Comments on: Ron Arad’s Bookcase Shaped Like the United States of America

By: Tronconneuse

Tronconneuse — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:56:29 +0000

Why as Texas so many book’s?
Isn’t cocacola bottle their favorite reading ?

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:44:24 +0000

Well, oh Prejudicido, I mean Pollardito, I was about to say that I was pleased to see how many books fit in my home state.

By: Kalel

Kalel — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:25:26 +0000

I wonder how many ‘read’ states.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:43:09 +0000

I think I see World War Z in California.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:30:46 +0000

Ah, now it makes more sense! Thanks wendy gunther!

By: Viola

Viola — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:50:16 +0000

This bookcase makes me cry for book-bindings everywhere.

By: kpshea

kpshea — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:27:11 +0000

There seems to be an inversely proportional relationship between the design of the bookshelf and the number of actual books read in the states themselves.

The photo shows way too many books in the southern states, based on my travels.

Am I right, Texas?

By: Pollardito

Pollardito — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:03:41 +0000

there appear to be more books in this Texas than in the actual Texas

By: wendy gunther

wendy gunther — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:25:15 +0000

The point of the song is that there are two sets of Americans about to be in conflict, the farmers against the ranchers. Each deserves to be there and each is needed to do what they do for the society. Neither wishes to recognize this about the other side. I think that’s a reasonably good metaphor for this bookcase, and it would be a better metaphor if there were bibles in the South, hinduism and atheistic literature in the Northeast, etc. – can’t speak to Mein Kampf in California, though.

By: bobajob

bobajob — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:54:34 +0000

Is that a copy of Mein Kampf I can see on the California Shelf. Alabama’s just full of bibles.

By: befu

befu — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:51:07 +0000

I knew right away where the name came from. Heh, I was in “Oklahoma!” my freshman year of high school.

Interesting for sure, but just think of the wall anchors you’d need for that sucker.

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:03:35 +0000

Stupid artsy fartsy bookcases that don’t properly store books make all true book lovers cry.

By: KaliMama

KaliMama — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:20:39 +0000

Lovely bookshelf!

“The Farmer and the Cowman” is from the musical “Oklahoma.”