Worst Laid Plans: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People
10 best books like Worst Laid Plans: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People (Alexandra Lydon): Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Rotten Little Animals, Sex Dungeon For Sale!, Dealing, or The Berkeley-To-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues, Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years, Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads, Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal, Krazy and Ignatz, 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick, Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin, The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC Files
| Author | Tanya Shaffer |
| ISBN | 1400032598 |
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
"Like a bionic Ralph Bakshi reborn from snorting Orwell's ashes, Kevin Shamel drags cherished childhood fantasies into the gutter of adulthood, and makes you pay dearly to swallow them all over again. Intelligence is a universal disease, but never fear... Rotten Little Animals just may be the cure...
| Author | Patrick Wensink |
| ISBN | 1933929863 |
Combine an optimistic realtor selling a home with a sexual playground, a kindergartener convinced he's actually French and something called, "Chicken Soup for the Kidnapper's Soul," and you get Patrick Wensink's hilarious collection of short stories. Sex Dungeon for Sale! Takes these bold characters...
Dealing, or The Berkeley-To-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
To rescue his girlfriend, a weed dealer scraps for a score
The suitcase looks like a standard weekend bag. But like the man who carries it, it isn’t what it seems. Lined with tinfoil to mask the smell, it is a smuggler’s bag and will soon be filled to the brim with marijuana bricks.
The...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0140231587 |
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she...
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...
Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal
| Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
| ISBN | 1616960027 |
What do the disembodied head of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Frankenstein, the Tin Man, Captain Nemo, the Flying Dutchman, and the inestimable Ned the Seal have in common? Find out as they embark upon a spectacular set of nonstop steampunk adventures. For the first time, two epic chronicles, Zeppelins...
| 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 | Iris Bahr |
| ISBN | 1596912340 |
Fresh out of the Israeli Army, twenty-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: she is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity.
Dork Whore is a fresh...
| Author | Armando Iannucci |
| ISBN | 0571272541 |
I will treat this review simply as a place to promote Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It, In the Loop, and the recent American remake Veep. There. Go watch them. This ‘missing file’ contains various snippets pertaining to the employees of most incompetent government department in the world,...
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 0970936001 |
They want me to entertain you bastards," Warren Ellis began his series of columns for the comic book Internet destination website Comic Book Resources.
Part social commentary, part sitting at-the-feet-of-Socrates, part kick in the ass, COME IN ALONE was the column that would zig when you thought...
Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob"
| Author | Ivan Stang |
| ISBN | 0671671901 |
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| Author | Touré |
| ISBN | 0316666432 |
This inspired collection of stories is cause for celebration. In dazzling language and startling images, Touré invents a place called Soul City, America’s most miraculous metropolis. In an astonishing array of voices and styles, The Portable Promised Land celebrates the most soulful corners...
Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
| Author | Audrey Hepburn |
| ISBN | 1931056528 |
This audio was delightfully read by Audrey Hepburn, and Ravel's background music added to the experience.
Unfortunately, this story collection was far from perfect. For one thing, the framing of the stories—told by an old lady (Hepburn) recalling her childhood friendship with Ravel...
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 | William Patry |
| ISBN | 0199760098 |
Do copyright laws directly cause people to create works they otherwise wouldn't create? Do those laws directly put substantial amounts of money into authors' pockets? Does culture depend on copyright? Are copyright laws a key driver of competitiveness and of the knowledge economy? These are the...
In Search of Genghis Khan: An Exhilarating Journey on Horseback Across the Steppes of Mongolia
| Author | Tim Severin |
| ISBN | 0815412878 |
Following the collapse of nearly seventy years of Communist rule, veteran writer and traveler Tim Severin went to Mongolia "to see how much of the tradtional way of life survived." He discovered a country in an uncertain state of transition and struggling with its newfound identity. Part travelogue...
| Author | Victor Gischler |
| ISBN | 0440241715 |
Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike’s making wine in Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you’ve been hiding out for forty years. Until his past comes calling.
Mike’s...
