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Posted: 27-03-2013 05:18 Post subject: Strange Deaths books.

Is anyone else buying these? I bought the second volume yesterday, and received some strange looks as I read it on the bus home.

Posted: 27-03-2013 12:16 Post subject:

Didn't even know they existed!
deo they have those insulting illustrations that I hate so much? Y'know, a sketch representing the 'humorous' death of a named person? Evil or Very Mad

Posted: 27-03-2013 13:30 Post subject:

IIRC one of them has a photo in the front cover of a Spanish guy having been flattened by a rock whilst in coitus with a chicken.

Shocked

Must dig mine out the loft.

Posted: 28-03-2013 00:47 Post subject:

There are no insulting illustrations like in the magazine, just a drawing of a skull at the start of each chapter that is connected to the theme of that chapter. The books are advertised in the magazine itself (and without a copy of FT at hand, I cannae tell you which page the ad appears)

Posted: 28-03-2013 11:20 Post subject:

I love the looks I get from the people opposite when I'm sitting on a train reading a book called something like "Book of the weird", and I occasionally giggle and hold the book close so no one else can peer at the pages. Priceless!

Posted: 29-03-2013 00:20 Post subject:

Are you ever tempted to read passages out loud to your fellow passengers?

Posted: 30-03-2013 05:32 Post subject:

I must be the only person buying them...

Posted: 05-04-2013 01:09 Post subject:

They're the books advertised at the bottom of the Strange Deaths column. Anyone else buying them?

Posted: 05-04-2013 14:13 Post subject:

I've never seen them anywhere to buy... Confused

Posted: 06-04-2013 04:14 Post subject:

I've seen them on sale in a few places in Sydney papershops...

Posted: 06-04-2013 13:34 Post subject:

I've seen them in my local Newsagent - same place I buy my FTs. But I didn't get one. I'd have bought an IHTM book though.

Posted: 07-04-2013 02:29 Post subject:

While I haven't bought an IHTM book - I find that section of the magazine to be dull - I do have both Strange Deaths books, which is well worth the read...