Saturday, September 22, 2007

Outer Dark

Description: "Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution."
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The Photographer's Sweethearts

Heavy, heavy, stuff.
"Setting herself a difficult task, British Columbia's Hartog debuts magnificently with a tale - said to be based on real events - of a pedophile and his not-quite-transcendent love of nature and children: a first novel at once so riveting and disquieting that it may well prove unforgettable. In the early 1900s, young Louie Olsen has come from Denmark to California to see the towering sequoias for himself and to live close to nature while observing its wonders through the eye of his camera. Foremost among those wonders is the naked beauty of children, and Louie's own childlike ways give him no lack of young acquaintances. Poetic in evoking California's landscapes and seasons, this is also painfully meticulous in detailing the black deeds of a complex man descending through a darkness still quite human to a place where demons dwell" (Kirkus Reviews).
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Sex Machines

Description: "After contacting an active but intensely private Internet community of sex machine inventors, photographer Timothy Archibald eventually won their trust and was invited into workshops and homes. The resulting book is a powerful document that is by turns thought provoking, humorous, and always fascinating. Sex Machines celebrates the American spirit of invention while exploring the desires and confusions that exist between men and women in our changing culture. Many of the inventors seen within these pages are otherwise ordinary family men who were inspired to help repair strained relationships or simply enhance their wives' sexual pleasure... Like the work of Bill Owens, Studs Terkel, and Diane Arbus, Archibald's photographs and interviews find unexpected beauty and mystery among the lives of regular people-this time, as they engender a new form of 'marriage enhancement' and sexual liberation in the suburbs and small towns across America."
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Position of the Day Playbook

Description: "Each sexual position comes with an estimated caloric expenditure (for each person involved), a list of possible side effects (leg cramp, lawsuit), and equipment recommendations (hanging bar, stethoscope, cowboy hat)."
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What's Your Poo Telling You?

Description: "This witty, illustrated description of over two dozen dookies (each with a medical explanation written by a doctor) details what one can learn about health and well-being by studying what's in the bowl. All the greatest hits are here: The Log Jam, The Glass Shard, The Deja Poo, The Hanging Chad... the list goes on. Sidebars, trivia, over 60 euphemisms for number 2, and unusual case histories."
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What Shat That? A Pocket Guide to Poop Identity

Description: "Ever paused to ponder poo? This unique book will resolve all scat squabbles and doo-doo debates. Ideal for nature lovers and backyard biologists, What Shat That? is an original and authoritative survey of the substance that unites all creatures big and small. All major international species are covered, along with more wild and exotic species, while full-color photos capture each turd in all of its glory."
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Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, The Immoral Mentors

"Further develops [de Sade's] arguments on morality, and...a good deal of these arguments are actually pretty compatible with Camus. If you can get past (or enjoy?) all the anal sex bits, this is actually some pretty smart philosophy with what appears to be de Sade's characters debating either side of his own arguments" (from Amazon.com review).
Description: This most joyous of de Sade’s works follows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate EugĂ©nie de Mistival in "the principles of the most outrageous libertinism."
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Naked Girls Smoking Weed

"As if the nudity weren't enough, this book's also packed with all kinds of educational tidbits about pot" (TLA Video).
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Le Banquet

"A book by Berquet is always a banquet for the eyes. In this collection, he offers us more than 50 new erotic images that keep alive the transgressive humor of the Surrealists. Sexually imaginative, wildly explicit, nasty, twisted, kinky, and even perverse... all with first-rate artistic excellence and a brilliantly passionate vision" (Last Gasp).
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Femmes Machines

High weirdness!
Description: Women hooked to biz contraptions, connected by tubes, penetrated by manufactured devices under the amused eye of suave movie stars in the black-and-white, highly delineated world of this book. Another approach to cyborg sex.
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities

Description: In the course of their writing and publishing careers, Russell Ash and Brian Lake have collected hundreds of the book trade's most bizarre titles. From unintended double entendres (Making It in Leather) and astonishingly specialized subjects (Great Locomotive Boiler Explosions) to weird books on sex (Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition), and religion (Hell: Where Is It?), the authors have left no page unturned in their quest. Along the way, they have also catalogued some noteworthy authors, including Violet Organ, Fernando Poo, Bishop Frediricus Nausea, and O. Hell.
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Codex Seraphinianus

A page from the Codex Seraphinianus, by Luigi Seraphini. Copies of this book usually fetch around $550.00.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary

"The Curious Sofa tells of the delightfully open-minded Alice who, approached one day in the park while she's eating grapes, takes a taxi ride with a young gentleman during which she does something that she's never done before. The story then proceeds to a country house, during which various upper-class folk introduce Alice to a dizzying variety of fun, variously involving a French maid, a Countess, a married couple who each have a wooden leg, numerous 'exceptionally well-formed' gentlemen and an enthusiastic Old English sheepdog. You don't actually see anything, thanks to Mr. Gorey's discreet placing of trees, bushes, clothed persons and screens between us and the action, so fans of genuine porn can expect to be disappointed. But this is still a highly titillating book" (Amazon.com review).
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Satan Burger

Absurd philosophies, dark surrealism.
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How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?

Description: I think constricting anus 100 times and denting navel 100 times in succession everyday is effective to good-bye depression and take back youth. You can do so at a boring meeting or in a subway. I have known 70-year-old man who has practiced it for 20 years. As a result, he has good complexion and has grown 20 years younger. His eyes sparkle. He is full of vigor, happiness and joy. He has neither complained nor born a grudge under any circumstance. Furthermore, he can make love three times in succession without drawing out.
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