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Pththya-lyi posted:There are so many more! Longarm was a series of adult Western novels that chronicled the adventures of U.S. Deputy Marshal Curtis Long. The series ran from 1978 to 2015 and there were over 450 installments Welp it looks like I need to break into the increibly secure X rated western genre. Longarm is my new hero! Gutter Phoenix posted:
Oh man Adrift is one of my favorite books. An incredible story of survival. 76 days in a life raft that would have lasted most of us 3.
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Aesop Poprock posted:It's on amazon for like $5. I bought it "Returned. Creepy in a way that isn't represented by the store page. Others may like, but it just wasn't for my family and I."
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Flyball posted:Compost Girl could be fake, for all I know. That's a picture I found online, rather than a book I own.
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This is a very good website about weird and wonderful books.
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Flyball posted:This book is pretty weird I'm so jealous. Unless someone has scanned a copy recently, the old pdf that floats around is from Devo's CD-rom game from the 90s. So some of the more objectionable illustrations are censored.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:How and When "Heaven's Gate" (The Door to the Physical Kingdon Level Above Human) May Be Entered This is definitely the book I'm most jealous of! Heaven's Gate has always fascinated me, and I'm always surprised there haven't been more books/documentaries about it. Does the book just contain what is written on the website, or is there more to it? I've thought about contacting them and ordering it, but I imagine the cost of shipping it to the UK would be quite high.
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Crossposting this from the funny pics thread:Amazon posted:Singing hymns of praise is standard practice—now it's time to set your feet a-tapping with a collection of original dance moves inspired by Jesus and the likes of Moses and John the Baptist. Dances include: the Water Walk, the Temptation Tango, the Judas Hustle, and The Apostolic Conga. Each dance move is outlined with: how to, inspiration, and an illustration. Slyly irreverent but ultimately festive, Dancing with Jesus is illustrated in full color. Best of all, two of the dances are animated for full effect by a lenticular cover and last-spread finale, making this a truly one-of-a-kind novelty item!
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wa27 posted:I'm so jealous. I don't know if the pdf I have is that one or not. It sure as hell has some illustrations which I wouldn't include with something marketed to the general public. This, for instance: NSFW /i.imgur.com/leSlQlj.png NSFW I've seen more than one pdf over the years, but I'm not sure if I have any of the others, or not. It's the old 'maybe on an old hard drive'. Maybe I'll compare it to the book, but not all 280 pages at once. In what way were they censored, just blanked out?
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Crossposting this from the funny pics thread: We need all the images and a .gif of those
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Flyball posted:I don't know if the pdf I have is that one or not. It sure as hell has some illustrations which I wouldn't include with something marketed to the general public. Yeah there were just very obvious black boxes over random stuff. But then there was plenty of uncensored graphic imagery that was untouched, so I don't know exactly what the point was. Maybe to cover up some of the underage stuff. Last time I browsed it was like 2004 though, so I did some digging and there does seem to be better scanned copies now: https://www.reddit.com/r/devo/comments/207d19/ive_uploaded_my_struggle_by_booji_boy_onto_dropbox/ In that copy, it looks like someone went through the CD-Rom version and de-censored it with images from an original copy. For example, page 13 ("minus 6") had the girl and dog's body blacked out.
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wa27 posted:In that copy, it looks like someone went through the CD-Rom version and de-censored it with images from an original copy. At a quick glance, that looks like the same pdf I have.
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canis minor posted:We need all the images and a .gif of those Well, you're (sort of) in luck. Here's the lenticular cover: Snowglobe of Doom posted:Then they went to all the trouble of creating a a 4 cell lenticular cover for the loving book:
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Flyball posted:This one is quite wonderful Stashing this idea in the back of my brain, thanks!
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I've been cleaning out the Friends of the Library booksale area. Why didn't someone tell me about this thread earlier.
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Rough Lobster posted:Welp it looks like I need to break into the increibly secure X rated western genre. Longarm is my new hero! Yeah, and unlike most of the other shipwreck/ stuck-on-a-life-raft books I posted, he was by himself. That's got to be even worse than being stuck on a life raft with other people. Also, if I remember correctly, when he was finally found by some poor Caribbean fishermen out at sea, he didn't want to take away their livelihood by causing them to lose a day of fishing, so they went off to do that and he just had to have faith that they would come back for him when they were done (they did).
