# Weirdest Books You Own **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654 "2004-04-07T00:24:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654/121 "2018-05-23T21:29:17Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [\*\*[URL=“https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780307780263”]Saints Preserve Us: Everything You’ll Ever Need to Know About Any Saint You’ll Ever Need.](http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Stumpke/pics/cover_01.jpg)\*\* > **[Who In Hell: A Guide to the Whole Damn Bunch](https://ssli.ebayimg.com/images/g/1qMAAOSwBnVW-zxs/s-l1600.jpg)** I have “Saints Preserve Us” and don’t think it’s that weird. It’s a humorous series of short hagiographies of some of more notable saints and could just as well be titled “Saints for Dummies (i.e., Protestants)”. I didn’t care as much for the “Who In Hell” guide since it was mostly a series of ["Take Thats"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat)against dead people the author personally didn’t like. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654/122 "2018-05-23T21:53:52Z")
_History Laid Bare: Love, Sex, and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding_ by Richard Zacks. _The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Have Actually Dreamed Up, Enacted, and Sometimes Even Enforced_ by Kevin Underhill _The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History’s 100 Worst Atrocities_ by Matthew White ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654/123 "2018-05-25T03:14:33Z")
> [@Rough\_Draft](#): > > I also have a book of photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin. If you’re unfamiliar with him, just do a Google image search. He’s a great photographer who absolutely defines the word **Weird**. Wow. You got THAT right. Might want to add that most of the images are NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654/124 "2018-05-25T05:48:34Z")
I had a book. That was supposed to be the Bible of the bagwhan rajneeshs group …other than dirty jokes and parables the only thing I understood was overachieving was bad …and I read that damn book 5 times… ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654/125 "2018-05-25T05:59:10Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Wow. You got THAT right. Might want to add that most of the images are NSFW. Never had heard of him before, so I just had a look. Wow. I found his (amazing) images a little disturbing at some visceral level, the same creepy feeling that Giger’s work evokes in me. But what an imagination he has. I’m definitely going to have a closer look. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654/126 "2018-05-25T06:24:12Z")
**A History of Cannibalism: From Ancient Cultures to Survival Stories and Modern Psychopaths** by Peter Constantine I saw it when I was at Half-Price Books the one time and I was like, shit, I HAVE to buy that! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654.md?page=6)