Amazon books - a list of weird ones
Quite the list of book titles. From
Amazon comes:
Amazon Oddities and Weirdness: The Books
The list author says: "Amazon started off primarily as a book-seller, so I decided to start my listing of weird Amazon items with books. The list is of items that are, in and of themselves, weird, odd, insane, or offbeat. So this isn't a listing of great works of literature that are weird. These are weird items from a glance."
Heading up the list at Number One:
How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday
From one of the reviewers:
In a flurry of humor, depression, and morbid curiosity, I actually went and bought this damn book. I haven't read it cover to cover, but I've digested a good chunk of it. A significant portion of it is dedicated to reprinting USENET posts, where Nishigaki posts his ideas to a depression newsgroup, and every other poster gets completely and utterly baffled. The first few chapters are just this sense of back and forth. Then it launches into heavy theory, written in that zesty sense of "Engrish" as seen in the description. Its method for combating depression is something that I have yet to even consider trying, but as a general humor book, this is probably one of the funniest and most bizarre reads you'll encounter. I still randomly open to a page, read it, and feel better about whatever the heck was bringing me down in the first place. Get this book for comedy, not for advice.
The remaining 39 books in the list are just as bizarre and curious.
Posted by DaveH at February 21, 2009 8:58 PM
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