Comments on: The Hooker Prize – The Year’s Most Bizarre Literary List? http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/the-hooker-prize-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-most-bizarre-literary-list/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/the-hooker-prize-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-most-bizarre-literary-list/#comment-5984 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:03:30 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=916#comment-5984 Definitely.

]]> By: ggelliott http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/the-hooker-prize-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-most-bizarre-literary-list/#comment-5983 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:24:44 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=916#comment-5983 However, he might have gotten a good laugh out of it…

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/the-hooker-prize-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-most-bizarre-literary-list/#comment-5979 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:50:36 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=916#comment-5979 You’re right. Churchill would never have written that sentence about hookers, madams, and more …

]]> By: ggelliott http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/the-hooker-prize-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-most-bizarre-literary-list/#comment-5978 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:11:18 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=916#comment-5978 “…hookers, madams, high-class call-girls and prostitutes”

Agreed. Surely “prostitutes and madams” would have been adequate.

Funny, isn’t it, how this contrasts with Churchill’s advice regarding words, shared in your previous entry? Thanks for a giggle.

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