What!
Indifferent_Jackdaw
So disappointing.
It's such a small thing isn't it and yet it speaks volumes.
That is so terrible.
I watched Battlefield Earth in the cinema and I'm still angry about it. Didn't have a clue about L Ron Hubbard and scientology angle, just thought John Travolta had made a Sci-fi movie.
Yeah, we have spent years honing the knowledge and skill which is buying books for ourselves and those amateur's think they can spend five minutes in a bookshop and come out with the goods. I stuck it out for years and then I begged them to stop and they did.
The carrot cake thing is a douchebag move. But at least your Dad bought a cake. It wouldn't even have occurred to my father. My mother was the definition of a married single mom.
John Boyne, what a shitehawke.
I hate candles too, but because I witnessed a candle fire once, the apartment (not mine) went from fine to gutted in ten minutes so I only have emergency in case of black out candles.
I'm a late Gen-X and everyone I know read those books way too young.
I can see the self-satisfied smile on their face as they did it to, the monsters.
Definitely in my top three worst books of all time.