Shaun Bythell owns since twenty years a second-hand bookshop somewhere in Scotland. He has had ample time to see all types of customers and attempts in this book to build a taxonomy of them. This classification is hilarious. You can find the Genus: Peritus (Expert) who will explain your job to you, the Genus: Homo qui desidet (loiterer) \/ Species : Homo qui opera erotica legit (erotica browser) who will hide reading erotic books in the railway section or the Genus : Familia Juvenis \/ Species : Puer relictus (abandoned child) who will dump their kids in the library and go shopping elsewhere. I found myself in several of these readers. A good moment of laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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