Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin
10 best books like Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin (Iris Bahr): All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust, Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture, J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography, Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads, Krazy and Ignatz, 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick, Worst Laid Plans: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People, The Risks of Sunbathing Topless: And Other Funny Stories from the Road, Flaming London
All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House
| Author | David Giffels |
| ISBN | 0061362867 |
Finding the perfect house is never easy. Rebuilding one from a crumbling pile—to say nothing of making it into a home—is even harder.
With their infant son in tow, David Giffels and his wife comb the environs of Akron, Ohio, in search of just the right house for their burgeoning family. Running...
Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust
| Author | Leanne Lieberman |
| ISBN | 1459801091 |
Lauren Yanofsky doesn't want to be Jewish anymore. Her father, a noted Holocaust historian, keeps giving her Holocaust memoirs to read, and her mother doesn't understand why Lauren hates the idea of Jewish youth camps and family vacations to Holocaust memorials. But when Lauren sees some of her friends--including...
Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing
| Author | Pat Mills |
| ISBN | 1840234520 |
Marshal Law is a high-octane black comedy, a satire on superheroism which tackles many of the same themes as its contemporary, Moore's much-lauded 'Watchmen'. But while Moore takes a serious, realistic tack in his deconstruction, Mills' satire is much more overt and over-the-top.
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| Author | Paul Krassner |
| ISBN | 0671898434 |
The author is a standup comic, a long-time writer and editor of a provocative periodical called "The Realist," and an associate of Lenny Bruce, Abby Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Charles Manson, Squeaky Fromme, Larry Flynt, and other famous fringe folk from the sixties and beyond....
J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 0809095033 |
A True History of Violence (and Crimefighting, Politics, and Power)
In the hands of gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, J. Edgar Hoover's life becomes a timely and pointed guide to eight presidents--from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon--and everything from Prohibition to cold war espionage....
Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads
| Author | Ellen Forney |
| ISBN | 1560978848 |
Ellen Forney's follow-up to her wildly successful I Love Led Zeppelin is a collection of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunningly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet online world of personal classifieds. Forney has for several years been illustrating the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger's...
| Author | George Herriman |
| ISBN | 1560975075 |
This volume is one of a long-term plan to chronologically reprint strips from the prime of Herriman's career, most of which have not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost...
| Author | Alexandra Lydon |
| ISBN | 0810989026 |
“When bad sex happens to good people, there is no recourse like full disclosure,” is the motto of Worst Laid Plans, a collection of forty probably-too-intimate, but shockingly funny, true-life tales of lust gone wrong. The stories are divided into themed sections including Foreign Affairs...
| Author | Kate Chynoweth |
| ISBN | 1580051413 |
If they could it do it all over again, they might not... so it's a good thing they can't, because then we wouldn t hear about Marrit Ingman s disastrous honeymoon in Maui; Sunset editor Allison Aves s eco-escapades in Costa Rica, where she meddled in the love unions of nesting turtles, catching eggs as they...
| Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
| ISBN | 1596060255 |
Ned Lives!
That's right. Ned the Seal of Zeppelins West survived the shark attack from his last adventure, and he's back in a new escapade starring Jules Verne, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells and his Martian invaders, as well as a number of surprise guests you may or may not recognize.
Yes, my...
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
In 1997 Rebecca Brown's mother, Barbara Wildman Brown, became ill with cancer. In Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary the author traces, in sparse prose, the slow, gradual erosion of her mother's health, her dignity and her life. In seventeen short chapters, from 'anaemia', 'twilight sleep'...
Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob"
| Author | Ivan Stang |
| ISBN | 0671671901 |
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Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
| Author | Penn Jillette |
| ISBN | 0394753518 |
What an awesome find in the "free bin" at the co-op! A discarded library book in perfect shape! I remember my brother playing one of many dirty tricks on me as a child...I think I was 11 and he was 18. He had me pick a card and bet me what was a large sum of money to an eleven-year-old that he could guess my card,...
| Author | Bee Lavender |
| ISBN | 1888451793 |
It is one of the many charms of this book that Lavender is not only aware of the conventions of such autobiographies but that she consciously rejects them. Her powerful, elegant memoir should be read by everyone.... as an example of what truly well-written and unflinching self-examination can be like.
-The...
25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
With each new technological advance, pornography has proliferated and degraded in quality. Today, porn is everywhere, but where is it art? 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom surveys the history of pornography and argues that the success and vibrancy of a society relates to its permissiveness in sexual...
| Author | Ken Kesey |
| ISBN | 0670003468 |
This is not an ordinary book. First of all it has a lot of images in it. But they are not simple images and work almost like a comics. Being both a huge comics' fan and a fan of the counter-cultural hippie 60s I tend to say that this is a brilliant collection. This book is not any less interesting than that of Mr....
The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex
| Author | Kristen Schaal |
| ISBN | 0811871266 |
Welcome to The Sexy World of Sexy Sex.
Sex is the most powerful and important thing in the universe, and if you aren't instantly good at it, you probably never will be and everyone will laugh at you. This is something you should know before even attempting sex. Fortunately, you hold in your hands...
The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived. Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal movies, passages from his books, his articles for magazines ranging from The New Yorker to the Saturday Evening Post, the choicest ad-libs and quips from...
Chronicles of Wormwood: Last Battle
Danny Wormwood, the Antichrist, has killed God and The Devil to avert his destiny, but now faces a horrific new evil: the corrupt, demonic Pope Jacko.
Writer Garth Ennis returns to the chronicles of Danny Wormwood, a shifty yet sympathetic television executive who also happens to be the Antichrist. ...
| Author | Periel Aschenbrand |
| ISBN | 0062026895 |
A bawdy and unabashed memoir of the author's journey from soul-crushing break-up to unexpected love, perfect for readers who love the humor of Chelsea Handler.
"Ribald, outrageous, gutter-mouthed, hilarious-a startling new voice in American letters. Watch out Portnoy, watch out Caulfield,...
Hitchhiking with Larry David: An Accidental Tourist's Summer of Self-Discovery in Martha's Vineyard
| Author | Paul Dolman |
| ISBN | 1592408265 |
A memoir about a broken-hearted, middle-aged man who stumbles upon solace, meaning, and Larry David while hitchhiking his way around Martha’s Vineyard
One summer day on Martha’s Vineyard Paul Samuel Dolman was hitchhiking, and none other than Larry David pulled over and asked, “You’re...
| Author | Edith Konecky |
| ISBN | 1558612815 |
A special twenty-fifth anniversary edition relaunches this beloved classic coming-of-age nove, which was called "one of those rare delights…as wise as it is funny" (Alix Kates Shulman, Ms. magazine). This endearing novel chronicles the growth of the young Allegra in pre-World War II Brooklyn...
Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
| Author | John Waters |
| ISBN | 1560256982 |
To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. Thus begins John Waters's autobiography. And what a story it is. Opening with his upbringing in Baltimore ("Charm City" as dubbed by the tourist board; the "hairdo capital...
