In the wake of Amazon’s removal of Phillip R. Greaves’ book, The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover’s Code of Conduct, we offer some other titles they might consider pulling (Note: this is not to defend the above book):
1.The Bomb-Throwing Anarchist’s Guide to Evading Federal Income Tax
2.The Foie-Gras Lover’s Guide to Force/Feeding Your Obnoxious Uncle
4.Triangles for Dummies!: A Tea Party Guidebook to Wearing Three-Cornered Hats
5.The Teen Angst Handbook of Grey-Laden High School Days
9.Damn that’s Cute: How to Grow Your Hair like Justin Bieber with All-Natural Vitamin Supplements
10.Cheeze Whiz: The Foodstuff that Revolutionized the Western World and Invented the Internet
I’m trying to imagine a more shameless, and more brilliant plug and/or self-promotion, and quite frankly the next contestants are so far back in the rear-view-mirror it isn’t even funny.
bravo.
…and after clicking the links, I have to just echo that.
Hilarious, excellent use of links for a piece. And look Palin and Plath, together at last.
Reading before the sun comes up, without enough coffee, I misread #4 as
4. Triage for dummies!
Makes a certain kind of sense, though, don’t you think?
Yes, “Triage” indeed. Thanks all.
Ah, I was wondering when someone was going to bring up the banning of the pedophile book in some way. I love that the humor of this piece involves following the links — the delay makes for great comedic timing. I think I actually heard a badumbum and cymbal crash as #9 loaded. And I’m working on Joe’s sluggish computer at the moment, so it’s skewing more Stephen Wright for me. Which is awesome.
Interactive brilliance of this piece aside, the juxtaposition in No. 7 is so funny in itself. Now it’s on my tbr list.
Numbers 3 and 4 made me spit coffee at my screen.
Hilarious.
And yes, the book that was pulled was gross. I’m glad it’s gone – and I’m about as anti-censorship as it’s possible to be. About. Not totally, I suppose.
I didn’t click the links until I read the comments, and then I got double the pleasure. The cadence of the Justin Berber book title, Davis, reminds me of “Davis Schneiderman Took the Quiz.”