Bibles for a Buck

Dollar Store bookshelf in Las Vegas

So, I take it from this that poker writer Cardoza is more popular than all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, who can’t put Jesus back together again.  You know, sort of like when John Lennon said The Beatles were more popular than Jesus.

The Dollar Store is the graveyard of literature.

A book ending up here is just a step away from the recycle bin.  As in scrap paper.

But Dollar Stores are also a bargain hunter’s dream.  They’re great for buying things like cleaning products and other no-frills essentials.  Comet.  Mousetraps.  Birthday cards (anyone who receives a birthday card for me now knows the secret).

They’re also the last stop off for books before being shipped away to a paper mill to be ground into a pulp.  The sad fact is, if a book can’t fetch even a buck at the local Dollar Store, it’s pretty much reached the worthless stage.  I wonder, if the book costs a penny, would it sell any better?  Probably not.

Several months ago, I went to the nearby Dollar Store located near Rainbow and Spring Mountain.  I was stunned to see so many new Holy Bibles packing the shelves.  I also noticed that a book on Seven-Card Stud was stuffed into the same bin.  There’s a twisted irony to two dead dinosaurs of thought gathering dust side by side on a buck-store bookshelf.

Yesterday, I ran out of Comet and mouse traps.  And someone I know has a birthday coming up.  That could only mean one thing — a return trip to the Dollar Store.

Well, I must say, 2013 wasn’t a very good year for Jesus, Jimmy Carter, or Avery Cardoza.  From what I can tell, they haven’t sold any Bibles in months.  Poor Jimmy Carter isn’t faring much better as a published author.  At least Cardoza has moved a few units of his Seven-Card stud book.  It appears about half of the stud books that were on the shelf back last summer are now sold and gone.

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So, I take it from this that Cardoza is more popular than all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, who can’t put Jesus back together again.  You know, sort of like when John Lennon said The Beatles were more popular than Jesus.  Judging by the bookshelf, even “Italian Cooking” is more popular than Jesus.  Well, everyone knows that.

Sounds to me like Jesus needs a new agent.  Whoever it is hawking his book right now, must be sleeping on the job.  Either that, or he’s out somewhere playing Seven-Card Stud.