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What book in your library would be the hardest to ex[lain if the police did a sqaure search ?
Both in terms of naughty and amusing .

― anthony, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ha! The section of the library I partially oversee has what is called the 'Protected Collection,' which contains enough stuff to get the morality police up in arms on a regular basis. But we're a state university, so screw 'em. Annie Sprinkle bios, in-depth studies of Tom of Finland's work, you name it.

What's hilarious is seeing the inevitable freshman males there flipping through things -- there will almost always be somebody.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a leather bound De Sade , The Golden Fountain, Sodomy and the Priate Traditon and a Dirty Tin Tin just to start.

― anthony, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a de Sade book. A couple of dirty comic books (I got from my parents actually). A few books by Dennis Cooper. I wouldn't have any problems with them finding those books. Explaining the dead bodies is something different. ;-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The 'Murder Can Be Fun' and 'How to Kill' serii (the latter is subtitled 'Kill Without Joy!'), 'Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer'(Masters), the 'Answer Me!' bound collection, the PDR (last three editions), 'SCUM Manifesto', '120 Days in Sodom', 'Knockin' on Joe'(Sondra London - Feral Press, great book! 1st person death-row stories including a fantasy involving necrophilia and Old Sparky), Carl Panzram's memoirs, assorted extremist pamphlets handed out by street weirdos ("The WORLDWIDE JEW CONSPIRASY is FLOURIDATING our WATER so MICROSOFT watches US throgh our TELEVISIONS etc.")

I also have a copy of 'The Turner Diaries', but I file that next to my collection of 'Final Call' newsletters just so people don't get the wrong idea.

― dave q, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have the scum manifesto and the turner diaries as well.

― anthony, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, the worst I've got is a Georges Bataille book - that's not that bad, is it?

― Madchen, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Given the nature of police in Chicago - probably my books on Marxism, Anarchy and prostitution. I have a book on Richard Speck that sympathizes with him and pissed off the Bungalow Belt Joe who sold it to me. But on a related note, I did have a boss come over once when Sabotage in the American Workplace was in full view.

― Kerry, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The best story in 'Sabotage' is the one where they're working at a liquor wholesaler, and since it's about to go bust they just sit around drinking the stock all day and drive forklifts around in the warehouse while stinking drunk. One anecdote in there that I gleefully adopted was the PG&E story, where somebody who is entrusted to deliver mail to various high-level employees just throws it all in the shredder instead.

― dave q, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know if my tatty old bookshelf counts as a library, but if it does, then my answer is probably Tony Hawks' opus Playing The Moldovans At Tennis, which a friend gave me in error. I haven't read it yet. I think it comes somewhere after Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in my list of 'must reads'.

I realise the police wouldn't be very interested in it, but they should be.

― Nick, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have too many books about Nazis, they will probably think I am one. And my Bret Easton Ellis collection might raise an eyebrow. But that's about it.

― Ally, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah wait, our own personal collections? This is what happens when I read the question differently from everyone else. ;-)

As to what I have -- well, I've got the DVD that just came out of _Triumph of the Will_, but then again, not a book. _The Book of Mormon_ might not outrage the police, but it might befuddle others. Beyond that, fuck if I know what's meant to be offensive by Orange County standards, probably half my collection.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

celestine prophecy - no wait, i gave that away...um, idiot's guide to managing yr time (it's quite good officer)

― Geoff, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, I have an illegal (?) autobiography of a Belgian serial killer. His lawyer gave it to me. Signed it as well. This was during my obsession with serial killers. Never met the guy though.
Also have some nudie pics of the 1920s. I wonder what happened to the people on the pics.

Also have quite a few books on horror/cannabilism and so on.

― nathalie, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a couple of books on terrorism (but only classy terrorists like Baader Meinhof or crazy ones like the Mardi Gras bomber). I've got the SCUM manifesto as well but it's really good. That's about it though, the rest of my bookcase is filled with tatty copies of Billy Liar and novelisations of Ghostbusters and Tron.

― jamesmichaelward, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've got 'Philosophy of the boudoir', and that's about as racy as my book collection gets. Ned, I've got 'Triumph Of The Will' on VHS, what did you think? It bored me to tears.

― DG, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wld not be too happy if the Library Cops found my copy of Larry Clark's 'The Perfect Childhood' (esp. after all the Saatchi Gallery brouhaha). Also know for a fact that customs don't let people bring Peter Sotos bks into the UK (despite the fact that he's published over here by Creation - now there's a tabloid outrage waiting to happen) so 'Apocalypse Culture 2' prob. wouldn't go down too well either (although I saw it on sale at the Royal Academy bookshop during the 'Apocalypse' exhibition!) The rape issue of 'Answer Me' another big no-no - AK Press in Scotland got into some deep shit when they tried to distribute it in the UK. 'Death Scenes', the Feral House collection of corpse pics, almost certainly the most unplesant bk I own.

