Trollumnist Andrew Bolt is not one given to modesty. Here he is today reviewing his own blog:
… more essential reading than ever.
His years-old “book” (can a collection of newspaper columns really be called a book?), on the other hand, was apparently not essential reading for one previous owner who gave or sold it to a second-hand book shop in Richmond where Ant Rogenous and I, along with a fellow Groupthinker, found it one day. Torn as to where the book should actually be displayed, we took some photos of said book in various sections of the store to see how it looked.
Children/early readers:
Humour:
Mythology:
And now it’s time for you to vote on the most appropriate home for Still Not Sorry:
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Have at it!
#1 by Bruce on 28 November 2009 - 8:42 pm
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I’m gutted. Andrew gets $12.50, but my copy of Malcy’s The Reluctant Republic only went out for $2.
#2 by cosmicjester on 28 November 2009 - 9:29 pm
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I like how he still has the link on his blog spruiking the book even though it is long out of print and by the looks of it not gettting a second printing.
#3 by Toaf on 28 November 2009 - 9:47 pm
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Laugh all you want, but when the second edition is published – complete with graphs – it’ll be rolling off the shelves.
#4 by PKD on 28 November 2009 - 9:52 pm
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You mean complete with graphs cherry picked so they can be used completely out of context so as to be meaningless?
Bolt’s at past master at those graphs…
#5 by Andy B on 29 November 2009 - 3:06 am
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ABC’s PM last night was quite funny. Mark Colvin was interviewing Bolt over the phone. He got the shits up at Bolt quite quickly and abruptly ended the interview half way through.
Not related to the post, but I had to say it somewhere.
#6 by Dave Gaukroger on 29 November 2009 - 7:45 am
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I voted for Mythology, but I’m a bit torn. Myths aren’t necessarily based completely on fiction, Bolta’s book however….
#7 by jonowee on 29 November 2009 - 10:13 am
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Will the new edition include statistical graphics as accurate as these…
Old New News- I <3 Pie.
#8 by Campbell on 29 November 2009 - 12:04 pm
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Mythology for sure.
#9 by Molesworth on 29 November 2009 - 2:23 pm
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Don’t forget that Bolt’s book was commisoned by News Ltd. Custom Publishers. It’s printed cheaply and isn’t really a proper book.
#10 by thewetmale on 29 November 2009 - 9:48 pm
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Bolt’s book should be banned from the kids section. Just saying.
#11 by b- on 29 November 2009 - 9:48 pm
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i dunno, do they have a toilet paper section in that bookshop?
#12 by sflyons on 29 November 2009 - 10:21 pm
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It’s interesting that it has the Herald Sun as publisher. Even though News Corp. owns Harper Collins and all of its imprints. There’s a message to take from that, Andrew.
#13 by Baa Humbug on 30 November 2009 - 1:21 am
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I enjoyed the humouros comments above.
Just wondering how many of you have actually managed to write a book let alone publish?
Whether you like his politics or not, be fair and give the man credit for doing what he does the best way he does.
If we all did/could do that, the world would be a better place.
Just saying lol
#14 by Peter Hartley on 30 November 2009 - 6:21 am
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Is it up to you to move a book around various shelves, irrespective of where the shop owner may have placed it? See how you go with that with a copy of the Koran!
#15 by Bron on 30 November 2009 - 12:05 pm
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Baa Humbug, ever heard of “ghostwriter”?
#16 by David Irving (no relation) on 30 November 2009 - 12:41 pm
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I would have thought “New Age and Spiritual” would have been the most appropriate place for it, but I suppose “Mythology” is close enough.
#17 by Tobias Ziegler on 30 November 2009 - 3:28 pm
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I’m curious. What would the Koran do if you tried to move it around various shelves? Does it give you an electric shock?
And is its ability to stop you from moving it around a sign that Allah is the One True God?
#18 by Broken left leg on 30 November 2009 - 3:47 pm
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I’d go for “New Age/Spiritual”. Bolta certainly writes about “Green religion”, “heretics” and “cults” a lot.
#19 by badm0f0 on 30 November 2009 - 7:12 pm
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Did the shop not have a proctology section?
#20 by stewie on 30 November 2009 - 11:21 pm
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No proctology section? What kind of bookshop is this? Next you’ll be saying they don’t have a reactionary right-wing ideologue section! Do they have a section on dealing with toxic waste?