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No More Toast posted:This is definitely the book I'm most jealous of! Heaven's Gate has always fascinated me, and I'm always surprised there haven't been more books/documentaries about it. Does the book just contain what is written on the website, or is there more to it? I've thought about contacting them and ordering it, but I imagine the cost of shipping it to the UK would be quite high. As far as I can tell, most of what's in the book is on their website, although I haven't compared the two extensively or anything. I got it by emailing the contact on that site. The response was quick. I was asked to send (I think) $20 cash to a PO Box in Arizona, and just had to have faith that any believer in the teachings of Ti and Do would refrain from stealing my money. A couple of weeks later my book arrived. I have no clue what it would cost to send to the UK, but if you really want a copy it couldn't hurt to ask! I have a couple of other Heaven's Gate books (including one that's similar in looks and format to the book I posted), but they are currently in a different state, so it'll be a few weeks before I can post pictures.
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First up, this Chick tract that I found in my letterbox one day. It's the only one I've ever seen outside of the internet, so I kept it. Next, since cat books were mentioned:  I bought a couple of books from a seller on eBay and they threw this one in as a freebie. It's pretty much what you'd expect from looking at the cover.   But my favourite is this one I found on my grandmother's bookshelf when we were going through her stuff after she died.  It goes on to explain the changes pretty comprehensively, including a lot of real-world examples for a variety of different uses including shopping, cooking, utilities, construction, cars, farming, mail, weather, and sports. I'd probably keep it anyway just for the novelty, but the bits on the first page about America are the real reason I like it.   In case you can't read it (sorry about the quality of the photos), the relevant quotes are: quote:The change to the metric system is part of a world-wide trend. This country cannot afford to be left behind. All the traditional users of the imperial system including the United Kingdom, New Zealand and South Africa are well advanced with the change. The United States is expected to start the change soon. And further down the page: quote:The United States of America is the only country of industrial significance which is not yet committed and there, following an official report recommending the change, Bills have been introduced in Congress providing for immediate preparation for a ten year program. The Bill has already been passed in the Senate. This was 1972. Any day now, right?
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Someone used to bring stacks of Chick tracts into one of my old worksites (which is hilarious because it's a government building and I'm pretty sure they would have been fired if they had been found out). They'd leave them in the bathrooms on top of the toilet paper dispenser ostensibly so you'd have something to read while you poo poo but we all just wiped out asses with them.
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Speaking of Chick tracts, here are pictures of the first four (compared to more recent versions) which were originally published as books/ booklets: Why No Revival? (1961)   A Demon's Nightmare (1962)  This Was Your Life (1964)  Holy Joe (1964)  Here are a bunch of books from Chick Publications: The Last Call (1963)    The Battle (1972).  The Next Step for Growing Christians (1973)   A Solution to... The Marriage Mess (1978)  Going Bananas? (1979)  Smokescreens (1982 audio tape/ 1983 book)    He Came to Set the Captives Free by Rebecca Brown (1986)   Prepare for War by Rebecca Brown (1987)   Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible? by David Daniels (2005)   Babylon Religion by David Daniels (2006)  Hot Topics (2008)  I've posted at length about all 295 Chick tracts (as well as other miscellaneous Chick publications) here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3795280&userid=203154&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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i've posted some of these books i've got or seen here and there but this seems like a good thread to house them i got this book during high school as a birthday gift. i did get some good grades but my reputation was in shambles     found these at a sale         i bought this book. it's actually not bad but i use this image when people say stupid things about books they have read and failed to understand   this thread in fact reminded me that i have a copy of the novelization of Planescape: Torment, the video game notable for its great story and still hailed as one of the most well-written game of all times. the novelization is, let's just say, absolutely not that. I have yet to finish this book  i think we all know this book. it is bad and dumb. before he was elected i found it at a cafe library and was just taking screenshots     also i downloaded this stupid book and it's as bad as you think it is       the author is also responsible for 
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Yo, did that lady throw away a loving baby?
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The Man Diet proposes an exciting alternative for women bored of the superficial modern dating scene: cannibalism.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I love sleazy paperbacks: I've seen so many of these sorts of books but I've never read them what are they actually like?
