I’ve been reading a couple of mystery novels and ran across some amusing lines.
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“You think you can pick up a turd from the clean end?”
Barry Eisler, Fault Line
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“Bob Menechinn, probably still smarting from having Ridley buckle him into his pack, pointing out he was the tallest and strongest and best able to protect and serve—an argument that basically boiled down to ‘has a penis’—wanted to go first.”
Later in the same book, the park ranger Anna Pigeon thinks this about the same guy: “She wondered what he would look like with a plastic bag tied tightly over his head.”
Nevada Barr, Winter Study
In addition to the occasional great line, Barr’s Anna Pigeon mysteries make the national parks come to life.