A life-time of self-help books for people like me
Now, me, I believe everything I read, so that makes me a more selective person than those who read but don’t believe anything.
(David, in This is Spinal Tap)
These are the pillars, past, present and future, of my existence, the foundations of my beliefs and experience, the nets that caught me as I was falling overboard… well, almost.
Let me know if there’s anything you can recommend.
1. Fun Four-Letter Words to Know and Share (kids’ press)
2. The Pop-Up Book of Human Anatomy
3. Strangers Have the Best Candy
4. The A bomb and your school desk (anon.)
5. The Secondary school student’s Guide to sulking, scowling and rude graffiti
6. The perfect Goth Manual (with makeup kit)
7. Journey to Amsterdam
8. Who to call when you get busted for marijuana
9. Meditation in very small places (free from a man in orange on Oxford street)
10. How to not let everyone know you’re having a panic attack, by Dr Nubb
11. Women love it if you’re funny (advertisement)
12. How to seduce women by being withdrawn, mysterious, poetic and moody
13. Using hypnosis to eliminate the word ‘like’ from your vocabulary
14. Relationships for dummies
15. Relationships for idiots
16. Relationships for sub humans
17. Britain’s favourite love poems, collection.
18. Romeo and Juliet, William.
19. Romeo and Juliet (Cliff notes)
20. Lesbian Wedding Magazine Spring Special (with set of matching garters)
21. Looks like if some women are from Venus, some are actually from Mars.(gift)
22. Fingers intertwined: a path to mutual understanding in times of war
23. Love in the time of cholera (I’d misunderstood the title)
24. How to survive the loss of a love
25. You’ve been dumped, now what?
26. Mourning is your best friend
27. Get over it yesterday!
28. 12 step programmes to everything
29. Diagnostic Manual of Mental disorders, British Psychiatric Association
30. La Redoute Lingerie, Autumn-Winter collection, 2004
31. Leaving your house again, one step at a time
32. You too can lead a Rich and Varied Life
33. Failed dates and your hair.
34. Mnemonic Devices for Remembering Waitresses’ names
I’m also thinking of purchasing the following opus: (opei?) for later (but fairly imminent) use:
35. It’s time to leave childish humour behind
36. Life begins at 25; where were you at the time?
37. How methadone can cure your chap-stick addiction
38. Glasses, contacts or surgey?
39. You don’t need two knees anyway
40. Ringing in the ears (pamphlet)
41. Arthritis!
42. Arrhythmia can be fun
43. Tics you can look forward to
44. The user’s guide to prescription drugs
45. Final exit (Hemlock Society)
Michel Simon dans un musée du sexe ?
4 years ago
3 comments:
Damn I've been trying to remember all those old corny book title jokes from my yoof but I can't, what that vitamin thats good for the Brain? Is it A or C or is it D what about Cod Liver Oil is that it/
I can't remember huuuummmmm!
Gotta chuckle in how you have Journey to Amsterdam, and then immediatly below it, Who to Call When You Get Busted For Marijuana. ..Great
Dr Rob - I think it's vitamin D, but when in doubt have one of each.
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