All book-lovers have funny stories about display goof-ups in bookstores - whether it's Vikram Seth's The Humble Administrator's Garden being placed in the shelf labelled "Gardening" or Alan Moore's sexually explicit comic Lost Girls showing up in the children's section, at the eye level of a four-year-old. Twice now I've seen The Popcorn Essayists in a "Food and Cookery" shelf, and one learns to smile bravely in the face of these injustices. But yesterday, at the Om bookstore in Saket's MGF mall, I saw a particularly inappropriate case of book-placement. Prominently visible in the section marked "Textiles" was:
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, by Jenna Jameson
(Perhaps she left her hat on?)
this was so funny I had to read it out to the mister
ReplyDeleteManjima: I've heard about many more hilarious examples of goofy book-placement, but unfortunately I can't think of the best ones just now. Maybe a sequel post...
ReplyDeleteDude, you've started plugging yourself a lot.
ReplyDeleteJust an observation.
Is it the lack of motivation to really blog?
This is hilarious - I should pay more attention when I am surfing
ReplyDeleteConman: based on this comment alone, I could just as easily suggest you've started trolling a lot! The blog continues to be a storehouse for all the stuff I write for various publications. But by "plugging", if you mean the references to my books, it would be quite silly for me not to do that, yes?
ReplyDeleteI saw one of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series in the Cookery section once...
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ReplyDeleteWell, TEXTILES does anagram to SEX TITLE. May be it's the section name that got jumbled
ReplyDeleteJAFB: ha ha, very clever!
ReplyDeleteSundip: that placement was a mistake, right? Not intentional?
I have found Bearings - my poetry collection - stacked under both Mechanics and Obstetrics, especially online. Still, one tries to find solace in the thought that at least expectant mothers and troubled engineers might read a couple of pages before yelling timber!
ReplyDeleteMy faith in the (now bankrupt) Blockbuster video rental chain took a nosedive when I saw my local store had shelved the Inuit Indian (Eskimo) movie Atanarjuat http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285441/combined in Asian cinema. I mean, just because the Eskimos have Mongoloid features!
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends said she saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stocked in the Travel section in a Crossword bookstore!
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