Sunday, June 10, 2007
...last week...
...food sucked (airplane/microwave food). Furniture and all that stuff is OK to look at, and the fact that you can let your kid off in a play area and go shop is cool...
...but the thing I found interesting was that the shelving displays, rather than being stocked with fake display books, had hundreds of copies of real books...only a handfull of different books over and over again...they were in Swedish (I think, though it's a good bet, y'know?), but there were two books I recognized.
One was Oriana Fallaci's Inshallah, and the other was something by V.S. Naipaul -- was it Among the Believers? I can't remember, and it was in Swedish, anyway.
So there it was, Fallaci and Naipaul in IKEA...over and over and over again. I don't know if there's any significance, but it's a little odd isn't it?
My guess is they buy the books by the kilo. And probably those two titles you recognized would not sell too well in Sweden so they would be available for really cheap. I would be majorly surprised if anybody in Ikea had the remotest idea that they were displaying books in support of a "neocon-ish" viewpoint! Too funny.
But you whetted my curiosity. I'll go have a look at the Ikea store near where I live and check out what books are being displayed here in Canada.