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    50 Things to Do with a Book
    50 Things to Do with a Book
    50 Things to Do with a Book
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    50 Things to Do with a Book

    By Bruce McCall

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    In a world where reading is reportedly dead, renowned humorist, illustrator, and New Yorker contributor Bruce McCall offers 50 inventive, outlandish, and wickedly entertaining things to do with all those excess books in 50 Things to Do with a Book. From starting a band, building a stairway to paradise, and saving your town from a flood to improving your marriage, entertaining guests, or killing a mockingbird, the options presented in 50 Things to Do with a Book are brilliant, visionary, ironic, and absurd.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 27, 2009
    ISBN9780061959103
    50 Things to Do with a Book
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    Bruce McCall

    Bruce McCall's written and illustrated satire is a familiar part of the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other major publications, and he has published two books of collected humor, Zany Afternoons and All Meat Looks like South America, as well as a memoir of growing up Canadian, Thin Ice. McCall has also just published his first children's book, Marveltown. He lives in New York City.

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      Was this supposed to be funny? I didn't find it amusing at all. I kept going, because it was short and I hoped it would get better, but the only suggestion that wasn't completely stupid was one towards the end that involved launching crappy books into a suburban shopping mall.

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    50 Things to Do with a Book - Bruce McCall

    50 Things to Do with a Book

    (Now That Reading Is Dead)

    Bruce McCall

    For Johannes Gutenberg

    Contents

    Introduction

    Begin Reading

    About the Author

    Other Books by Bruce McCall

    Credits

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    INTRODUCTION

    Hotel rooms now provide Gideon Bibles only as pay-per-view TV channels. Librarians recently thrown out of work are forced to take jobs assembling Kindles in Amazon.com basement facilities where books were formerly stored. The Cassandra Report, the bible of the book-publishing business (available only on the World Wide Web), forecasts that more than fifty warehouses across the U.S., long used as book storage and shipping centers, will shortly be converted to video-game facilities. The Barnes & Noble retail book chain is widely rumored to be studying conversion of many of its larger stores into more profitable Noble Barns—mini-storage units. Rare-book collectors are switching to classic Betamax movie videos of the 1970s and 1980s.

    Meanwhile, any publishing executive or editor still employed today will admit that being paid in books instead of currency, though reducing their firm’s unsold inventory and representing once-in-a-lifetime windfalls for bibliophile employees, can create morale issues that not even free copies of How to Get Rich without Brains! can easily resolve.

    Dire omens indeed, in line with a recent survey that found that more than half of all Americans didn’t read a single book in the previous year—doubtless a conservative figure, because everybody lies about their reading habits. The trend toward a bookless society is gaining almost daily as a TV-besotted, iPhone-bedazzled, time-starved, speed-crazed populace

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