OT: The world's most expensive boring book?

The Koran and/or the Bible.

Costs thousands of wasted lives a year in religious wars etc and both are full of bollocks.

Do I win?

Probably. Early days yet. ;-)

I agree with your choice. What is more, the OP's book, while perhaps not easy to read at a sitting, is likely to contain information which could be quite useful to someone at some time. Which is more than can be said of the Bible or Koran.

Not sure if one on it's own would work, but the two together certainly got the US president into power.

What the books are finally "useful" for is yet to be learnt. I have little doubt that an enabling of the apocolypse is more likely than ever under the present lying scumbag.

AB

This

The pictures are quite interesting though, so I don't think I'm going to get that ten-shilling postal order!

Owain

Bloody lucky escape then, I hate to think of the consequences if he had called Yahweh a tosser. Trump twins perchance? :-(

AB

First edition signed Finnegan's Wake would be my choice.

Sure:

That's a classic. A classic piece of total garbage, literally as well as literarily. Not as costly as Mein Kampf though.

NT

My father had a copy of Mein Kampf.

In German.

I really don't know why.

Owain

I won't bother but I will point out that books are only boring if you have no interest in the subject. This seems to be particularly the case with niche science publications. I once saw a book many many years ago in our local library something like a complete catalogue of bus and tram tickets issued in the UK from a very old date to the 1960s. The original cover price was 10 shillings and sixpence, but that was quite a lot back then of course. I bet such books are now collectable. Brian

Hmm the problem with books translated from other languages over the years is that they contain the opinions of the day and the persons doing the translations. Nobody is impartial so saying any of them are the correct message from God if one exists, is just being silly. Sometimes you can learn an eternal truth, but much of it is propaganda by the time we get hold of it. Brian

Oh I think if you use the pinch of salt method, there are some quite good stories in both books. Brian

Looks like it's got the original plans of Noahs boat. Seems a trifle cramped. Don't rate its roll stability.

Noah would have to get an awful lot of rodents loaded on and huddled up at one end before the elephants got on at the other.

Owain

As in any good book of fiction.

There is currently a series on TV about the lies associated with the American war of independence, the American civil war, the abolition of slavery and their constitution. Fairly interesting viewing if you ignore the directors' poor attempt of tying to give the presenter a personality. It basically shows that in a couple of hundred years the political propaganda and spin of the time is now believed irrespective of the facts.

Noah's Ark = Nature's ultimate smorgasbord...

I might wait for one of the other 4 apparently available from the same Ohio based seller.

If this was Amazon I would have assume the item was out of stock and being given a silly price to avoid delisting then relisting.

Sorry, not really in the spirit of things.

Cheers

Dave R