Ok…here’s the only one I can remember from work…How about
Scotch and Holy Water…cna’t remember the author…about a guy’s sojourn in Turkey…and I must take a moment to stand up for the Tom Swift series by Victor Appleton…while as an adult, I think they’re horrible…that was the series of books that first got me interested in reading…I buy them whenever I come across them, and they’ll be some of the first books my children read…
I have the worst book ever written
“Elsie Dinsmore” a treacly tract about the trials of this idiot girl who insists on being a martyr. Very popular book in the late 1800s to torture little girls with. After reading this book you want to go out, attack men, smoke cigarettes, and get drunk!
Hey TubaDiva, do you have Carpe Jugulum yet?
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
—The dragon observes
Anyone else have:
Rats, Lice, and History?
Or, in the children’s section,
Finn Familty Moomintroll?
Family. Crap.
I bet no one out there has:
A field guide to Cows
How to insult, abuse and insinuate in classical latin.
Yep to Rats Lice and History!
I don’t have much that is unusual…but I do have a few of the books mentioned. (Bored of the Rings, etc.)
Jess: I used to have Coffee, Tea or Me and Daddy Long-Legs! (they got lost somewhere, though).
Tuba: Who wrote “Wanda Hickey…” ? I remember reading it in high school.
My contributions:
The Book of Sex Lists - compiled by Albert B. Gerber
What Mad Universe - Fredric Brown
Dickens’ Fur Coat and Charlotte’s Unanswered Letters - Daniel Pool
The Literary Almanac
Literature Lover’s Book of List - Judie L. H. Strouf
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895)
Someone mentioned “The Book of Five Rings” Were you referring to the novel or of the Go Rin No Sho by Miyamoto Musashi? I also have the Go Rin No Sho.
Don’t let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey.
I don’t own Dickens’ Fur Coat … but I do have Daniel Pool’s first book, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew.
Sorry to interrupt. I’d just like to say this is my first thread to live past 100. I’m very, very proud of it. Now, carry on!
And I’m tryin’ to help Greg.
You want obscure? I’ve got the the complete works of noted anthropologist Edward Norbeck including Pineapple Town, Religion in Primitive Society, Country to City…(I think there’s 13 in all).
Wow! Great list! Some I actually have, but what a great bunch to track down
BTW, cheers for Reay Tannahill; Food in History could only be compared to her Sex in history.
Probably the oddest:
Flattened fauna–shows the squished outline of common animals, with some very informative stuff about the critter. The idea is that most Americans see wildlife in the roadkill stage.
And Budge’s guide to the Book of the Dead. Hey, I’m an lapsed anthro/archo freak. Never know when you’re going to discover a fabulous Egyptian tomb .
Oh, and Harvard Lampoon’s Bored of the Rings. Sigh. It was so funny it was worth completely spoiling Tolkien.