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1. The doors open and everybody seems to be waiting to get in. All of the neighbors are taking a break from their nefarious deeds and decide to curl up with a book on this Saturday afternoon. The first customer, who looks like she took some six or seven hours to get ready to come here (my goodness, not a hair out of place), introduces herself as the 'Widow Bree Van De Kamp'. Chilly looking one, you summarize. She is curiously seeking out a book about a fellow named Patrick Bateman, a complicated New York stockbroker/psychopath. Uh oh, your first instinct was correct. Mrs. Van De Kamp is chilly indeed! What book features the character Patrick Bateman?
2. Your next customer, dark and interesting, is named Carlos Solis and he has found the book he's looking for. Actually it isn't a novel but a script/screenplay in book form and it seems an odd choice of reading for such a macho man as this, but then you remember all the gossip (the gossip mill is hot on Wysteria Lane) about Carlos's wife and her -um- 'interest' in that teenaged landscaper of theirs. The tale he purchases, addressing the plight of young Tom Robinson Lee, might give some insight as to the whole scandalous notion. What is Carlos eager to read? He seems almost crudely gentle so his choice has at least an air of sweetness to it...
3. Young Zachary Young, looking a bit either troubled or world-weary, approaches toting a dog-eared copy of "Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Salinger. That novel seems a good fit, especially for this teenager whose mother (who wasn't really his mother) who shot herself and his father (who, you guessed it, wasn't really his father) who kept him drugged and publicly sequestered for a time weren't exactly the tightest wrapped parents in the county. Holden Caulfield, "Rye"'s anti-hero, had a similiar distate for the "phoniness" of the adult world; Zach and Holden were kindred spirits. Today Master Young is looking to buy the rest of the Salinger library and he finds them - and accidentally one novel that was written by somebody else, too. Which book was not written by J.D. Salinger?
4. Our next customer is Mr. Tom Scavo, afluster but nice in his designer shirt stained with baby vomit. We'll call him an "honorary" 'Desperate Housewife'. Things in his life have gotten all backwards! His high profile job went berserk, life at home is a chaotic exercise, for sure. His whole description in day-to-day life has become a muddle. Today he is purchasing a book by Paul Monette, which you find to be a suitable exercise for him to read and which might help him sort himself out. What book is Tom likely to be taking home, of these four mentioned?
5. Our next Wisteria Lane denizen is Ms. Edie Britt. Wow! We haven't seen this much cleavage since the last Miss Universe pageant on TV. Surely she can't be a "Housewife", 'Desperate' or otherwise (she isn't). Apparently it is her basic function to stir things up, flirt with anything in trousers and wear clothing that leaves quite little to the imagination. On this Saturday she is looking for a book, one that is visibly right up her alley, with two lovers named Gloria Wandrous and Weston Liggett in it. To your surprise you know what novel she wants (and you even recall that Liz Taylor was in the movie). Which one?
6. Here we have Rex Van De Kamp (he's the one married to Bree, the veritable 'Stepford Wife'). A doctor, a decent father, obsessed with sex games - your basic average Joe here on Wysteria Lane - Rex is looking for a real doozy of a book this trip!
"Have you ever heard of it? It was written by Derek Humphrey. I need it for medical research and can't get my hands on a copy to save my life..." he asks.
"SAVE your life? Whatever you say, Mr. Van De Kamp. I'm sorry but, due to bomb threats here at the store, we don't carry that book anymore."
The disappointed customer was looking for what title that raised controversy in the early 1990s?
7. Betty Applewhite totes her purchase to the counter. She seems nice, no shiftier than the rest of the neighbors here in "Desperate Housewives"-ville. Her book is "The Collector" which, again, makes perfect sense since she has 'collected' a mystery man and imprisoned him in her basement. That happened in the novel she's about to read as well. At least something close to it did, anyway. Who wrote "The Collector" (he wrote "The French Lieutenant's Woman", too)?
8. Hi! Here comes Tom Scavo again. Maybe he's returning his book? No. He's with his wife Lynette who not only looks exhausted but stressed out, especially for a Saturday. You remember. She has a new executive job and is adjusting with difficulty. You have just the book for her, which was written by Harvey MacKay. She buys it. What was the book's title?
9. Such a cute couple are checking out now! The fellow, a certain Mike Delfino, goes first and buys a book that surely fits some of the prattle you've heard about him. He's charming, mysterious, some think handsome, new in town - he's just a puzzle waiting to happen! Is his girlfriend the one to 'put him together'? Good question. Anyway, he's buying "The Witches Of Eastwick" by John Updike. It covers the story of a likewise enigmatic new neighbor who certainly raises a few eyebrows in a small community and disrupts just about everything as he goes. Mike Delfino might (or might not) just be a carpenter but, not long after arrival in Eastwick, the book tells us that Mr. Daryl Van Horne is discovered to really be who? Or what?
10. Mike's girlfriend is next and has a question for you (and of course a short bubbly speech). It seems she just discovered her long lost - in fact, she never knew he existed in the first place - father who owns a Feed And Tackle store close by. She is Susan Mayer and is just thrilled by this [you reckon that anyone would be or at least you act the part]. "I heard of a book about fishing that I'm sure my daddy will like. He'll be wanting to learn more and more about bait and oats. The book is by a guy named Brautigan and called "Paris Trout". Is that a travel book, too?". Yikes. Is that information even close to right?
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