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Tuesday December 29th, 2009

How You Can Bowl Better Using Self-Hypnosis and Other (Very) Weird Books

soldier-bearAbeBooks has put together a “Weird Book Room” on its site, and the result is some head-spinning fun. For instance: 50 Ways to Use Feminine Hygiene Products in a Manly Manner, with a photo on the cover of a man bird hunting, about to shoot. Oooookay.

The most fertile category for out-and-out craziness is the crafts and games books, which includes: The Lost Art of Towel Origami (lost for a reason, one assumes), the Gangsta Rap Coloring Book, and the honeymoon favorite Erotic Dots: Join the Dots to Create 60 Sexy and Exciting Pictures.

A best cover is almost impossible to choose (the one for Why do I Vomit? is pretty great), but I might go with the image for Soldier Bear, the “true story of the Syrian brown bear who was the mascot of the 22nd Transport Company of the Polish Army, during the Second World War.”

Visit the Weird Book Room now, and frequently. (I’ve seen this in several places now, and I don’t remember who to credit for the initial find. So, thanks to the bookish Internet in general.)