gravestones, book titles, jokes in acknowledgements\/ copyright\/index pages, literary hoaxes, literary snark, and authors’ in-jokes in novels, as well as sections such as Charles Dickens’s humorous fake book decorations. It will also feature the favorite jokes of well-known writers, and a selection of literary cartoons.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313960526206,"sku":"NW9780712354516","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780712354516.jpg?v=1778551133","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/book-of-book-jokes","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}