How great! Or how evil! I can't decide ...
The Book Bench blog post, Surprise Ending, Oct. 2, 2008
"This month, boxes of used paperbacks with a sign proclaiming “Free Books” will be placed at strategic locations on Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, as part of the Art in Odd Places “Pedestrian” exhibit. The catch: the last pages of each book have been torn out. It’s unclear if this a commentary on how many people have books on their shelves that they’ve never read or else given up on halfway through."
The Book Bench blog post, Surprise Ending, Oct. 2, 2008
"This month, boxes of used paperbacks with a sign proclaiming “Free Books” will be placed at strategic locations on Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, as part of the Art in Odd Places “Pedestrian” exhibit. The catch: the last pages of each book have been torn out. It’s unclear if this a commentary on how many people have books on their shelves that they’ve never read or else given up on halfway through."
2 Comments:
At Sun Oct 05, 09:57:00 PM,
Schizohedron said…
I suspect if I weren't in on the gag, and I picked up one of these books to read, and got very into it, and then found the last page to be missing (which I assume means the artist can only use books that end on a recto page, otherwise the last two printed pages would be missing . . . oh, how I miss production editing), I would fly into the same berserk rage I did, when, while home with the flu in high school, I watched a copy of Brazil — videotaped from HBO — that was missing the final minute.
But of course, that was me as an immature teenager. As an immature adult, my real impulse would be to type up a new ending, fold the paper into the back of the book, and return it to the Free Books box. >:)
At Sun Oct 05, 10:53:00 PM,
Amy said…
Holy! I think your idea of typing up an alternate ending rocks. Were I not in this state we could go there and grab a bunch and produce them to look like the real deal and then return the books!! Wow, what an idea. A good writing exercise too!
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