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Re: Wacky/unusual books you own

Post by tattuchu » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:05 pm

Pappa wrote:Just write "Seamus the farting cat".
Well I've got Roger the farting alien, I suppose. I need to bring him back, I think, in a more mainstream adventure.
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Post by JimC » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:12 am

"Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach

"The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav
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Post by Trinity » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:18 am

JimC wrote:"Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach

"The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav
JLS is a beautiful book ♥

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Post by Faithfree » Thu Sep 05, 2013 1:09 pm

Trinity wrote:
JimC wrote:"Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach

"The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav
JLS is a beautiful book ♥
Don't have a copy, but I read it in the 70's when I was a nipper. :tup:
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Post by Mysturji » Thu Sep 05, 2013 1:38 pm

JimC wrote:"Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach

"The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav
Read the first two.
Still have the second, somewhere.
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Post by orpheus » Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:52 am

I long for a copy of the Codex Seraphinianus. I've come across a few copies in rare book sales, but they've always been much too expensive for me.


Nice, however, to see that several sites now offer the thing as a downloadable pdf.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:09 am

tattuchu wrote:
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PsychoSerenity wrote:I've got a very rare first edition of an exceedingly strange book called "Percy Gets Probed". :shifty:
Which reminds me - I have a book called "P.S. Your Cat is Dead".
A very weird read. I exchanged it for one I had finished reading while on holiday.
Wow, that's an old one... I read that back in high school, I think... haven't thought about it again till this! James Kirkwood... huh, and I see it was made into a film about a decade ago; I'd no idea!
For some reason this reminded me of Dr Rat, which I read as a kid. Any book that has the dialogue, "My b-b-balls are f-f-freezing, Dr Rat," in it is a winner as far as I'm concerned :awesome:

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Re: Wacky/unusual books you own

Post by rasetsu » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:25 pm



The Beginning Was The End: Man Came Into Being Through Cannibalism -- Intelligence Can Be Eaten
by Oscar Kiss Maerth

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This is the book that the new wave band DEVO based their 'philosophy' of de-evolution upon. If you watch the video for the song "What We Do" from their last CD, there is a woman in the video reading the book.



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Post by lofuji » Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:14 am

When I worked for BBC Publications in the late 1970s, I was once asked to clear out a cluttered stockroom. One book I came across I decided to keep for myself: I can't remember the exact title, because it's currently in my house in the UK, but it was a guide to the pronunciation of English place names published in the 1930s. I still enjoy thumbing through it, because you would not believe how far the accepted pronunciation has deviated from the spelling in the names of so many English villages.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. [
Macbeth]

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Post by lofuji » Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:25 am

Bloody internet. I didn't intend to post the same bollocks twice. :comp:
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. [
Macbeth]

It am wicked to mock the afflicted. [
BH (Calcutta), failed]

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Freewheelin' Franklin]

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Re: Wacky/unusual books you own

Post by piscator » Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:16 am

lofuji wrote:When I worked for BBC Publications in the late 1970s, I was once asked to clear out a cluttered stockroom. One book I came across I decided to keep for myself: I can't remember the exact title, because it's currently in my house in the UK, but it was a guide to the pronunciation of English place names published in the 1930s. I still enjoy thumbing through it, because you would not believe how far the accepted pronunciation has deviated from the spelling in the names of so many English villages.
You think it's bad in England? Go to Spain...

Srsly, insular cultures are always "insider cultures" full of little markers like the names of districts and restaurants.

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