| Straw bale housing, subterranean homes, houses | | | | one. |
| made of flying concrete-prospective homeowners | | | | And there came the idea. People make houses |
| and contractors are coming up an increasing | | | | out of straw bales; why not Danielle Steel novels? |
| variety of alternative building materials that are | | | | Create chicken wire walls, shore them up with |
| environmentally friendly and sustainable. But I've | | | | plywood casts, dump in the Danielle Steel novels |
| got another idea; I want to build a home out of | | | | along with John Grisham books, Readers' Digest |
| Danielle Steel novels. | | | | Condensed Books, and other pulp fiction, and pour |
| I got the idea during a period when I was selling | | | | on the concrete. Voila! A Danielle Steel home, |
| some of my book collection over the Internet. | | | | perfect for the literati and the romantics among |
| When I ran out of my own books I started | | | | us. |
| looking for more at yard sales and library book | | | | Imagine how the cost of a home would decrease |
| sales, and quickly learned that some used books | | | | if, say, Habitat for Humanity would go on a pulp |
| are worth more than others. How-to books did | | | | fiction drive, asking for donations of battered, |
| well, as did New Age spirituality books. | | | | beat-up paperbacks to use for the walls of its |
| You couldn't pay people to take Danielle Steel | | | | homes. Imagine the families that would be able to |
| novels off your hands. The reason? The things | | | | buy these low-cost homes. |
| were bestsellers, and were printed and sold in the | | | | There is a potential housing revolution out there |
| millions. Everyone who could conceivably want a | | | | just waiting for us--all thanks to Danielle Steel. |
| Danielle Steel novel had apparently already bought | | | | |