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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Books Useless Books I Have Gotten in the Mail, Part 16: Look! It's Jesus!

Posted by on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:33 PM

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What's the book? Look! It's Jesus! Amazing Holy Visions in Everyday Life by Harry and Sandra Choron.

Why is it useless? It's a bunch of objects (rocks, tree stumps, sheet metal, etc. etc.) that look like they have Jesus, Mary, or other holy figures hidden in them. I guess. Most of them just have blobs that look like they could be beards with two blobs that are separated by about the distance of a pair of eyes floating somewhere above the beard-blobs. This book really struggles to make pattern recognition into something more than it is.

Could anyone enjoy this book? This book tries way too hard to play both sides of the street: They're trying to attract religious people by not being too offensive, and they're trying to attract non-believers by being mildly sarcastic. For every one picture that's kind of neat (the Buddha Beehive is weirdly interesting), there are three or four more where you squint at the page like it's a Magic Eye until you finally recall that you're staring at a rock that some hick thought looked like the Virgin Mary and give up.

 

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Fnarf 1
Wow, so we've gone from books made from websites that shouldn't have been made into books to books that shouldn't even be websites in the first place? Is this really a "book" at all? Is it soft enough to wipe your ass with?
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on February 4, 2010 at 3:38 PM
TVDinner 2
Every time I see a picture of you, Paul, I'm convinced I'm seeing Jesus.
Posted by TVDinner http:// on February 4, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Will in Seattle 3
If you throw a rock that looks like Jesus through a window, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 4, 2010 at 4:16 PM
w7ngman 4
Meh. I'd put it on my coffee table.
Posted by w7ngman http://userscripts.org/users/89370 on February 4, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Reverse Polarity 5
This is sort of the literary equivalent of Reality TV. It is pointless and really cheap to throw together. And enough idiots buy it to keep them publishing more.
Posted by Reverse Polarity on February 4, 2010 at 5:15 PM
Will in Seattle 6
Wise choice, w7ngman.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 4, 2010 at 5:29 PM
7
LOOK! IT'S JEBUS!!
Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER on February 4, 2010 at 5:38 PM
blackhook 8
I saw Jesus crawling out of Hammering Man's butt this afternoon.
Posted by blackhook on February 4, 2010 at 10:19 PM

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