Book Thieves Steal The Book Thief
City Joins Lit-Fest Luvin
In a noble attempt to bring culture to the masses, Cityreads is encouraging the entire population of Brighton and Hove to enter into a booklove orgy.
The Richard-Judy-Oprah lit-fest is taking place throughout the city, during March/April/May. City Reads involves books being released in the city. Every resident will stumble over a copy, take home and read. That is just stage one - the solo part- after that entire community becomes involved.
When everyone has read the same book then everyone can discuss it. It will become a shared experience like a World Cup knockout match against Germany, or the death of a People’s-Princess or Racist-Bully-Reality-TV-Star.
The press release -predictable regurgitated by all the usual outlets- states “Imagine sharing a book with your neighbour, with your hairdresser, with your bus driver and with your friends. Having one book for one city brings readers together.” Clearly drivellous nonsense dreamt up by well meaning but simple intellectual folk that have access to enough public funds to but thousands of books.
Problems….
§ Reading: Half of the adult population has the reading age expected of a child leaving primary school. So cityreads will need release a Janet-and-John/Charlie-Lola to cater for them. And for the one in five functionally illeterate, a Picture-Book is required before the masses can read and discuss.
§ Finding a copy: Where are they all?
There have been reports that the van depositing the the books is being followed by a van collecting them up again. The number of copies available on Amazon for 48 pence would seem to back up this story.
If you do find a copy of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, read it then jump on a bus to discuss it with driver,
“”For me, the sky was the colour of Jews”, what a poignant metaphor Mr Driver. No, next stop please, Death as the narrator, very Discworld. No, I won’t sit down. Yes, the power of the written word is so empouring. OK thias is my stop, thanks.”
What's on your mind?
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March 29th 2009 | 1
art brighton says:
i found one. it was in the library, but the librarian wouldn’t let me take it. said i had to get it from a cafe
