Abraham Piper, the Minneapolis-based keeper of the blog 22 Words, found images of the garage on the Web and typed out a few thoughts. His first reaction was along the lines of "Hey, neat! Books!" But then he took a closer look at the titles.
Piper doesn't criticize the choices, which include Invisible Man and To Kill a Mockingbird. Rather, he's got an issue with the not-to-scale thickness of the various books. The garage's Charlotte's Web, for instance, is as hefty as its Lord of the Rings trilogy. The actual Charlotte's Web is less than 200 pages, whereas Tolkien needed three volumes to crown Aragorn the king of Gondor.
The library's supersized E.B. White and Shakespeare volumes led Piper to quip: "Then you think, 'Those must be large-print editions of Charlotte’s Web and Romeo and Juliet.'"
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You know what the best thing about Minneapolis is? The fact that it is next to St. Paul, home of the JUICY LUCY
Sorry, I can't think about books when I'm laughing at the poster who think Minneapolis is "slowing being taken over by Somalis."
Daniel has it right... it's an art installation. The image is a composite, not a scan of an actual shelf somewhere.
The most glaring mistake is really that they are calling this the library itself. The rest is sarcasm when you read the blog post.
I've never really thought about the width of the books on the garage before. It's a reasonable thing to bring up, since I know that some friends in my book club will not touch books that are just too lengthy for them. Some of the club will read longer works. No one should be embarrassed by the number of pages of their publication. At least they got published. If they were published and so worthy that they became the part of a large art installation on a garage than why would they ever complain? And I sure hope Tolkien, bright man that he was, wouldn't gripe about how authors of shorter fiction got spaces next to him.
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