It's one of the few advantages to being dead, having all this time to read

[oddmonster]

# 68: Orpheus and the Pearl by Kim Paffenroth:

'Oh my, yes. That is another of her urges I don't fully understand. Victoria is consumed with an overwhelming hunger, and for the most robust fare. Since she doesn't metabolize like we do, I knew her needs would not be nearly as much as a grown adult, but I had anticipated she would need a small

Comments

[katikat]

I think... I think this book would have made me... angry *restrains herself*

[oddmonster]

Oh I definitely have some rage issues around this book, hence the contest. Which I highly encourage you to enter. How would you dispose of such a horrible book?

[katikat]

I think I would donate it. I mean, you paid for it so it would be a shame to destroy it but in a public library, they might find it useful... It would make me feel like something good has come out of it in the end :P

[oddmonster]

See, I thought about that originally, because I always have a box of outgoing books, but my concern here is that a book this bad really doesn't need encouragement to go out and be read, and infect other people with the badness. Maybe if I granted it clemency and released it with a short manifesto, outlining my complaints, stapled to the inside cover?

[seraphina_snape]

I have a problem with violence against books. ...Good books, that is

[oddmonster]

It kills me to advocate violence against books, unless they're this book, which is itself advocating bad writing.

I like the plan. Especially the hazardous material sticker. Maybe I can combine step 5 of your plan with katikat's suggestion, above, and release it into the wild with the hazardous materials sticker and my manifesto of dislike?

[seraphina_snape]

Not a bad idea. But you'd have to be sneaky about it. The local library once turned down a couple of books I wanted to donate because they had a few dog-eared pages. I mean, wtf? It's free books to add to their meagre selection of bad and worse crap they try to pass off as literature, so what are they complaining about?

So, sneaky. Maybe staple that manifesto to a page in the middle of the book. Or, you know, you could choose random pages to scribble "wow, I'm amazed you got this far" and "aren't you just about ready to tear your hair out?" and other messages into the margins.

~ sera

[oddmonster]

See, I find this hard to believe, considering all the things I find in library books ALL THE TIME. Notes scribbled in the margins, receipts used as bookmarks, photos, shopping lists, stickers on the end pages. I should really start cataloguing it, I find so much.

And I have to say it's much worse with young adult books.

I'm not sure notes like the ones you're advocating would be all that out of the ordinary, and this book is certainly that, if nothing else.

[amonitrate]

wow. um. wow. That's all I've got.

[oddmonster]

Oh come on, you work at a library. I expect creative destruction *especially* from you...

[tinx_r]

You may think me callous, but, umm, I have to say: consider yourself deservedly punished for widening your focus to include this book...

[oddmonster]

*facepalm*