And the historical reconstructionism in general, which really seems to attract an awful lot of some of the most awful excuses for historical justification and revisionism that I've ever seen. We had several books like that in the shop, but I recall a particularly egregious one that claimed to be about the 'actual history' of Celtic Wiccanism... that took images of Sheila-na-Gig side by side with late medieval carvings of the Three Wise Men and created this mishmash nonsense that had nothing to do with either. I mean, we're talking made up out of whole cloth.
It was so bad that it became the only book for which I ever called the distributor, complained, and then informed them that I'd rather eat the $10 wholesale cost than ever risk that tripe falling into ignorant hands to be so utterly misled by such a horrendous excuse for historical accuracy. I shoved the book into a box (because I couldn't bring myself to burn it) and refused to put it on the shelves, even if I did get requests for ordering it. Gee, no, not available!
Two months later, on the phone making an order, and one of my regular order-takers at the distributors was pleased to pass along the gossip that the book had been yanked from print. Hah.
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Date: 7 Mar 2011 04:44 am (UTC)It was so bad that it became the only book for which I ever called the distributor, complained, and then informed them that I'd rather eat the $10 wholesale cost than ever risk that tripe falling into ignorant hands to be so utterly misled by such a horrendous excuse for historical accuracy. I shoved the book into a box (because I couldn't bring myself to burn it) and refused to put it on the shelves, even if I did get requests for ordering it. Gee, no, not available!
Two months later, on the phone making an order, and one of my regular order-takers at the distributors was pleased to pass along the gossip that the book had been yanked from print. Hah.