Read A Book

Read A Book is a music video (with some potentially offensive lyrics) that addresses the lack of interest in not only reading and literacy but other issues as well. It's not a race issue, in my opinion, it's a question of the individual and what they see the future holding for themselves and their level of self-worth. It's causing quite a stir on some message boards.

Either way it's serious satire in the true denotative sense of the word.

(Thanks to Willie for the link)

THE BIG BOX OF OLD PAPERBACKS BOOK CLUB

Last summer, while shopping at a Half Price Books And Records location in Chicago, I [Keith Phipps] came across something I didn’t know I needed until I saw it. After perusing the recent arrivals, I made my way to the less heavily trafficked back of the store where, next to stacks of back issues of Good Housekeeping I found a big, narrow box wrapped in plastic. It contained over 75 old paperbacks published between the ‘60s and ‘80s, all of it genre fiction, most of it science fiction. I had to have it, and at the price of $35, I somehow couldn’t afford not to buy it.

I also gave myself the project of reading the entire box. And after neglecting that project for a while, I decided to revive it here

He's started on his 5th book and I think it's a lot of fun to keep up with his reading of the entire box.

(I've always though books with commercials/advertisements in them were just hilarious.)