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Read this, carefully:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product. ... 8790:21194

another great discovery by fark!

If it is fixed by the time you guys see it, it is the wal mart version of The Hobbit, and here is its description (I sh*t you not...):
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel.The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo, Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.
Boxed hardcover bound in green leatherette with gold and red foil stamping, two-color typography, and five full-page color illustrations by the author

I wonder what would happen if a lot of people bought it, and then returned it because it didn't have anything to do with guys on a houseboat.

LOL!

Someone will lose a job because of this.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

WTF? HAHAH.

Reminds me of bootleg DVD's my buddy brought home from Canton.
The box had 1 movie on the front and the description for a different movie on the back.

LOL!

Looks like I'll have to reread The Hobbit.

Dalton wrote:Looks like I'll have to reread The Hobbit.

Yeah, I might have skipped the part about the homosexual prostitute living on a houseboat on thr Thames river.

LMAO, Obviously the rewritten P.C. version of the Hobbit.

Five words for this: NUKE IT TILL ITS DEAD!

The other book sounds familiar.

Does anybody know what it is actually called?

And not the Hobbit.

Wow...I guess the Hobbit's changed since the last time I read it.

neoolong wrote:The other book sounds familiar.

Does anybody know what it is actually called?

And not the Hobbit.

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/offshore.asp

You'd be amazed at what you can do with a google search.

Ghost Rider wrote:Wow...I guess the Hobbit's changed since the last time I read it.

Yeah they updated it. They made it edgy. They made it hip and "with it" for today's kids. They thought outside the box, and now it's the "
shizz-nit."

Rob Wilson wrote:

neoolong wrote:The other book sounds familiar.

Does anybody know what it is actually called?

And not the Hobbit.

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/offshore.asp

You'd be amazed at what you can do with a google search.

Oh, thanks. I didn't think to paste the description. Didn't get anything when I tried before.

Got the link from Fark, eh?

Let's start guessing how long until it gets fixed. I say, sometime Friday.

neoolong wrote:
Oh, thanks. I didn't think to paste the description. Didn't get anything when I tried before.

So what did you do the search by? I got the same page just now, using just "Nenna" +novel.

Rob Wilson wrote:

neoolong wrote:
Oh, thanks. I didn't think to paste the description. Didn't get anything when I tried before.

So what did you do the search by? I got the same page just now, using just "Nenna" +novel.

"Battersea Reach of the Thames" I didn't think it was an actual place.

neoolong wrote:

Rob Wilson wrote:
So what did you do the search by? I got the same page just now, using just "Nenna" +novel.

"Battersea Reach of the Thames" I didn't think it was an actual place.

Ah, I used the entire first line. Always best to get something unique in there to ensure a good hit on whatever you are looking for.

Now, here is the big question, is this the work of a hacker or some prank by a disgruntled wally world employee?

NF_Utvol wrote:Now, here is the big question, is this the work of a hacker or some prank by a disgruntled wally world employee?

It's also possible the Wal-mart people are just that dumb. After all, Wal-Mart does exactly cater to the upscale market here folks.

NF_Utvol wrote:Now, here is the big question, is this the work of a hacker or some prank by a disgruntled wally world employee?

More likely the guy doing the site write-up had too much work on, managed to get a run together of blurbs, and was too lazy or tired to proof it before publishing the page.