Books and Zines

While I'm certainly no slouch when it comes to reading books, and I've read my fair share, my book reading has tapered off because of my interest in the Net…but that won't stop me from trying out a new bookstore (especially a used book store!) when I discover one.

Abunga Books

Bringing decency to their clients by proudly censoring their own stock based on customer demand.

Book Happy

Reverend Donna Kossy specializes in discovering the strangest and most bizarre books ever published.

Book Slut

A Web zine for obsessed book fanatics. Not that I know any book fanatics myself…do you?

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Because comic books are just for kids, and they should never ever have adult themes and images!

Got Books?

A Massachusetts-based charity fundraiser that specializes in book donations – think "Goodwill for books" and you've got the idea.

LibraryThing

Thousands of book lovers listing their book collections online…and bragging about them.

PaperBackSwap.Com

If you have some paperback books that you want to trade for other books, then this place is heaven!

Reviews on amazon.com

Over on Amazon, I've written about two dozen reviews of various books and movies on video. A few are copied from the text on my Web site here, but most of them are original. Feel free to disagree with me and send hate mail.

See also: Amazon - So You'd Like To Learn About The Written Works Of L. Ron Hubbard: my own commentary on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's literary career, written for Amazon.com. I tried to be as honest and neutral as possible, acknowledging the fact that Hubbard wasn't a bad writer…at first.

Safe Libraries

Public libraries are encouraging our innocent children to read pornography!!!

Fiction

• Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The Dark Beyond The Stars by Frank M. Robinson
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Left Behind by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
• Lord Horror by David Britton and Kris Guido, Savoy Books
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Manga Bible
  

The Holy Bible done as Japanese comics, a.k.a. manga.

• Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
• Snow Crash and The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Non-Fiction

• Adcult USA by James B. Twitchell
• The Big Book of Conspiracies by Doug Moench
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
• Divine Help
  

A mass-mailed book meant to rope in suckers for St. Matthew's Churches.

• Everything Is Under Control by Robert Anton Wilson
  

This one could be subtitled "A Beginner's Introduction To Conspiracy Theories" by Robert Anton Wilson. Still, anything by RAW is worth reading…

• The Evidence Bible by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron
  

An arsenal of evidence of the scientific proof of the Bible.

• Flim-Flam! by James Randi
• For Keeps by Pauline Kael
• Going Postal by Mark Ames
• The Guide to Getting It On
  

Possibly the best guide to sex ever published!

• Have You Lived Before This Life? by L. Ron Hubbard
  

Scientology's proof of the existence of past lives, all presented here for easy reading.

• High Weirdness by Mail by Rev. Ivan Stang
• I Quit, But Forgot to Tell You by Terri Kabachnick
• Kooks by Donna Kossy
• Letter To A Christian Nation by Sam Harris
• Of Mice and Magic by Leonard Maltin
• Outposts: A Catalog of Rare and Disturbing Alternative Information by Russ Kick
• PGP -- Pretty Good Privacy by Simson Garfinkel
• REsearch #10: Incredibly Strange Films
• SCHWA World Operations Manual
• The Secret
  

The secret conspiracy that's keeping you from thinking nice thoughts to improve your life.

• Team Rodent by Carl Hiaasen
• Tex Avery - King of Cartoons by Joe Adamson

Comic Books

• The Birth Caul by Alan Moore
  

A combination of comic book and audio CD that blend together into a gnostic ritual, performed by Alan Moore in November of 1995.

• Crisis On Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman and George Perez
  

I still consider this the greatest of the "epic superhero crossover series" published by Marvel or DC.

• Pulp Dreams by George McVey: Four-fisted pulp action-adventure comics with a flair for the bizarre. "Mutants! Monsters! Madness! And Robot Love!"
• IF-X by Michael Marcus, aka Jacques Treatment: Anthology comics with changing themes bridging the gap between audience and artists.
• The Superman Home Page
• The Jack Kirby Collector
• The Alan Moore Fan Site
• Fuck Off And Die
• Milk and Cheese
• Lord Horror, Meng and Ecker
• Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
• The Plot by Will Eisner
  

Eisner's exposure of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

• Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
  

The comic book series that rocked "mainstream" superhero comics to their core in the early 1980s.

Zines

• 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
• AdBusters
• Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
  

And it is, too! It used to be a zine, now it's a blog.

• Book Happy
• Buffalo Beast
• The eXile Russia based political and social commentary in which Reagan gets the obituary he deserves.
• Gauntlet: Exploring the Limits of Free Expression
• "The Chap": Documenting Decadence With Panache
• Video Watchdog: The Perfectionist's Guide to Fantastic Video
  

Are you looking for that special 126-minute edition of Metropolis? These guys can help!

Catalogs

• Loompanics Unlimited
• Paladin Press
• Prometheus Books
• Psychotropedia
  

An excellent guide by Russ Kick to fringe publications of every stripe