# Hit over the head with a book? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 1, 1999, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-over-the-head-with-a-book/7415 "1999-09-01T04:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2

**Author:** ![topolino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/91b2a8/32.png) [@topolino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/topolino)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-over-the-head-with-a-book/7415/21 "1999-09-03T03:44:00Z")

> [@](#): > > “I have lived in the Monster” by Robert K. > Ressler. Ooo…I didn’t know he’d put out another book. I’ve read “Whoever Fights Monsters.” Now I’ve got another book to add to my ever expanding list of books to read. * * * “Never got this hot in Brooklyn. This is like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot…I don’t know if I can stay here if it’s gonna be this hot.” -Matthew Broderick in “Biloxi Blues” ---

**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-over-the-head-with-a-book/7415/22 "1999-09-03T04:00:00Z")

I have to chime in my agreement on “Lord of the Flies” I read it in high school, and my copy was bought at a used bookstore, the pages were yellow and had that “old decaying paperback” smell… I felt like washing my hands every time I read it, and that smell still bothers me. * * * **\>^,^\<** “Cluemobile? You’ve got a pickup…” OpalCat’s site: [http://fathom.org/opalcat](http://fathom.org/opalcat) The Teeming Millions Homepage: [fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) ---

**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-over-the-head-with-a-book/7415/23 "1999-09-03T04:15:00Z")

Lord of the Flies didn’t bother me a bit. Am I a psycho? I have another submission: “The Story of O”. It’s supposed to be erotic S&M; I found it way too heavy on the S&M and low on the eros. It definitely makes Ann Rice’s series of “Sleeping Beauty” S&M erotica look like the harmless fluff it is. I never got past the first book of “Bio of a Space Tyrant” either. Piers’ first books in a series have always been his best; I didn’t want to read anything that got _worse_ than that first one! * * * “Eppur, si muove!” - Galileo Galilei ---

**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-over-the-head-with-a-book/7415/24 "1999-09-03T23:23:00Z")

Topolino – I tried responding to your question via e-mail but it didn’t work. (?) If you really want to know more about the Kosinski book, it’s reviewed at Amazon. Somehow, I thought there might be a website devoted to it (it’s kind of a cult favorite) but all I could find (using Dogpile anyway) were sites about real birds or paintings of birds. (So logical.) ---

**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 1999, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-over-the-head-with-a-book/7415/25 "1999-09-04T05:26:00Z")

AuntiePam, here’s a website on Jerry Kosinski. There’s alot I never new about him. [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8200/kosinski.htm](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8200/kosinski.htm) trisha * * * He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice - Albert Einstein ---

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