Bizarre
Books
by Russell Ash, Brian Lake
Delightful
Finds of A Book Collector
January 31, 2001
While browsing in one of London's classic book stores, I purchased
this thin book as a gag gift for a friend addicted to buying books
back in Los Angeles. My friend never received it. I kept it. You can't
let such an odd, funny, and unique book leave your hands. Each page
provides insight into strange obsessions and peculiar beliefs that
have grabbed writers. Some celebrate taboo lifestyles (The Madam as
Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution; Scalping in
America) while others document extreme optimism ( You Can Make a Stradivarius
Violin, Thirty-six Reasons for Believing in Everlasting Punishment)
and lots of dry British humor (Books in Bottles: The Curious in Literature,
and a blank book of 400 pages titled What Women Know About Men.)
An instant classic for book collectors and bookstore owners.
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