# An Odd Little Book You Love **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-little-book-you-love/48535 "2001-01-05T05:43:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![eponymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@eponymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eponymous)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-little-book-you-love/48535/61 "2001-01-18T14:36:33Z")
Here’s another one I came across. I have it, but haven’t had a chance to read it yet. [Holes](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/026253133X/qid=979828282/sr=1-5/ref=sc_b_5/107-6106732-4043718) by Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-little-book-you-love/48535/62 "2001-01-18T15:17:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by betenoir \* > **if you see it by chance at a used book sale (like I did) for Yottle’s sake snap it up.** Try to get a copy with the Boris Artzybasheff illustrations. The only thing in the world cooler than a copy of THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO is a copy of THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO with Artzybasheff illustrations. [http://www.bpib.com/artzybas.htm](http://www.bpib.com/artzybas.htm) By the way, I thought it was a Russian. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-little-book-you-love/48535/63 "2001-01-18T15:33:35Z")
Goodness, I was away when this thread started. OK, thanks to [bookfinder.com](http://bookfinder.com), these can all be found now! Three 1930s crime potboilers—“13 Women,” “13 Men” and “Call Her Savage,” all by Tiffany Thayer. So hard-boiled ya could roll 'em on the White House lawn. “Show Girl” and “Hollywood Girl,” both by J.P. McEvoy, 1929 and '30. Hilarious, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”-like comic novels. “Now, Voyager” bu Olive Higgens Prouty. If you loved the movie, you’ll love the book. “Little Me” by Patrick Dennis. A scream. Several screams, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-little-book-you-love/48535/64 "2001-01-18T15:58:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*“Little Me” by Patrick Dennis. A scream. Several screams, in fact. \*\* Always loved Patrick Dennis. . . light reading but fun. Anybody read “Uncle Mame” yet? Is it worthwhile? Turns out Dennis had a life more amazing than anything he ever wrote. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-little-book-you-love/48535/65 "2001-01-18T16:18:23Z")
“Anybody read ‘Uncle Mame’ yet? Is it worthwhile?” Funny you should ask, dear—I am having dinner with the author, Eric Myers, tomorrow night. Excellent book, by the way (do you think I’d dine with crummy authors?). ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-little-book-you-love/48535/66 "2001-01-18T16:20:01Z")
I loved the Nicholson Baker books already listed here: he’s one of my favorite authors. Another treasure: Microserfs, Generation X and Life After God, all by Douglas Coupland. A fine Canadian writer. Microserfs is my favorite: it’s about a bunch of young Microsoft employees who break out and start their own software company. Wonderful Generation X imagery and cultural references. Anything by Carl Hiaasen. If you live in or love Florida, you’ll love this guy’s work. Favorites include: Tourist Season. And the one he wrote about Hurricane Andrew, Stormy Weather. (It’s mostly hilarious accounts of the insurance scammers who took over Dade County in the aftermath.) Crab Apple: I forget the author. It’s a picture book – or it has about 10 words in it. Hysterically funny… about a little apple who is crabby and gets his due from a crabbier little worm. Eistein’s Dreams was by Alan Lightman or something like that. Also a really good book; someone else mentioned here on page one, I think. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-little-book-you-love/48535/67 "2001-01-18T22:37:03Z")
I’m nominating a whole collection of odd little books: _Everybody Poops_ _The Holes in your Nose_ _The Gass We Pass_ All (I think) are by Shinta Cho. They teach kids about bodily functions & why we have them. The writing is kind of funny, but even better, the pictures are a riot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-little-book-you-love/48535.md?page=3)