# What's the strangest book you own? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-book-you-own/163347 "2003-03-22T12:17:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-book-you-own/163347/101 "2003-03-28T07:44:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock \* > \*\*Hey, **Purd** , just out of curiosity: what would you take for your _Codex_, dollar-wise? I’ve wanted one of those for a while. My email’s down there somewhere… \*\* I paid about 200 Euros, ($180). As long as your patient, look at [abebooks.com](http://abebooks.com), and you can find one for a similar price. You just have to wait a couple of months while it’s shipped here. It’s cheaper from Italy than it is from anywhere in the states. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-book-you-own/163347/102 "2003-03-28T11:42:51Z")
I don’t own it (yet), but I saw this one the other day in a bookstore: **The Day my Butt went Psycho!** [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0439424690/qid=1048851867/sr=1-1/ref=sr\_1\_1/104-3308652-9778344?v=glance&s=books](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0439424690/qid=1048851867/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3308652-9778344?v=glance&s=books) ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-book-you-own/163347/103 "2003-03-28T15:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > \*\*I don’t own it (yet), but I saw this one the other day in a bookstore: > > **The Day my Butt went Psycho!** > > [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0439424690/qid=1048851867/sr=1-1/ref=sr\_1\_1/104-3308652-9778344?v=glance&s=books](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0439424690/qid=1048851867/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3308652-9778344?v=glance&s=books) \*\* So **lieu** finally wrote his memoirs? ---
**Author:** ![Milum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Milum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milum)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-book-you-own/163347/104 "2003-03-28T18:58:11Z")
I have only three strange books and all of them are by \*\* R.A. Lafferty\*\*… \*\*The Devil is Dead Okla Hanalia Nine hundred Grandmothers \*\*(short stories) Here’s a short story example of his literary mind… \*\*Eurema’s Dam \*\* (Just the intro) _He was about the last of them. What ? The last of the great individualists ? The last of the true creative geniuses of the century ? The last of the sheer precursors ? No. No. He was the last of the dolts. Kids were being born smarter all the time when he came along, and they would be so forever more. He was about the last dumb kid ever born._ ---
**Author:** ![kalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kalex)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-book-you-own/163347/105 "2003-03-29T02:09:37Z")
I have House of Leaves also…creepy…but the strangest is probably a book I’ve had since I was a child called Arm in Arm by Remy Charlip. It’s a hardback book full of little cartoons and puns and poems. The inside cover reads ‘A collection of connections Endless Tales Reiterations and other echolalia.’ Yes, it’s a childrens book! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-book-you-own/163347.md?page=5)