Utena reviewed Weird things customer say in bookshops by Jen Campbell
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4 stars
“CUSTOMER: Hi, I just wanted to ask: did Anne Frank ever write a sequel?
BOOKSELLER: ........
CUSTOMER: I really enjoyed her first book.
BOOKSELLER: Her diary?
CUSTOMER: Yes, the diary.
BOOKSELLER: Her diary wasn’t fictional.
CUSTOMER: Really?
BOOKSELLER: Yes... She really dies at the end – that’s why the diary finishes. She was taken to a concentration camp.
CUSTOMER: Oh... that’s terrible.
BOOKSELLER: Yes, it was awful -
CUSTOMER: I mean, it’s such a shame, you know? She was such a good writer.”
A humorous look at questions posed by customers to bookshop owners and their employees. Many of them worthy of a facepalm or even a head banging against the wall but nonetheless real. You will find yourself laughing as you try to understand why customers never do any sort of research upon the books they are looking for.
