Can a Book Save Your Life?

[Mazurka1001]

Borderline cretinous, I am sorry to say.

[DADDADON7]

There's some book on Amazon called: The Org 'Biography of a Violent Man'. Not sure how a book can be so violent and still funny at the same time, but it is. They limit it to only a 100 copies a year.

[ThatKidKnows]

why use "the instructions" as a shield? Why not throw it at your assailant lol, it'd knock 'em out cold ahahaah

[ThatKidKnows]

lol "Your Battery is Empty, to continue using your kindle connect it to a power source" ahahaha

[kevinbrueck]

Good to know. We could have also used the caliber of that Sig the guy was shooting.

[mrspook21]

Books help you die

[Bullseye5477]

Wonder how the Bible would do compared to the Qur’ān.

[ChurbaSilvertongue]

@Bullseye5477 Roughly equal, in fact - in their most common printings, they're of similar size, paper quality and density.

[musstakrakish]

The Mythbusters already did this with Phone Books...

[Chakintosh]

THANK GOD THEY SHOT ALSO THE KINDLE ! i don't like it anyways !

[bbq4000]

i am pretty sure my backpack full with books and binders can stop a bullet

[Kevin17761984]

caliber? looks like 9 or 40

[irishspuds]

My friends and I actually tried this a gun range with various guns on one Math Book from the school at 50 feet distance (books that were being thrown out). The math book stopped the basic pistol, but did not stop a Mauser rifle

[Neacelable]

Do not destroy the books for, send them to me. I will not shot them for any reason!

[ohdaysoo]

The Bible saved Flanders from Fat Tony's bullets.

[mr153]

@ohdaysoo Also his hefty crucifix =P

[AntiAffliction]

he looks like an older michael swaim

[cxullen]

That is a high powered gun. If a 22 or a 38 hit, the book might stop it. certainly better than nothing at all. Also, try constraining the pages, I mean really! When the bullet hit in your tests, the whole thing flew open. In a real world case, it would be tightly pressed between your jacket and your body. Some experimental design please! hehe

[ggudding]

Is that a Mauser M2?

[dhack176]

Raphaelus13...why do you need to see the drawn penis?

[Aurodeus]

have you tried the bible? any bible.

[Alchiexander]

What about the Autobiography of Mark Twain? That is a monster of a book. Over 700 pages, and that's just volume 1.

[irockdude64]

Subliminal add campaign for OG's to bu books lol

[m15cell]

hence why I only read steel-plate cover novels

[yuqikang]

ahaha

[Raphaelus13]

Why did you obscured the drawn penis? GROW UP AMERICA

[captainbadd]

@Raphaelus13 No, you.

[cxullen]

@Raphaelus13 because its funny to obscure it!

[AndyHunter777]

@Raphaelus13 the drawn penis is unobscured here: electricliterature (dot) com

[Rsguyprime]

@Raphaelus13 I think that's more to stop idiots from flagging it against youtube regulations...

[musstakrakish]

@Raphaelus13 Because no one wants to see a penis! o.O

[HaoWenXiang]

@Raphaelus13 It sucks when you look for penis on youtube and only find black bars.

[justanotherpatriot]

this was really funny, I really lie your guys' new PR ideas

[justanotherpatriot]

@justanotherpatriot like*

[charlesmanderson]

Yawn. Maybe if Electric Literature spent more time READING SUBMISSIONS and less time SHOOTING NOVELS they wouldn't take 12 FUCKING MONTHS to respond to submissions. UNprofessional.

[arctikstorm]

So the question is: "Can The Bible save your life?"

now that's a thing that would be cool to know, although I already know the answer

[MargoRoseFerderer]

Love me some Tom Shillue. Fabulous!!!

[joseromulososaortiz]

Not funny, shooting books? i would understand it if, as in some of WS Burroughs books the author shoot the cover, but i found this totally bored and without any purpose

[TheBlindDyslexic]

hmm so if we get Witts-we have a good chance keeping ours