Boyfriend told me he had never heard of this book. Jaws were dropped. Hopefully Reddit is familiar with it.
Posted Nov 13, 2011, 2:03 AM UTC
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I can't believe people haven't heard of this. I thought it was required reading, along with Streganona
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Totally. I never owned Strega Nona because I read it in class all the time, but I went and bought it a few months ago. My husband missed out on all the fun (Btw, did you know there are actually multiple books beyond the first?), so I made him read it too.
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I always wondered why the skateboard only had two wheels.
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Just one of the many reasons Alexander's day sucked out loud.
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People have even heard of this book IN AUSTRALIA!
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That was one of my favorite books when I was younger. Whenever I have bad days I tend to think of this book. 'Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday' was pretty decent too.
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I loved that one as well, but this one more so. Good times.
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Clearly all his days have been good. He has no need for this tome of negativity.
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Favorite book as a kid, I still have a copy of it.
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Never heard of it.
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Couldn't get the shoes he wanted and his brother stole his money using a magic trick. Fuck.
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I remember that book. I still have days like that.
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Read it to a kid just last week!
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Yay!
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I once headed up to my legal research professor's office, and her secretary had that book on a bookshelf, cover facing the entrance.
Cruel, sadistic, or what? I never figured out.
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One of my favorites growing up. Don't feel too bad, my husband has never seen the Muppets.
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I shit you not... I just heard of this yesterday when my friend told me he got casted to play Alexander is a musical production of that book in San Fran haha
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Fuckin' lima beans...
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"jaws" ...
hrm, contemplates multiple jawed people... nope, that's too wtf.
anyway... how can you date a guy who hasn't heard of this!?
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He's pretty much a winner in every other aspect, I can forgive this one small one ;)
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A fortunate guy than indeed, to have one such as yourself to look past such a fault as this. :)
Anyway, 'twas a very good book, thanks for the rememory (a remembering of, or reminder of a memory) of the book, books like these and the Shel Silverstien books were always great fun.
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I love this book!! Read it to my kids all the time! My son is named Alex..he still loves it!
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holy hell its been a long time since ive read this one!
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oh
my
god
I love that book so much, I couldn't find it a while ago so I just had to go out and buy it again.
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I still say this on my way into work sometimes.
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never heard of it, not at all.
I actually haven't seen this book before.