Do not hesitate. Go to this link.
Then gaze at the book titles, and marvel.
(I don’t actually think I need to read any of them. It just makes me happy knowing they exist.)
You know, I bet I could identify the publication decade of… a lot of these books, just from their cover designs. Maybe not all, but most. (My parents are both bibliophiles; I’m a spreadsheet-o-phile. Guess who got to do the cataloguing? *g*)
Am I the only one who thinks that, say, “Building a Fire Truck” (looks like a children’s book) and “An Intellectual History of Cannibalism” (doesn’t) aren’t that odd? I want to read those.
“How to Teach Physics to Your Dog” is not literal; it’s a physics-for-dummies-type thing with a framing of him conversing with his dog (who can talk because it’s only a framing device). I read the author’s blog on occasion, so I’ve heard of it before.
I was going to say “How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found” was a novel and also not literal, but after looking it up it seems to be a different book by the same name that is literal. Now I kind of want to read that too. (Not to actually do it, just to see what he’s got to say.)
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