Would you pay for Tendulkar's blood?

[bibblebub]

http://www.guardian.c...ndulkar-blood-memoirs

There are going to be 10 copies of his autobiography printed with the signature page made from paper pulp mixed with his blood. The book is 1/2 metre square, weighs 37 kg, and the 852 pages are edged in gold leaf.

All for $75,000.

What nutter (other than his family) would fork out for that?

[jno]

there are many rich Indians, some of whom regard him as one of the greatest cricketers. Perhaps it would have sounded less gory if they'd just woven a lock of his hair into the paper.

[boxtops]

I find that rather gruesome.

[bibblebub]

I'm going to have to buy a new bookcase because it won't fit on any of the shelves.

Either that or pay some out of work waif to stand in a corner of the room and hold it ready for reading.

[snags]

The New Zealand All Blacks did a similar thing a few years ago: their limited edition 'Bonded by Blood' team poster had blood taken from that year's team mixed with the printer's ink.