Celebrity Stalking in the 1940’s
So you’ve read the few books, chatted with your friends over opinions about style of writing etc. You’ve even tried to write to get in touch with the writer. What would be the next step? Now bear in mind it’s 1944 and there’s a World War taking place. Yup, the most extreme case of celebrity stalking, well not quite stalking when you kill them is it? IS IT?
A German fighter ace has just learned that one of his 28 wartime ‘kills’ was his favourite author.
Messerschmidt pilot Horst Rippert, 88, said he would have held his fire if he had known the man flying the Lightning fighter was renowned French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupery
FAIL.
Understandably it’s kill or be killed but the guy feels so sorry that in looking back if he had of known it was one of his favourite authors he would gladly not have fired on the enemies plane. Maybe its a bit of an odd streak in me but soon as that war time / rules of engagement bell goes im bleming everyone in sight!
“I am shocked and sorry,” the ex-Luftwaffe pilot said yesterday. “Who knows what other great books he would have gone on to write?”
Eh would you give a tuppony shit? You’d be brown bread my friend! Simple as!
Begs the question what authors / artists would you pray to be able to shoot / bomb / slice n dice?
My top 5 would be:-
- J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings. Too much walking involved.
- Paul Williams - Sunday World Crime Journalist - Smug smug smug.
- Peig Sayers - Look at you on your ‘mwaiicikle’ - Old Biddy
Ok ok i know its only 3 but i don’t read a lot. . . .
6 responses to "Celebrity Stalking in the 1940’s"
I’d definitely put the crime journalists in. Especially the ones that rush out the book after a famous case. Prepare for the Joe O’Reilly book, the “Scissor Sisters” . That’s if they aren’t out already. There’s a huge market for them though, and they sell buckets of them.
Can’t think of specific authors I would put into a Room 101 though, and I do read a fair bit. Peig Sayers would definitely go in there though!
Tolkien?!?! Heathen! Nonbeliever! I weep for you Benster.
I’d run Moby over with a monster truck, and would take great delight in implaing L. Ron Hubbard on a rusty pole. I’d also love to marmalize any anaemic twat who published a diet and/or excercise and/or yoga book.
Eh i dunno , i’ve a particular penchant for Davina McCall so eh lol
Im on the same page as you with that Moby lad tho!
AJ: Think the scissor sisters one is in production. Some of them are must reads. I loved the Black Widow one. Just hate Paul Williams
I’d gladly kill that bastard Allen Carr for writing the book about giving up the fags, and so leaving me in a situation whereby said book is thrown at my head every couple of days by the missus. That is, of course, if lung cancer hadn’t gotten him first…
@ H: I didn’t know that!!! How ironic!
The guy who wrote the most popular non smoking book died of lung cancer?
there is a god…
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