The island of misfit books

[SFG75]

What books have you read that are really out there? Books you wouldn't normally read, but for some reason, you do?

I just finished The Quickening by UFO radio host and all things weird Art Bell. Bell's book is a mish-mash of Toffler "Third wave" musings about technology speeding up our lives(i.e.-that's the quickening) and one world government, chips in our foreheads, conspiratorial writing. Nothing is really original if you've been exposed to some of that stuff before. I always heard about his fans talk about this book, I wasn't very impressed.

Another misfit book that I've been reading is Robert S. Mendelsohn's Confessions of a Medical Heretic. This book is a warning NOT to go to the hospital. The simple stethoscope?, a common germ carrier that can kill you. A lot of the information is very interesting regarding common medical procedures that in his opinion, are pointless-but which go on because they are cash cows for university hospitals and doctors who receive grants and GA's to bolster their program.

 

[Stewart]

What books have you read that are really out there?

Well, based on the following novel's blurb there was no way I was not reading it because it all sounded so bizarre...and was.

Lobster, Guillaume Lecasble

Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina eat his father, but is then saved from the cooking pot himself when the ship strikes the iceberg and the pot falls to the floor. But he is now a changed Lobster: attracted sexually to the very human who ate his father. He and Angelina have one life-changing erotic encounter before their tragic separation, following an ugly incident in one of the lifeboats.....

 

[SFG75]

now he's a changed lobster.......

I think you win this one hands down Stewart.

 

[BooknaMug]

No way - Stewart, you made that up!

 

[angerball]

Lobster, Guillaume Lecasble

Was this also nominated somewhere for worst erotic novel, or worst sex-scene in a novel? It sounds vaguely familiar, but I can't think from where. I'm sure it was an interesting read.

 

[Stewart]

No way - Stewart, you made that up!

Dedalus Books Catalogue - Lobster

 

[angerball]

Was this also nominated somewhere for worst erotic novel, or worst sex-scene in a novel? It sounds vaguely familiar, but I can't think from where. I'm sure it was an interesting read.

I'll answer my own question....yup, it was! Here you can read a passage in all it's titillating, erotic glory.