Goodwill is Loony

I heard, last week, that Goodwill was having a two-for-one sale on books. I didn't go because I had just bought a bunch of books. But now it's obvious why they had it -- today there are 4 shopping carts stuffed to heaping with books (a heaping cartful of books?). There are as many new books as there are books still on the shelves. And by "new", I mean Your 2007 Chinese Horoscope is unbelievably current.

I picked out The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Joyce Carol Oates's You Must Remember This and an anthology of Nobel Laureates' quotes called The Words of Peace. That last one I'll try to send to Soka Gakkai International president Daisaku Ikeda.

I couldn't even get to the bottom of some of the carts. Among the volumes I did see but eschewed were: The DaVinci Code; a volume of Chekov plays; Windows 98 for Dummies; multiple copies of the same Grisham book, The Broker; and a couple of Star Trek novels (by the way, Tek Wars kind of yo-yos on and off the Goodwill shelves; I don't know if one copy keeps getting b ought and returned, or if there are still multiple copies of it loose and roaming the Omaha streets). It appears also that there's been a rash of Barbara Cartland dumps -- at least 2 people must have relinquished their extensive BC libraries.

Speaking of Tek Wars, it's my belief that Denny Crane is a better character than Captain Kirk. We do not bother with the hack TJ Hooker. I don't know if Shatner ever played Hamlet, so we conclude that Denny Crane is his crowning achievement.