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Listopia > Valerie's votes on the list I Picked It Up Because of the Title (25 Books)
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No, he's not a monkey, he's an ape and he's my son
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"'He' is a chimpanzee, and the title is uttered when the author takes him to the doctor for pneumonia.
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The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
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"I read this first, because I liked the title"
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The Neighbors Are Scaring My Wolf
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"Wacky neighbor books are a dime a dozen, but this one is odd even by those standards."
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The Compleat I Hate to Cook Book
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"The anecdotes are often better than the recipes"
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The Kudzu Cookbook: Cooking Up a Storm With That Wild & Crazy Vine That Grows in Miles-Per-Hour!
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"Lemons to lemonade?"
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Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown
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"Articles from the Journal of Irreproducible Results"
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No Facilities for Women
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"The book's not quite as interesting as the title, but it's a useful primary source for the area and the time."
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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"Not anything like complete. There's a later version, which is probably not complete either"
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The Flying Sorcerers
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"Bad puns, inside jokes (one of the women is named Zenna), and generally loopy silliness by an odd couple of science fiction humorists."
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Consider a Spherical Cow: A Course in Environmental Problem Solving
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"About estimating."
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The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
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"I always have trouble remembering the third pun."
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Report on Planet Three
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"This is hard to search for."
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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"Because he had visual agnosia."
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Prison and Chocolate Cake
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"The part played by the families of the Swaraj campaigners is too often overlooked."
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Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends
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"Based on interviews with Groucho."
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Why a Duck?: Visual and Verbal Gems from the Marx Brothers Movies
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"It's hard to reproduce the kinetic chaos of the Marx Brothers, but this book made a good start"
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Write If You Get Work : The Best of Bob and Ray
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"Bob and Ray are largely forgotten, but this is a good collection of their radio comedy."
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Missed It By That Much! (Get Smart, #5)
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"The Get Smart novelizations were every bit as funny as the show. But the catchphrases from the show were what made me realize that such novelizations existed."
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The Snake Has All the Lines
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"Adam may be the lead..."
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Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station 3
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""But now and then we wonder/what it means for the human race/that ghosts of generations past/are taking off for space""
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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
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"What use has leisure time? Read and discover."
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Why Women Cry or Wenches With Wrenches
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"Rosie the Riveter: did she have a housekeeper?"
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Fashion is Spinach
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"I had seen the original cartoon:
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The Island of the Colorblind
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"Not color-blind as in Daltonism (red/green, and very common); rather achromatopsia: true monochromatic colorblindness."
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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"Really the author, in this case: I knew he'd published a monograph, and this is it."
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