Category: Remaindered
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Remaindered: Rhinoceros Success (1980)
One of the best courses I took in grad school was a survey of self-help literature, and I’ve looked over many books in the success/self-help genre. Self-help authors are incredibly aware of how the genre works and what books have preceded them, and as a result most of them are formulaic and blur together in […]
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Remaindered: If You Were Enlightened, You Wouldn’t Find My Books Weird
I look to GoogleBooks and the advanced search feature of Amazon.com for running keyword searches and finding the research equivalent to a needle in a haystack. Did anyone in the 60s or 70s mention this one specific author or word? In a few seconds, you can find out. Unfortunately, between the two sites there are […]
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Remaindered: Books that don’t belong
Another in an occasional series about books that disorient, perplex, or cause us to question our decision-making abilities. Today, we look at poorly produced literature for police on what to do when battling satanists. Ritualistic Crime Scene Investigation, by Dawn Perlmutter. The Institute for the Research of Symbolic & Ritual Violence, LLC (Pennsylvania, 2007). The […]
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Remaindered: False Nationalism / False Internationalism
It is hard to follow postings in this series which addressed a book on who built the moon and a children’s book on ritual satanic abuse, but I’ll try. With this entry I hope to broaden the remaindered column to include books which are peculiar, and perhaps of limited appeal, but may not be down […]
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Remaindered: Who Built The Moon?
Who Built The Moon? By Christopher Knight and Alan Butler (Watkins, 2007) It must be said that V. Charm is not the only one of us with disturbing books on his shelf. After “proving” that the moon had to have been construction by an intelligence, Knight and Butler offer three theories for its existence: the […]
Milo and the Calf 