Want some amusement? Read These.

[summer_jackel]

OK, I found this truly hilarious list of really odd book titles and had to share, because they really are that funny. Some of them are less so when you know the context; for instance, 'Bomb-Proof Your Horse' is a book I've looked at and a term in very common usage if you're a horse person. (Bomb-Proof, of course, refers to an animal less likely to spook at things and is therefore safer to ride). I can understand how it would be pretty funny to someone who wasn't horsey, though.

Still, I don't know if I want "Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service" or "Reusing Old Graves" explained, although I am seriously curious about "Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality."

And will someone please get me "The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories" (Kensington Publishing, 2003) for Yule or whatever this year? I think that it's a title that I really should own.

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[kynekh-amagire.livejournal.com]

I've read "The Joy of Chickens". Also, I think, the one about marmalade. (Once you've read everything good at your small, rural, donation-fed library, you move on to anything that looks odd or even vaguely interesting.) I also remember reading The Left-Handed Universe, which turned out to be about string theory, and My Friends in the Swarm which was a collection of inspirational stories of bee-keeping.

I agree that you need your own copy of The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories, if only so you can tell me whether it's the horses or the storytellers who are lesbians.

I agree that you need your own copy of The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm forwarding that one to literary_equine. You might actually hear his head explode...

However, this title from the list (and what it implies) really struck me:

1985: Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts (Westwood Publishing Co)

I don't know who wrote that one, but between 1985 and now they must have morphed into spammers, because my spam filters catch a LOT of those. "Think your way to Bigger Boobs;" that even beats the Biglerville Werehorse Cult.

[oldewolfe.livejournal.com]

"2006: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Harry N Abrams)"

The title makes me think of a photo essay of shopping carts found in unusual places.
Reid and I find stray shopping carts all the time while on our walks, but the one Friday afternoon was the cake-topper. A Wal-Mart shopping cart on the sidewalk in Ramona. The nearest Wal-Mart is in Poway...

Over 20 miles away.