I Just Read About That…

SOUNDTRACK: NIRVANA-Sliver: The Best of the Box (2005).

After reviewing the box set With the Lights Out, I saw that the greedheads at Geffen released Sliver, The Best of the Box, which included stuff that was, inexplicably, NOT in the box. I think 4 tracks not available elsewhere are included. So, I’ve just discovered that I can order a used copy for $1 from Amazon.com. So, no money to Geffen, and I’ll be able to review the tracks when it comes in.

[READ: November 12, 2007] Bizarre Books.

This is a great companion book to Scouts in Bondage. Like that book (see below) it compiles a list of books with bizarre titles, bizarre covers, bizarre author, and bizarre concepts. It is presented in list form, which can be daunting if you try to read start to finish, but if you dip in from time to time it is quite a treat.

Unlike Scouts in Bondage, this books doesn’t really present covers (there are some covers, but not full color); it presents a list of books, alphabetical by author, in different categories. It chronicles a much greater repertoire of categories as well; not limited to the double entendre, it includes authors (right or wrong), health & medicine, food & drink, Against All Odds (as in, how did these get published?) and over a dozen more.

Marvel that a book called The Second Hand Parrot: A Complete Pet Owner’s Manual was published! Or that in 1965 someone published: Survey of toilet facilities in chain stores, cooperative retail stores and department stores.

What’s also nice about this book is that it occasionally gives excerpts from the books so that you can see just what it’s about! Even you are puzzled by the title Cock Tugs, you will be delighted to read that it is “A short history of the Liverpool Screw Towing Company.”

The hard thing about choosing between this and Scouts is, do you want great color pictures, or hundreds more titles?