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What is your most obscure book that you own?

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    Tough, Sweet and Stuffy: An Essay On Modern American Prose by Walter Gibons.

    Either that or:

    A Dictionary of Narratology by Gerald Prince.


    Both books I bought for myself, not because they were a class requirement either.
     
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    "what for dummies"

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    The great Galveston disaster, containing a full and thrilling account of the most appalling calamity of modern times including vivid descriptions of the hurricane, Book, ca. 1900 by Paul Lester.

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    My late grandmother left me her copy of this book about the 1900 storm. It's an original first printing (in 1900) packed with photographs of the appalling destruction of Galveston and the incredible loss of life, as well as stories told by survivors that will make your skin crawl. Barges full of hundreds of bodies prior to being towed out into the Gulf for "disposal." Huge areas looking like the remains of a city hit by an atomic weapon. Galveston has yet to recover, in my humble opinion. My grandmother was a 4 year old at the time of the storm, living with the family in the Heights when it was still a separate town, and what many don't realize is that Houston was hit pretty badly, as well. She recalled sitting on a bed in the woodframe house with several inches of water swirling around the floor, the wind howling, the place filled with neighbors who thought it was better built than their own, as the rising water lifted it off the concrete blocks of the foundation and floated it off their lot. Thankfully, that was the worst thing that happened to them, or I might not be here.
     
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    The Necronomicon
     
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    1 shade of gray
     
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    not that obscure. but i have always really liked carlos c. book covers.
     
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    Probably not the most obscure but..

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    I'm actually reading a book that isn't even completed as yet. It's on PDF with a 15 person circulation.
     
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    rachael ray's cookbook.
     
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    kaleidosky Your Tweety Bird dance just cost us a run

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    You and Jontro both didn't make it through Chapter 1, did you?
     
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    A first edition of:

    "Where's Waldo" in braille! ... :eek:
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    Why do you think I'm still on 1 shade?
     
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    Not obscure, but this is what I'm currently reading:

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