When '120 Days of Sodom' was reissued in paperback some time in the 1990s, a gobshite MP tried and failed to get it banned. Basically the Obscene Publications Squad now find it almost impossible to secure prosecutions for routine forms of filth, hence the BBFC now passing uncut porn as R18s, although pissing, fisting, most forms of torture still utterly illegal.

― Andrew L, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

revive

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 19 January 2003 07:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I considered picking up a copy of the Turner Diaries that I found in a second-hand bookstore, to include in my collection of utopian books (seriously, the politics are the only difference between it and Jack London's The Iron Heel.

However, if my collection were to be raided, the biggest issue would probably be all the stuff by Aldous Huxley -- who advocated drugs! and peace!

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 19 January 2003 09:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i think the raciest thing i have is the history of sexuality vol 1 by foucault. which isn't very racey, really. i failed.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 19 January 2003 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Unless I've got the wrong bloke it would have been a hell of a lot racier if M. Foucault had made his subject the history of his own sexuality. By all accounts he was as bent as 'une screu de corque' and there was not a living organism on earth safe from his advances.

― Fred Nerk, Sunday, 19 January 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh. Ah. Um. I'm in the audio/visual section, so, um, I guess the Cine Nova set of videos. 6 of them. Annie Sprinkle is one of the 'milder' ones. Also we have a video of Franco B bleeding himself onto canvas (while shaven and painted white, of course) in the name of 'art'.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 19 January 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I am just researching pornography.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

foccult liked to express the mind body dialectic while having a fist up his arse in all of the best bathhouses in paris,london,new york and des moines.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

If Foucault and a few thousand of his countrymen ever did descend on D.M. it may start to convince the locals that their town name should not be pronounced like it's short for Desmond Moynihan.

― Fred Nerk, Saturday, 8 February 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Paul Stamets:
Psychedelic Mushrooms of the World
The Mushroom Cultivator

Alexander and Ann Shulgin:
Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved: A Chemical Love Story
Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved: The Followup

Trevor Brown:
My Alphabet (1st ed.)

Various:
The Jolly Roger's Cookbook
(way less foolhardy and more versatile than the Anarchist's Handbook but still hysterically inaccurate when cross-referenced with something like a few issues of 2600, a pyrotechnics safety handbook, or the military munitions black book)

James Howard Hatfield:
Fortunate Son: George W. Bush And The Making Of An American President
(tame, but these days, were you to check it out as oppossed to buy it, that would probably be grounds for the feds to check your records...especially if you had any interest in organic chemistry, balistics, etc)

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Saturday, 8 February 2003 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

http://skua.gps.caltech.edu/hermann/upc/HermannFlug.jpg

― Dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

dude across from me in the library right now is on his cell phone going "mm-hmm...mmmhmm...mmmhmm! i know it! mmm-hmm..."

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 April 2008 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

ASDLK FJASDLK FJASDFJSADL FJAWEUFWS FUSJF

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 April 2008 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe his curious mind was channeling Major Lance and Curtis Mayfield.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 April 2008 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

now he has gotten up from his comp and wandered into the reference section continuing his affirmations

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 April 2008 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

did anthony make 11 threads a day?

― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 21 April 2008 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

I was just thinking about this thread! I think the Loompanics books I have would arouse some or another suspicion, ie How to Steal Food From the Grocery Store.

― Abbott, Monday, 21 April 2008 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Hardest to explain book? The Mumonkan. Those koans just don't lend themselves to easy explanantion.

― Aimless, Monday, 21 April 2008 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

oh man

― Abbott, Monday, 21 April 2008 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i just wanna say i accidentally took out a noncirculating book today

― harbl, Saturday, 27 February 2010 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

I stole a Gore Vidal book from my high school's library, by accident. That is, there was never anyone at work there as far as I could tell, so I was used to just grabbing books I wanted to read and taking them home, then popping them back on the shelf later. This one I found in my parents home many years later. I would've returned it then, but by then the library was shut down, presumably out of disgust with some horrible teenage savage pinching their only copy of "Julian".
So, it's on my shelf, still bearing a library seal, but no big library stamp saying "fuck this shit."
Mr Bookman's right on my tail, I can feel it, me and my good-time buddies are in for it.

― Øystein, Saturday, 27 February 2010 23:08 (sixteen years ago)

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