A bum per list of books...

[Aperitif]

'View From Behind: A Cultural History of the Anus' is short ars...sorry, listed for the oddest book title.
The full article can be perused here.
My library is stuffed with useless volumes, such as 'Bicycle Repair' or 'Get Rich Quick', but I possess no odd book titles.
Do you own an odd book title, or have something that offered something unexpected compared to the cover? Post a picture here - if it's not too 'cheeky' that is...
Here's a book that took me by surprise:

 

[Bollo]

Here's Reading from the front!

 

[Bollo]

Although it's not that obscure, I always liked the title of John Lahr's biography of Joe Orton - "Prick Up Your Ears".

 

[Crackle]

Slightly less erudite but in keeping with the title

 

[Crackle]

And a well travelled and therefore Erudite cat

Actually Pugwash didn't feature much and at one point got left with an old hippy friend whilst our author buggered off to the coast to be woken from his slumbers on the quay by two coppers wanting a cup of tea.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

'View From Behind: A Cultural History of the Anus' is short ars...sorry, listed for the oddest book title.
The full article can be perused here.
My library is stuffed with useless volumes, such as 'Bicycle Repair' or 'Get Rich Quick', but I possess no odd book titles.
Do you own an odd book title, or have something that offered something unexpected compared to the cover? Post a picture here - if it's not too 'cheeky' that is...
Here's a book that took me by surprise:
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And yet, curiously, there's no colon in the cover title.

 

[vernon]

This trumps 'Up shoot Creek'.

It's a crappy read.

 

[Aperitif]

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This trumps 'Up shoot Creek'.

It's a crappy read.

The story of pooh bare?

 

[User169]

Catchy title.

I think it's out of print now, but my copy is still in pretty good nick. It got a bit of attention in 2011 when a copy was listed for sale on Amazon at 23.7 million USD (+3.99 USD for shipping).

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/25/amazon.price.algorithm/

 

[vernon]

The story of pooh bare?

I'd be worried about encountering bear poo in the woods.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Catchy title.

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I think it's out of print now, but my copy is still in pretty good nick. It got a bit of attention in 2011 when a copy was listed for sale on Amazon at 23.7 million USD (+3.99 USD for shipping).

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/25/amazon.price.algorithm/

Yeah, I hate it when they bump up the postage charge to make the item cost look cheaper.

 

[srw]

I'm torn between the rather interesting sounding Reading the Liver: Papyrological Texts on Ancient Greek Extispicy by William Furley and Victor Gysembergh (Mohr Siebeck) (I thought it was the Romans who started that idea) and Transvestite Vampire Biker Nuns from Outer Space: A Consideration of Cult Film by Mark Kirwan-Hayhoe (MKH Imprint) (but it's spoiled by the colon and subsequent text).

 

[TheDoctor]

I once read a travel book called No Shitting In The Toilet.
I'd linky if the tablet would let me. It was fjoerken excellent!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

From my shelves...

Eugen Egner's Androids From Milk is just as weird as it sounds;

I have several of David Shrigley's very dark and amusing little art books - Ants Have Sex In Your Beer, is my favourite of his titles.

There's Robert Irwin's Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh, a satirical riff on Orientalist harem fantasies that most definitely has its cake and eats it.

I used to have all of the Marquis de Sade's stuff, including The 120 Days of Sodom but decided I wasn't ever going to put myself through reading them again. Once was definitely enough.