What to do with all those books....

[poltr1]

Before the decision was made to pull the plug on OJ's latest book, If I Did It, many, many copies -- hundreds of thousands -- were printed.

So what can be done about them? Slate magazine's Constance Casey offers one suggestion: Shred 'em up and turn them into compost.

I want to remember OJ Simpson as an all-star running back for the Bills, not as an actor, and certainly not as a Hollywood celebrity.

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I think we should use them as kindling for a big fire onto which we toss OJ and every greedy money-grubber who signed up to profit from a murderer gloating about how he got away with it. Any surplus can be force-fed to anyone who publicly opines that justice was done at the OJ trial.

Or perhaps we should issue them to anyone who will volunteer to travel through the community whacking people on the head with them, because the whole mess was an amazingly loud and clear wake up call that our justice system is in crisis at best, and America collectively hit the snooze button without actually looking at the clock.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

I went to a library used-book sale shortly after the publication of "I Want to Tell You" by O.J.Simpson. The price signs posted went something like:
Hardcover - $1
Paperback - $.50
Children's Books - $.50
Records / Cassettes - $1
Video Tapes $1
"I Want to Tell You" in
any form (HC/PB/Cas/VT) - $.10
-- Dagonel

[zorya-thinks.livejournal.com]

He was never much of an actor. Remember Capricorn One? The man should have taken a clue from Roger Stabach and invested his earnings into a good franchise

[athenawindsong.livejournal.com]

I like the bonfire idea. I'll bring the drums and the flying ointment!

Bar-bee-que CAAAAT?
Bar-bee-que MOUSE!!!
(A Tom and Jerry reference there)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I want to remember OJ Simpson...

I don't.

[yourmommma.livejournal.com]

But what about people that might have wanted to read it? I wouldn't want to read it, but isn't censorship always a slippery slope? After all you can still buy both of Jonathon Frey's fictional/nonfiction books even after OPRAH condemned them. I can't imagine that OJ's book is any less (or more) truthy. Is "If I Did It" truly more disgusting or disturbing than "Mein Kampf" or "The Turner Diaries?"