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The Saddest Rhino posted:i've posted some of these books i've got or seen here and there but this seems like a good thread to house them Ha Ha Ha! I actually have a few issues of Campus Life magazine. Back in 2004 I somehow ended up with a huge stack of mail-in postcards to request information packets from various fundamentalist Christian colleges all over the U.S. I figured that the brochures would have a bunch of funny pictures and stuff that I could use as clip-art in a zine I used to publish, so one night I got drunk and filled out about 60 post cards and dropped them in the mail the next day. My mailbox was jammed with Christian college application information (addressed to my pen name) for months. As could be expected, my pseudonym also ended up on a bunch of crazy mailing lists. At some point I got an offer for a free trial issue of Campus Life, which I promptly accepted. After receiving a couple of issues they started sending me angry letters demanding that I pay for a subscription since they kept sending me magazines. Eventually the magazines stopped coming, although the angry letters continued until I moved. Hopefully the person living at my old place on Belmont Street in Portland is still getting angry letters from Campus Life magazine thirteen years later. That would be neat. There wasn't anything too noteworthy in the college application packets, but I've held on to a few of the magazines all these years because I remember them being funny. I'll have to read through them again when I get a chance.   
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Uncle Wemus posted:I've seen so many of these sorts of books but I've never read them what are they actually like? Here is a random page from Sex Agent:  That's probably pretty representative of the smutty 60's paperback genre. cda posted:This post owns. Requesting a juicy quote from Marji and the Gangland Wars, please. Better late than never:   
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Here are a few new books I've picked up:     And a few I got for Christmas:     The Bigfoot one might be my favorite of the bunch. It's never too early to teach kids about cryptozoology!
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The Saddest Rhino posted:also i downloaded this stupid book and it's as bad as you think it is SOMEbody is clearly overcompenasting for his tiny red button.
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Are there audio books available for these trashy old books they'd be great for my graveyard shifts.
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ultrafilter posted:This must be amazing. Have you read it? I just got it and haven't had a chance to read it yet. I had never even heard of it until it showed up as a suggestion on Amazon. Uncle Wemus posted:Are there audio books available for these trashy old books they'd be great for my graveyard shifts. I know that Lawrence Block has been republishing a bunch of his sleazy novels (written under various pseudonyms) from the 50's and 60's, and there are some available as audio books. You can listen to this classic while at work: 
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My girlfriend saw this on the free book table at her office and brought it home for me last night. It's in French (which I cannot read), although that doesn't really matter because it's mostly filled with pictures, posters, and other miscellaneous Mexican wrestling ephemera in Spanish (which I can barely read). It's pretty awesome. ˇViva la lucha libre! Here are a bunch more books. This one isn't as notable as the DEVO book that Flyball posted, but it's still pretty good:  The cover on this one is flocked in fuzzy fake velvet:       This is a booklet from the 50's advising American tourists on how to act while vacationing in Mexico:  It even has a special message from Ike:  Here are a few of the little booklets that used to be available in grocery store checkout lines:    
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There was a vintage furniture store in Alameda that went out of business a couple of years ago. They also had a room full of used books which they were giving away for free on their last day in business. The selection was pretty picked over by the time I got there, but I still managed to pick up a few decent things. Most notably, there were stacks of these trashy "urban romance" books that no one else seemed to be interested in. I grabbed as many as I could carry and barely made a dent in the pile.                    I like that they used the "B" from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show logo for the title font on this one:  Sometimes I regret not going back and taking the rest of them, although I have yet to actually read any of them. Also, we have nine full size bookshelves in our apartment (plus a few smaller shelves) and all of them are already packed two rows deep, yet that's still not enough to house all of our books. I just hope that the rest of the collection went to a good home.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:There was a vintage furniture store in Alameda that went out of business a couple of years ago. They also had a room full of used books which they were giving away for free on their last day in business. The selection was pretty picked over by the time I got there, but I still managed to pick up a few decent things. Most notably, there were stacks of these trashy "urban romance" books that no one else seemed to be interested in. I grabbed as many as I could carry and barely made a dent in the pile. https://www.amazon.com/Crack-Triple-Crown-Publications-Presents/dp/0979951798 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0984...B57L&ref=plSrch
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  I found this in a bookshop in Spain a few years ago. I wish I would have bought it, but they wanted way too much for it.  I guess even Spain was into dumb cowboy poo poo in the sixties?
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