10 of the strangest books, selected by Edward Brooke-Hitching

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
A Manual of Mathematics (Jinko ̄ki), author unknown, early 17th century	4
20 Slices of American Cheese by Ben Denzer (2018)	1
Pátria Amada by Vinicius Leôncio (2014)	1
La Confession Coupée ... ou la méthode facile pour se préparer aux confessions by Christophe Leuterbreuver (1677)	1
Compendium of Demonology and Magic, author and date unknown	1
The Triangular Book of Count St Germain (circa 1750)	1
Poissons, écrevisses et crabes by Louis Renard (1719)	0
Book 17th of Notes – Travels in 1818 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1818)	0
De integritatis et corruptionis virginum by Séverin Pineau (1663)	0
Saddam Hussein’s Blood Qur’an (circa 1999)	0

― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:44 (four years ago)

This one deserves a full month. There is much to ponder here.

― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:46 (four years ago)

"He was so old, he said, that he had attended the wedding at Cana where Jesus turned water to wine"

lol, Count St Germain sounds like an amusing lad.

― calzino, Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:55 (four years ago)

mmmmm...20 slices of American cheese

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:57 (four years ago)

gotta be the rat math

― sleeve, Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:58 (four years ago)

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― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 1 October 2020 14:59 (four years ago)

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― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 1 October 2020 15:00 (four years ago)

Pátria Amada seems a fairly amazing project... The sort of protest work I'd love to see on display in a legislature's lobby.

― Voulez-vous un coup d'etat, ce soir? (Sanpaku), Thursday, 1 October 2020 16:37 (four years ago)

Should also include Saddam Hussein's romance novel.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 3 October 2020 08:39 (four years ago)

three weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 30 October 2020 00:01 (four years ago)

Voted for the mathematical rats.

A Manual of Mathematics (Jinko ̄ki), author unknown, early 17th century

― brain (krakow), Friday, 30 October 2020 09:53 (four years ago)

I'm very taken by the Brazilian lawyer's mammoth endeavour as well though. It feels like something that would appear in a David Foster Wallace story (I guess The Pale King's tax themes make that connection for me especially).

― brain (krakow), Friday, 30 October 2020 09:55 (four years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:01 (four years ago)

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