Odd books

[chickenfeet]

Do you have really odd books in your collection? I don't mean rare, specialised or recherche. I have dozens of those. I mean odd as in why was this book written and/or why on earth do I have a copy of it?

I found the following on my shelves:

A History of Shit by Dominique Laporte. It is just what it claims to be. What's particularly odd is that it is beautifully printed and bound.

Comrade Gulliver by Hugo Gjellen. This one is a rather heavy handed cold war era look at the USA from a communist perspective.

An Evil Tree - The Story of Communism by Agnes Murphy. This is a Roman Catholic (preface by the bishop of San Diego) denunciation of communism that makes Comrade Gulliver look positively witty and subtle.

Canexus - The Canoe in Canadian Culture eds Raffan and Horwood. Essays on everything from the fur trade to Captain Canoehead.

Les Exploits Sanglants du Jardinier Blott by Tom Sharpe. The French translation of Blott on the Landscape. Why? You may well ask!

The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert Proctor. Odd topic, interesting book.

Comments

[woundedtiger.livejournal.com]

The weirdest book in my collection is The Comet Kohoutek by Joseph P. Goodavage. Its prediction that Kohoutek would be the most spectacular comet of all time, when in fact it turned out to be barely visible, would make it an interesting curio of popular science.

The fact that the book postulates Venus to be a comet ripped away from the planet Jupiter, and suggests the presence of a Galactic Empire fashioned after Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, propels it into a category all its own.