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Post by Svartalf » Tue Sep 03, 2013 3:16 pm

Must admit that my curiosity is piqued too...

Did I mention that I am a Role Playing Game aficionado and have some baroque pearls in my collections, such as games that reproduce magical girl anime, or US high school life including rules for sex and drugs (but no mention of Rock'n Roll)?
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Post by Trinity » Tue Sep 03, 2013 3:37 pm

Wow!
I used to have a friend who tried to invent one. I never knew if he finished it...

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Post by orpheus » Wed Sep 04, 2013 4:19 am

All the books I've collected by Georges Perec. Total nutjob, total genius, astoundingly creative takes on what writing could be. Tragic death at the obscene age of 36 or something like that.

Highly, highly recommended.

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Post by Pappa » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:08 am

I've got a few odd ones, but in the meantime, here's my bookshelf:

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 425#p70425

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Post by Mysturji » Wed Sep 04, 2013 12:44 pm

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.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:19 pm

Mysturji wrote:
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!
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Post by Svartalf » Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:24 pm

One book I'm going to put on the wacky shelf if I don't dispose of it when I'm done with it is titled 'The God Delusion'
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Post by Faithfree » Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:26 pm

I have an unabridged republication of a 1928 translation of The Malleus Maleficarum. I'll admit I haven't actually read it.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:29 pm

Faithfree wrote:I have an unabridged republication of a 1928 translation of The Malleus Maleficarum. I'll admit I haven't actually read it.
I have that somewhere too. Or maybe I do - I may have sold it along with the rest of my old pagan/witchy books.
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Post by Thinking Aloud » Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:33 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Faithfree wrote:I have an unabridged republication of a 1928 translation of The Malleus Maleficarum. I'll admit I haven't actually read it.
I have that somewhere too. Or maybe I do - I may have sold it along with the rest of my old pagan/witchy books.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:38 pm

Thinking Aloud wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:
Faithfree wrote:I have an unabridged republication of a 1928 translation of The Malleus Maleficarum. I'll admit I haven't actually read it.
I have that somewhere too. Or maybe I do - I may have sold it along with the rest of my old pagan/witchy books.
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Post by Thinking Aloud » Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:18 pm

That'll do.

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Post by tattuchu » Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:47 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Mysturji wrote:
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:

http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Rat-Willia ... 1617562564
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Post by tattuchu » Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:55 pm

Dear god in Heaven. Walter the Farting Dog. Why didn't I think of this :funny:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_ ... ting%20dog
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Re: Wacky/unusual books you own

Post by Pappa » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:03 pm

Just write "Seamus the farting cat".

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