It's really bad! Yet Pat Boone did have teenage fans and presumably some of them read this book without immediately tearing it in half and flinging the halves in opposite directions. There seems to be a range of toleration for this sort of thing.
I took it home from the used bookstore, back when I was working at the used bookstore, during a shelf purge of the "Christianity" section (the bane of my existence). I think I was just curious about the strength of the cringe ray and about mid-20th century evangelism, a period I don't know much about. And I couldn't just give it away again without reading it! That would be far too sensible. It'll go to another used bookstore when I'm done with it; it's in good condition and probably cheesy enough to tempt a hipster (given that it was cheesy enough to tempt me).
Most of the local Christian-book buyers (as opposed to book buyers who happen to be Christian) were very trend-minded. They tended not to look at anything older than about five years. Which probably isn't that unusual in general - but nearly everyone who came into the store had already self-selected for either "interested in old books" or "indifferent to age of book," whereas the people looking for the latest Christian bookstore bestseller had not. I'm not sure why.
I'll probably just take a few notes on Generation of Vipers and then let it go. It doesn't take up much shelf space, but every little bit helps.
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Date: 2017-07-26 05:05 pm (UTC)I took it home from the used bookstore, back when I was working at the used bookstore, during a shelf purge of the "Christianity" section (the bane of my existence). I think I was just curious about the strength of the cringe ray and about mid-20th century evangelism, a period I don't know much about. And I couldn't just give it away again without reading it! That would be far too sensible. It'll go to another used bookstore when I'm done with it; it's in good condition and probably cheesy enough to tempt a hipster (given that it was cheesy enough to tempt me).
Most of the local Christian-book buyers (as opposed to book buyers who happen to be Christian) were very trend-minded. They tended not to look at anything older than about five years. Which probably isn't that unusual in general - but nearly everyone who came into the store had already self-selected for either "interested in old books" or "indifferent to age of book," whereas the people looking for the latest Christian bookstore bestseller had not. I'm not sure why.
I'll probably just take a few notes on Generation of Vipers and then let it go. It doesn't take up much shelf space, but every little bit helps.