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Robert Morley's Second Book of Bricks
Out of Print.
146 pages, Hardcover
First published September 10, 1981
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August 18, 2025
Much the same as the best-selling first edition, though it doesn't have extra essays to add to the amusement and the overall standard of 'bricks' aren't quite as good, in my view anyway.
Caution: this book is a time piece. Some humour is timeless, some humour is very much dependent on subverting the values, standards and attitudes of its time - meaning a different generation will struggle even to see the joke in the first place, let alone find it funny. This book falls into that category, as I explained in my review of the first book:
"Two things are required to enjoy this book - some knowledge of the contributors and people mentioned in it, and, equally, knowledge of the culture in which they lived, a very different world from today. Google can assist with the first requirement, though it would make reading it a bit laborious and rather kill the punchlines.
As to the second, if you’re not familiar with the educated middle and upper classes and public figures of Britain in the 1970s, I’d suggest watching a few episodes of Call My Bluff from the 1970s (many are on YouTube), with Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell. If you enjoy those (I do, partly for the reasons intended but also for the nostalgia and indeed the time travelling watching it involves), you’ll enjoy this book. If not, you won’t."
Caution: this book is a time piece. Some humour is timeless, some humour is very much dependent on subverting the values, standards and attitudes of its time - meaning a different generation will struggle even to see the joke in the first place, let alone find it funny. This book falls into that category, as I explained in my review of the first book:
"Two things are required to enjoy this book - some knowledge of the contributors and people mentioned in it, and, equally, knowledge of the culture in which they lived, a very different world from today. Google can assist with the first requirement, though it would make reading it a bit laborious and rather kill the punchlines.
As to the second, if you’re not familiar with the educated middle and upper classes and public figures of Britain in the 1970s, I’d suggest watching a few episodes of Call My Bluff from the 1970s (many are on YouTube), with Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell. If you enjoy those (I do, partly for the reasons intended but also for the nostalgia and indeed the time travelling watching it involves), you’ll enjoy this book. If not, you won’t."
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