Every now and then in this fierce blog game, a story comes along that really speaks to my soul and calls my fat ass into action. Today, one of those stories has come across my desk.
A charity shop is urging people to stop donating The Da Vinci Code after becoming overwhelmed with copies.
The Oxfam shop in Swansea has been receiving an average of one copy of the Dan Brown novel a week for months, leaving them with little room for any other books.
Staff who are struggling to sell copies of the book have put a note up in the store saying they would rather donors hand in their vinyl instead.
The sign reads: “You could give us another Da Vinci Code... but we would rather have your vinyl! We urgently need more records to help keep our customers happy…and make more money for Oxfam.”
The Oxfam shop hit a similar problem last year with secondhand copies of Fifty Shades of Grey – forcing it to tell donors: “Please – no more.”
It became so inundated with “literally hundreds” of the books they were forced to hand them over to a warehouse for storage.
Just doing my civic duty here and trying to influence change. We have to stop taking popular books to thrift stores. I happen to enjoy perusing the book sections at these thrift stores. One of the few things I can actually do to occupy my mind, but not think about work at the same time. Every now and then, you can find some real gems at a Goodwill. But, I can guaran-damn-tee you will run into at least three books:
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Shack
- Water for Elephants
I promise. It doesn’t matter which store I’m at – if it’s Nashville, Murfreesboro, Mount Juliet, Donelson, Hermitage, WHEREVER….I’m going to have to sift through copies of these three books to find something new.
And, here’s an important question – what the hell is so wrong with The Da Vinci Code?? Why don’t people want to keep a copy in their personal library? It’s basically a scientific fact that anything associated with Tom Hanks is a family heirloom in the making. If I had money to spend, and if I didn’t live in the United States, I might actually help these people out and buy all of these books and create a sort of monument to Tom Hanks out of them.
But, I stand with this book store. We have to draw the line somewhere. If you’re getting a copy a day of any book, you’re going to eventually get to a point when you can’t sell through them all. These people need to either listen to the store and find some vinyl to donate instead, or hold on to their damn copies of The Da Vinci Code, written by Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks wrote The Da Vinci Code, right?
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