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Weird Reading – the strangest books you’ll find to read on Amazon
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Amazon has become the new world library with literally millions of reading options.
Along with 273,000 Bible topics and 71,000+ options for Shakespeare there are some pretty weird books on it’s shelves. Here are a few for your reading pleasure.
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* The Zen of Farting - ”A book about the spiritual lessons of flatulence by a Buddhist teacher with a conspicuous name”
* English as a Second F*cking Language: How to Swear Effectively, Explained in Detail with Numerous Examples Taken From Everyday Life
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* Modern German Humor ’nuff said
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* Shechita Barbaric? Oy Vay! Have You Seen the Spanish Method of Cattle Slaughter?: A Sideways Look at the More >
Stieg Larsson – The Millenium Trilogy
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Stieg Larsson wrote an incredible crime trilogy and just before he got anything published, died of a heart attack. He had no karma. According to family sources. Larsson had intended to write ten novels which he called the Millennium series but only managed to complete three. Now there is much talk of a fourth volume that he had completed which would have actually been the fifth in the series. He never got around to writing the fourth one. The opening novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was originally named “Men Who Hate Women” in Swedish. Larsson has been quoted More >
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol: Not every picture can be a Da Vinci!
I was stuck in the airport duty free with an hour to kill on my way to Paris and realised I desperately needed a summer book for my vacation. What could be more fitting than the latest novel by Da Vinci mater teller Dan Brown. To my surprise, right before me was a stack of paperback editions of The Lost Symbol. It was truly a sign. I had previously read all of Brown’s earlier novels so I was quite ready for a history rip apart. I mean this is Dan Brown, the book may not be as good as The More >
John le Carré – A Most Wanted Man. And I thought he was dead.
John le Carré is alive and punching. Now that the Cold War is long gone and all but forgotten, Le Carré points his pen at modern day terrorism and the methods modern democracy uses to deal with it. The book attacks stereotyping, complicated relationships and the backbones of democracy in the sophisticated manner so atypical of the creator of Smiley. The hero is a little man who has inherited a Hamburg situated British private bank from his father. Tommy Brue is approaching the age of retirement. He has an estranged pregnant daughter in America, an ex-wife, a wife who is More >
Books that changed my life: A Clockwork Orange
Most people, when referring to A Clockwork Orange, remember the Oscar award winning movie by Stanley Kubrick with all the sex and violence, entirely overlook Burgess’ great novel . Burgess himself was far from overwhelmed with the movie adaptation:
The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die.”
Many moviegoers, who have bothered to read the book, still live under the assumption that Burgess was a science fiction writer. Nothing can be farther from the truth. It is Burgess’ incredible gift for language that makes this More >
Great Reading: The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
Philip Roth is one of the most prolifically surprising American authors of the 20th and 21st centuries. After achieving international fame with Goodbye Columbus and Portnoy’s Complaint in the sixties, he turned to less popular fiction in the coming years and disappeared from the bestseller lists and the eye of the general public. The Plot against America, first published in 2004 was hailed by critics and readers alike and returned him to the public light. In the book, Roth takes a single historic event from American history and shows, very convincingly, how it could have changed the face of history More >
The Great Twitter Novel: A Stab in the Dark
Over the years literature has shrunk. From novels bordering on a thousand pages, so popular up till the middle of the twentieth century (Homer and Dicken’s works come to mind), to 70 illustrated pages with large print (Jonathan Livingstone Seagull). Now the age of the Twitter is here – obviously meant for twits of all ages. So here is my first Twitter novel. Every word a gem. Soon to be released in hardcover for the bargain price of $14.99.
A Stab In the DarkLate home, no lights, she looks in kitchen for candle. A noise! Taking a knife she nears the sound. BOO cries b.friend Enough is enough she sobs and stabs him More >
Books That Changed my Life: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
O.K. so you reckon, what the hell is this guy going on about. It was alright when he stuck to simple fiction, but now Zen. Geeze!! Throughout the years I’ve read a lot of books, and more or less forgotten most of them, but among them are a handful of great books that had a real influence on me and helped form my adult character. I don’t want to bother you with the obvious choices – the Bible, Hamlet, Lord of the Rings. You’ve all been there I’m sure.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ( from now on More >
Great reading: Ender’s game and shadow
I was brought up in London, which meant a regular Saturday excursion to the library. Every weekend my mother would place my baby sister in a pushchair piled up with books, and holding my younger brother’s left hand in her left one and an open book in her right and off we’d go. I had just hit my teens which in those days meant “enough of Enid Blyton it’s time for some adult stuff.” I started working myself through the science fiction shelves book my book and very soon I was heavily into Asimon, Heinlein and Bradbury. By the age More >
Great Reading: Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth
Sometimes you read a great book and can’t get enough of it. Ken Follett was hardly an unknown writer when he wrote The Pillars of the Earth. In fact it was because he was such a famous writer of suspense novels that made it so unlikely that he would ever think of attempting a project like this. Why would a bestselling author of books like The Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca suddenly indulge on a historical novel set in 12th century England with over a thousand pages.
Follett’s agent and publisher thought he More >
