Michael Musto: NY bookstores so embarrassed by Prejean book they're hiding it in self-help section

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Bad News For Carrie Prejean
By Michael Musto

Thursday, Nov. 12 2009 @ 3:30PM



The new I'm-a-victim book by dethroned beauty queen Carrie Prejean might play well in the hinterlands (though it was ranked #595 on Amazon last time I looked), but In New York it's not exactly getting a royal treatment.

In fact, I dropped by the Lincoln Center area Barnes & Noble yesterday to glance at the book (not to buy it, mind you) and couldn't even find it! It wasn't featured in any of the store's many windows. And it was nowhere to be seen on the main floor, including in the big display spread of new non-fiction titles right where you enter.

I asked the info clerk where this bulbous epic by Ms. Prejean might be and she said "Who?" After I spelled it, she said, "Oh, yeah. It's on the third floor." Two long elevator rides later, I looked at the memoirs and bios on display there and still couldn't find it!

Clearly, New York stores are so embarrassed by this book they're hiding it somewhere in the high colonic self-help book section.

But wait, it has much better placement at the Borders on 32nd Street, where I took a gander at it and found that I'm indeed mentioned, on pages 113 and 114. But don't buy it!

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/archives/2009/11/bad_news_for_ca.php

[Yavin4]

1. Self-Help? It Should Be In the Self-Love Section

:evilgrin:

[Kerrytravelers]

2. She has no brains. Maybe she can just live off her looks... oh, wait. That didn't work, either.

It seems she is just shit outta luck.

[rug]

3. She wasn't standing in the video.

[WCGreen]

4. They could buy the remainders and use them for door stops....

[Wapsie B]

5. If she weren't such a self-hating rwinger a good handler would be able to

parlay this notoriety down the road into some nice career for her somewhere in the public spotlight. But Precum certainly ain't no Vanessa Williams. That's all I'm saying.

[LynneSin]

6. Maybe some folks will accidently buy this book instead....

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Innocents-Eyewitness-Wrongful-Executions/dp/0679759484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258122878&sr=8-1

Everytime I see that bimbo's name in the news I remember that there is another Prejean out there who is a wonderful woman who should have the same media attention (well she did when Susan Sarandon played her in her Oscar winning role in "Dead Man Walking")

For those of you who don't want to click - it's Sister Helen Prejean.