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I have a lot of books that I consider odd but the strangest one is probably "How to disappear completely and never be found" by Doug Richmond.
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The Bible
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A Guide to Good English by Krapp 1927
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Gourmet microwave cooking.
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The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary
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The Wolf in Chef's Clothing. A picture cookbook for men, from the 1950s.
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Oddest as in the book which tells the strangest, most far fetched, story(s), that would be my wifes copy of the Bible. Oddest as in strangest looking, would be my special biography of the Rolling Stones (copy 1 or 1000 signed). Oddest as in strangest pictures would be my sons picture bible.
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I don't think it is odd but people do when they see I have a book of Fairy Tales. They do not realize it is the original fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Not meant for children.
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The most odd is a tough one. One of the more recent is "The Big Neccessity - the unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters" by Rose George. Very good read about the often ignored problem of wastes and how it effect clean drinking water throughout the world.
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The Devil's Dictionary =P It's not a Satanist text, it's a joke dictionary from around the 1800's. Also I own a book of Slavic fairy-tales which are pretty odd.
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a bible, its about 150 years old ... its in latin and was one of the first books i'd read all the way through
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2000 Insults! Someone gave it to me who thought I needed to speak up to belligerent people. That was when I was a teenager. My 21-year-old found it the other day and couldn't put it down. It was full of some zingers!
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A really old codex manesse book... The illustrations are really cool but really odd. I just got it recently.
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This really funny book commonly called a "Bible"
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Wilderness USA
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A strange little book about unicorns. It purports to be a copy of an ancient manuscript, and contains a poem-prophecy about a lost unicorn horn which has apparently been buried somewhere in the world. By the time you finish the book, you really are not sure if they're real or not.
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'B.S. I Love You' by Milton Berle or 'Connecticut: Off The Beaten Path'.
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