Comments on: How to Ditch Your Fairy: hilarious kids book about the problems with fairies http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 01:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html#comment-285492 dragonfrog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-285492 I'm personally conflicted on whether a parking fairy would be better or worse than no fairy at all - I don't keep a car, have no plans to acquire one, and will probably never move to a neighbourhood or take a job that would require one. Now if a parking fairy helped me find good spots to lock up my bike where it wouldn't get stolen, knocked over, rained on, or driven over by inept car parkers, that would be awesome. I’m personally conflicted on whether a parking fairy would be better or worse than no fairy at all – I don’t keep a car, have no plans to acquire one, and will probably never move to a neighbourhood or take a job that would require one.

Now if a parking fairy helped me find good spots to lock up my bike where it wouldn’t get stolen, knocked over, rained on, or driven over by inept car parkers, that would be awesome.

]]> By: tom funk http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html#comment-352059 tom funk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-352059 Thanks for this posting, Cory. Before I found your page, I had gone to Amazon and searched for "hilarious young adult fiction" and the results were dismal -- mostly just books whose excerpted text contained the word "hilarious." Then I did a Google search for "hilarious young adult fiction" and voila, there you were with a great, relevant suggestion. Thanks for knocking another item off my Christmas list! Thanks for this posting, Cory. Before I found your page, I had gone to Amazon and searched for “hilarious young adult fiction” and the results were dismal — mostly just books whose excerpted text contained the word “hilarious.”

Then I did a Google search for “hilarious young adult fiction” and voila, there you were with a great, relevant suggestion. Thanks for knocking another item off my Christmas list!

]]> By: earbox http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html#comment-284829 earbox Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-284829 <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html#comment-284743" rel="nofollow">@3</a>: Depends on the boy. I enjoyed it quite a bit and I'm a 26-year-old male (although I had some issues with the ending, unrelated to my age and gender). If he likes light urban fantasy and isn't afraid of a book with a female protagonist, I'd say yes. @3: Depends on the boy. I enjoyed it quite a bit and I’m a 26-year-old male (although I had some issues with the ending, unrelated to my age and gender). If he likes light urban fantasy and isn’t afraid of a book with a female protagonist, I’d say yes.

]]> By: johnfoster http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html#comment-284851 johnfoster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-284851 while I haven't read the book I say that this stupid girl will grow up later to feel great remorse about giving up what could be the perfect thing to have following you around for a lifetime. while I haven’t read the book I say that this stupid girl will grow up later to feel great remorse about giving up what could be the perfect thing to have following you around for a lifetime.

]]> By: manicbassman http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html#comment-284891 manicbassman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-284891 a parking fairy would be an excellent fairy to have... a parking fairy would be an excellent fairy to have…

]]> By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html#comment-284651 dragonfrog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-284651 When I read the final link - "How to Ditch your Fairy at Amazon" - I thought, it seems like that would be a lot harder than ditching a fairy at a regular bookstore. When I read the final link – “How to Ditch your Fairy at Amazon” – I thought, it seems like that would be a lot harder than ditching a fairy at a regular bookstore.

]]> By: Kat Johnston http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html#comment-284660 Kat Johnston Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-284660 I wouldn't ditch them... I'd collect em! Gotta catch em all, and all that rot... *snickers* Good parking spaces, the (not so) unique ability to tie a cherry stem into a knot using only my tongue and an affinity with werewolves await me, if only I can find the right damn fairies... I wouldn’t ditch them… I’d collect em! Gotta catch em all, and all that rot… *snickers* Good parking spaces, the (not so) unique ability to tie a cherry stem into a knot using only my tongue and an affinity with werewolves await me, if only I can find the right damn fairies…

]]> By: coldspell http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fa.html#comment-284919 coldspell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-284919 I was expecting this to be a self-help book akin to "The Secret". I was expecting this to be a self-help book akin to “The Secret”.

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