- Krishnamurti Reader vol I - Krishnamurti was my favorite reluctant messiah until I found out that Raj Patel is/isn't the maitreya.
- A Continuing Education - A book about what books to read by Samuel Pickering, an English professor who was one of the inspirations for Robin Williams' roll in Dead Poets Society.
- The Art of Faking It: Sounding Smart Without Really Knowing Anything - Perfect title for exploiting the intellectual insecurity of the middlebrow set. Clearly I am a sucker for having this on my list.
- Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 98) - contains an article on Milorad Pavic, author of one of my favorite novels, The Dictionary of the Khazars.
- Defence Diaries of W. Morgan Petty - A collection of crank letters written under a pseudonym.
- Yotsuba&! vol III - I own volume I and have read volume II. Though I have read other manga, volume I is the only one I have ever spent cash money on.
- Alphabet of Manliness - By the author of the Best Page in the Universe.
- Schotts' Food & Drink Miscellany - I have Schott's original volume of miscellany. Despite living in this wild internet age of instant information I am still amused by small oddball reference works such as Mr. Schott produces. But then I maintain a luddite-like attachment to the codex as the 'proper' medium for a book.
- 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know - Another weird reference book, but with a more conspiratorial bent. Put out by the folks behind disinfo.com if I recall correctly.
- How to Be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!! - I'm not sure if there's anything in this one that I don't already know, but I love the title.
- Don't Try This at Home: How to Win a Sumo Match, Catch a Great White Shark, Start an Independent Nation and Other Extraordinary Feats - Remember when the Worst-Case Survival Handbook spawned a brief fad of books like it?
- The Action Hero's Handbook: How to Catch a Great White Shark, Perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, Track a Fugitive, and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skills - I sure do!
- The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook - Though I never got the original.
Shipping & handling on most of these tomes is listed as $3.99, so at the moment I could get any one of them for only four dollars American. Anybody care to share an opinion as to which one I should order later today?
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