7 Weird Books From UndergroundBooks.net
You may have guessed that some strange books cross our desk from time to time here at Underground. Read further to see just how weird it gets, and let us take you on a wondrously educational ride through our strangest offerings that will leave your skies clear and your colon clean.
- Mo-Ped: The Wonder Vehicle by Jerry Murray
- Alternate title, MO-PED: The Biker Gangs of the Future
Is there any more miraculous vehicle than that of the “mo-ped”? This book doesn’t waste time answering stupid questions. If you want to know how the Peugot, “deservedly the snob of the mo-ped world,” stacks up against the Batavus, whose “racy look…will appeal to the sportsman in you,” then this is the Moped Bible you've been waiting for. If you want tasteful black and white photographs of models both sleek and curvy, then this is the Sports Illustrated Moped Edition you've been looking for. Either way, you’re sure to feel as badass with this book in your hand as you do cruising through town on your wonder vehicle.
- Read responsibly.
Not only will your lawyer bros William and Reese tell you how to wriggle free of that DUI charge, they include the very helpful Appendix K, a set of “Drivers Rights” cards, conveniently sized for your wallet and drunk driving kit. Never be unprepared again. As our catalog says, “a useful book if you are one of the many fools who drink and drive on a regular basis.”
- Keeping Fit by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Education
- Uncle Sam Wants You! (Not like that.)
Soldiers, your government cares about you, as evidenced by this 1918 pamphlet from the “Bureau of Social Hygiene,” which helpfully explains the “four great handicaps” preventing soldiers from “keeping fit.” “Defective eyesight, poor teeth, bad feet, and venereal diseases,” there are the enemies on the battlefield of your health. Within the first two pages, you will learn how to combat eye, teeth, and foot problems. The rest of the pamphlet, 11 pages, will scare you out of contracting V.D.
- One rose, a million reasons to sleep with the light on.
We hear you can get a degree from Hogwarts with a name like Rowena Godding Ruggles (we’re just jealous). Ruggles delves deep into the world of Rose O’Neill, the American illustrator, artist, and writer from whose mind the world received the Kewpies, popular comic characters and the disturbing bisque dolls your grandma likes. This nicely bound book comes heavily illustrated throughout for more nightmare fuel.
- I bring the darkness!
- Just let this informative text run right through you.
John Harvey Kellogg, co-creator of the popular corn flakes cereal and superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitorium, was a man of many passions, including abstinence, masturbation prevention, eugenics, and the health of the “most despised and neglected portion of the body, the colon.” Kellog’s refusal to include sugar, or the white devil as it’s called in some circles, in the secret recipe for corn flakes led to his split from co-creator and brother Will Keith Kellogg. John Harvey certainly had projects that required a healthy breakfast. Examine the colon through the eyes of the (non)master(bator).
- Thanks for the climate change, Frank.
This pamphlet certainly takes that verse about doing all things through Christ to the next level. 1950’s and 60’s healing evangelist and preacher Franklin Hall’s various fixations included miracles and weather control. With chapter subtitles like “Interplanetary Tourist Information,” “Controlling the Sky Is Not Too Difficult,” and “Holy Ghost Beauty Treatment,” Hall will have you looking fabulous under a tin foil hat and a cloud-free sky.
- Bisba by Timothy Burr
- The fuchsia top stain and the gilt lettering really make this an attractive book.
We have to let this one speak for itself, or risk using NSFW language. From back flap: “No matter how little or much breasts have meant to you before, you've now reached a turning point. Once you have read even a few chapters of BISBA, you can never again have only a detached interest in the myriad variety of breasts you daily encounter. From here on, every one of them will be seen as an open window that lets you peek into the mysteries of its possessor.” Just in case you needed more convincing, here’s the full cover title: “Why and how--WOMEN'S BREASTS REVEAL THEIR CHARACTER BISBA BARING THE BREAST'S INTRIGUING MYSTERIES from its INFLUENCE (on man, mind and history) to its INSPECTION ANALYSIS IDENTIFICATION RATING AND INTERPRETATION PLUS-- A uniquely valuable dictionary-commentary on a thousand ways to describe women.” Instructively illustrated throughout with exactly what you’d expect.
We hope you enjoyed the ride! If you're a local patron and would like to see any of these fine selections in person, please contact us at (678)977-5517 to make an appointment (we keep our online inventory at another location). For more of the weirdest books of West Georgia, check out our Weird category back at UndergroundBooks.net.