Library Lovers discussion

Yes I stole this line from Julie (I think). Just thought it would make a good discussion thread.

What books have you read that have an original or unique title? Or even a little bizarre? And does the book live up to the unusual title? Post them here!

The book that started this whole train of thought is: Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't? which Fishface says is a pretty loopie book.

I'll have to ponder this one. Like all right-thinking people I adore zany book titles.

One that springs to mind right away:

The Doll Who Ate His Mother
(The title does not live up to the weirdness of the book, frankly)

Oh, and

Jurassic Towel Origami: The Craft That Bath Time Forgot!
(the book is what it says it is. How to make extinct animals using towels!)

Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story.

Space Raptor Butt Invasion is a classic for our times. I have never read it but honestly, the title is enough all on its own. Most Chuck Tingle books have nutty names but this one also has terrific jacket art:

#10 in a series of paperbacks based on the musical comedy TV series, The Partridge Family:

Saw this in another GR book group which wishes to be nameless:

Pet Goats & Pap Smears

Be sure to check out the jacket art on this one, too.

How to Raise your IQ by Eating Gifted Children

You are what you eat after all!

Fishface wrote: "#10 in a series of paperbacks based on the musical comedy TV series, The Partridge Family:

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I wonder why I didnt know about those books all those years ago. I'm sure I would have wanted them.

It's probably not too late to find them!

Fishface wrote: "It's probably not too late to find them!"

Probably wouldn't get as much of a thrill 50 years later. But you never know.

Fishface wrote: "It's probably not too late to find them!"

I did read this one: Could It Be Forever?: My Story and liked it.

Just remembered this one:

The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification

One of my favorites ... and it's serious literary fiction, to boot

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

Huh. Is that a war waged BY his nether parts, AGAINST his nether parts, OVER his nether parts, or ON his nether parts?

Fishface wrote: "Huh. Is that a war waged BY his nether parts, AGAINST his nether parts, OVER his nether parts, or ON his nether parts?"

You'll have to read the book to find out ... LOL

Ah, but do I dare???

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Here's one I have right on my bookshelf in my cubicle:

Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Reading from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity

It's OK, kind of funny. The joke on the cover is something you would never understand unless you've steeped a bit in Freudian theory.

Fishface wrote: "Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Reading from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity"

That's a mouthful. :P

And a co-worker of mine, a vegetarian, freaked when she saw it because she thought it was serious.

Just saw this on Pinterest:

Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence

Fishface wrote: "Ah, but do I dare???

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Here's one I have right on my bookshelf in my cubicle:

[book:Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Reading from the Journal..."

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns - sure would make church much more interesting!

I have to like Lunatic Soup. True stories of the Australian prison system.

Have a Baby, My Wife Just Had a Cigar

I have read this one and loved it; it's a hilarious spoof about having and raising babies. The title captures it perfectly.

Preppies of the Apocalypse

Added comments to the ones I have actually read to answer Bel's other question.

I just stumbled across this title at Wikipedia, so I can't comment on whether it's as much fun as it sounds:

Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist: And Other Strange-but-True Tales from American History

I definitely plan to scare this book up and read it, though.

I simply cannot believe that I forgot one of my all-time favorite, prizewinning book titles:

Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants: The Art of the Paperback

This one isn't a huge standout or anything, but it gave me a smile:

A Shrink in the Clink

I just stumbled across this gem while I was snooping on someone's shelves:

I Never Would Have Slept With You If I Had Known You Were a Giant Birdman From Outer Space: Ancient Aliens and Other Mysteries of the Modern Mind

Fishface wrote: "Saw this in another GR book group which wishes to be nameless:

Pet Goats & Pap Smears

Be sure to check out the jacket art on this one, too."

ewwwww

Sheri wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Saw this in another GR book group which wishes to be nameless:

Pet Goats & Pap Smears

Be sure to check out the jacket art on this one, too."

ewwwww"

ewwwww is right... is there such a thing as too much imagination?

In theory, no, but that jacket art casts doubt on this foundational belief of my life.

Sheri wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Saw this in another GR book group which wishes to be nameless:

Pet Goats & Pap Smears

Be sure to check out the jacket art on this one, too."

ewwwww"

I love that title-Darn! It is not in my library system!!!

In the last few days GR has developed a glitch. It doesn't happen on a computer but when I am posting here from my phone, the POST button at the bottom of the text box refuses to appear unless I add a book link to the message. For the first couple of days I'd been using a link to How to Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books because it amuses me.

After a day or so of that I moved the humor up a notch by using Space Raptor Butt Invasion.

I'm telling you all this because when I changed over to the Chuck Tingle book, I discovered that he has expanded this masterwork into a series, adding Space Raptor Butt Ascension, Space Raptor Butt Redemption, and -- perhaps inevitably -- packaging it all into the not-to-be-missed Space Raptor Butt Trilogy.

And a just a couple minutes ago I was posting in a conversation on another forum here and a new Chuck Tingle opus appeared, in between 2 posts I made: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Butt Raptor.

What ever next???

Amish Vampires in Space

The one I'm reading now: I Hope You're Living as High on the Hog as the Pig You Turned Out to Be by country singer Bill Anderson.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned
Bimbos of the Death Sun
and
Zombies of the Gene Pool.
Mystery series main character Jay Omega is a college professor who writes serious SF but others give the books titles designed to boost sales rather than describe books. Have to wonder if it was personal experience or sympathy for other authors that led Sharyn McCrumb to write these.

Charlene wrote: "How to Raise your IQ by Eating Gifted Children"

Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Charlene wrote: "How to Raise your IQ by Eating Gifted Children"

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So -- a manual for hunters and trappers? Or more of a cookbook?

Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Charlene wrote: "How to Raise your IQ by Eating Gifted Children"

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Love it!

Who I Am by Pete Townshend has to be the best-named autobiography out there.

The Six-Gun Tarot

I get notices from Penguin Random House for books and this is one their White Elephant list: Fifty Shades of Chicken by FL Fowler

Makes me wonder whether "Fowler" is a pen name, like Dan Brine, the author of
The Da Vinci Cod: A Fishy Parody...

I don't know if this one has been mentioned before but I love Sedaris's books and this one is pretty odd. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Julie wrote: "I don't know if this one has been mentioned before but I love Sedaris's books and this one is pretty odd. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls"

Recently saw a clip of him talking about how to interview people he says, "I asked a lady when was the last time she touched a monkey, she replied 'Oh can you smell it?'"

How to Kill Friends and Implicate People

The NecroNomNomNom: A Cookbook of Eldritch Horror. Amazingly, there are TWO books out there with this title, so the "unique" criterion doesn't apply, but...

This totally violates Bel's rule about keeping our language clean, but it does add a title to this valuable list:

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

How to Pick Up Women with a Drunk Space Ninja by Jay Key.

Fishface wrote: "How to Kill Friends and Implicate People"

While checking my library to see if I could find this I found How To Kiss A Crocodile & Other Snappy Stories

Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Fishface wrote: "How to Kill Friends and Implicate People"

While checking my library to see if I could find this I found How To Kiss A Crocodile & Other Snappy Stories"

Love it!