Reviews for My Lady Nicotine

The average rating for My Lady Nicotine based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-11 00:00:00 Denzel Robinson Peter Pan gives up smoking. As befitted a Victorian gentleman, J. M. Barrie was inordinately fond of his pipe. Urged on by his fiancée he gave it up. Looking back on his days as a smoker he wrote a number of articles about the joys of the baccy and collected them together in this amusing little book. Having read it, I have no idea how he managed to kick the habit, he clearly loved a good puff and everything connected to it, evidenced by his affectionate fetishizing of smoking pariphinallia such a pipe, pouch and table. He waxes so lyrical about the ambrosia of tobacco brands, the 'Arcadia Mixture,' that given a choice between a few grams of that and Walter White's best batch of Blue Sky crystal meth I'd have to toss a coin for it. Some of the incidents only tangentially touch on tobacco, but I wasn't complaining. I laughed out loud when a friend proposed while fishing, only to get a bite and interrupt the good ladies reply. You may not be surprised to know that her answer was "No." The chapter where the narrator failed to water his holidaying friend's potted plant for three weeks struck a particular comic chord with me. I respect that level of neglect! I don't know if Barrie began smoking again after his marriage but his assertion that with its introduction to Elizabethan England the 'whole country was stirred by the ambition to live up to tobacco' makes me believe that he must have. His wife left him. The tobacco is always true.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-06 00:00:00 Looghan Looghan Un libriccino delizioso, almeno per un'ex fumatrice. Chi volesse leggerlo abbia cura di procurarsi un'edizione illustrata da Maurice B.