books you own the title makes you chuckle too much over to ever read

3. "You Are Not the Target: A Practical Manual of How to Cope With a World of Bewildering Change" -- Laura Archera Huxley

I picked it up in a giveaway pile in the basement of my apartment building at the time.

4. "spoiled priest: the frank & shocking confessions of an ex-priest" by gabriel longo

pulp autobiography from the 60s. back cover reads:

GABRIEL LONGO IS NOT A STATISTIC. HE IS A MAN. HE WAS A PRIEST. AND THIS IS HIS ASTONISHINGLY FRANK STORY...

I'm afraid to read it, it might not live up to my wild expectation.

(this is languishing a bit)

i don't actually own this but we have a book in the stacks here by william johnston called:

LIMPY: THE BOY WHO FELT NEGLECTED

i thought that was by jonathan safran foer

I Couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn - by Charlie Chaplin's son Michael. wtf? Found in a used bookshop somewhere and also has a classic tie-dyed paisley pop art w/hippy dude lounging in center cover.

DARKNESS VISIBLE: bought because of kreepy miltonic title, and it's some kind of christian investigation of the inner workings of freemasonry. i cracked it once and it was boring as fuck, no idea how that's possible but there u go

I don't own this, but I saw a book called "Habeas Corpses" at a bookstore the other day. With a buxom undead woman holding a crossbow or something on the cover.

also, the pull quote on the dust jacket of LIMPY reads:

"Irvin S. Cobb says: Someone may have written a truer, sweeter, more appealing, more convincing story of a boy than 'Limpy,' but nobody ever has."

!!!

i laffed a lot when i found a british suspense novel called A DAISY CHAIN FOR SATAN in the stacks when i first started working here

DARKNESS VISIBLE

This is also the title of a memoir by William Styron of his battle with depression.

and also the title of a novel by william golding!

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btw i really did order this and have read it and its awesome

I made a little theme song to go with my never-to-be-read copy of "The Womanly Art Of Breastfeeding".

Don't read Womanly Art of Breastfeeding; it is disappointingly dull.

(But do share the theme song.)

It's just the title, sung slow, sexy, and a bit high pitched, with a little pregnant pause after "breast".

There Are No Happy Junkies

At once, as far as Angel’s ken, he views
The dismal situation waste and wild. 60
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames
No light; but rather darkness visible
Served only to discover sights of woe,
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 65
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes to all, but torture without end
Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed
With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.

The Fear of Women: An Inquiry Into the Enigma of Woman and Why Men Through the Ages Have Both Loved and Dreaded Her. By Wolfgang Lederer, M.D. Copyright 1968.

But I have, of course, read most of this one.

i never laughed at this book title (own it, have read it, liked it) until jergins pointed out the obscenity of it. now i can't take it seriously:

They Came Like Swallows -- William Maxwell

The only one I can find that fits this category is "Chant and be Happy" which is some hare krisna book I was conned into buying once. It has a picture of George Harrison on the cover I think. I've skimmed it but never read it.

i'm not sure exactly why, but i tend to dislike titles which includes only a name of a character from the book.
like "absalom absalom!", or "austerlitz".
i'm reading some faulkner lately, but i'd read "absalom" only at the end, though i know it's suppose to be one of his best,just because of that title.

...Austerlitz is a town.

and also the name of a character from the book with that title by Sebald

OH MAN How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?

I know what my friend's getting for her birthday.

<i>Christie's Old Organ</i>. I have actually read a page or two of it, chiefly for this passage:

<i>"No," said Christie, "you mustn't think of it, Master Treffy. Let me
see, what can we do? Shall _I_ take the organ out?"

Old Treffy did not answer; a great struggle was going on in his mind.
Could he let any one but himself touch his dear old organ? It would be
very hard to see it go out, and have to stay behind,--very hard indeed.</i>

Oh right, bbcode.

Mutant Message Fron Down Under - a friend gave me this (for no reason that I can fathom) and there is absolutely no way that I'm ever going read it. It would appear to be some sort of new agey, self-help book - which, for me, is two reasons not to read it.

It sits forlorn on my bookshelf, I suspect the other books don't talk to it.

i've read mutant message, don't bother

i have also found an early 20th century british children's book called THE JOLLY CHINEE

(first sentence paraphrased: "Wee Wo Wang was a jolly Chinee, and every morning when he woke up and rubbed his funny almond-shaped eyes" etc.)