Yes, you heard me right. A red paperclip. Not just *a*, but *one*. Not blue, or green, or purple. But amazing, dazzling, bright, bold, lovely, passionate, angry, ferocious red.
Okay, SPOILER ALERT!!! WARNING: I am about to do the one thing a booklogger (book-review-writing blogger, like me) shouldn't do. I am going to reveal the end of the book. Most people who READ the book probably knew the ending. Actually, it says the ending on the *back* of the *book*. So dude, I think this is okay to do.
One Red Paperclip is about Kyle's, a Canadian's, desire to support him and his girlfriend, Dominique, who he refers to throughout the book as Dom. He's currently "between jobs", and sweet Dom helps him out. He's feeling frustrated and upset that he has to take from his girlfriend, so one day he's reminiscing about when he was a kid and when he played a game called Bigger and Better with his friends. They would spend a day, starting with a small item, and go door-to-door trading up to (you guessed it) bigger and better items. Kyle and his friends joked around, saying someday they could trade up to a car.
At first, it was just a crazy idea.
But it turned into a frenzy.
Kyle posted ads all over Craigslist for "one red paperclip". At first, offers trickled in, but when the idea spread around, they FLOWED. Kyle built a site and, as he got item after item, he went on more and more TV news shows, radio news programs, appeared in newspapers everywhere, online articles and other people's blogs. In no time, thanks to the cyberspacial generation (ooh, I just made up a word), Kyle's idea was everywhere.
Kyle traded the paperclip for a fish pen. For a doorknob. Hand-sculpted. For a camping stove. With fuel. For a generator. Which he couldn't take on the airplane. For an instant party. Which was odd. Offers rolled in. Highlight the next part if you want to find out what happened in the end. Kyle got a house in Kipling, Canada! They offered to trade it for the "one credited, speaking role in a movie" he received from Corbin Bernsen (yes, the dad on Psych). He got the movie role because he traded Corbin a light-up snowglobe that he got from this other guy who--oh, scratch this, I could go on all day.
Thanks for reading! Check out One Red Paperclip, it's an amazing book with some inspirational quotes nestled secretively in some of the pages, especially close to the end. Bye! PS--Wish me good luck, in one week is Theatre Production auditions!! MEEP!!!
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