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... ones that I periodically reread, so you're not alone.
Non-fiction, I think the titles that get the oddest looks include Men, Women and Chainsaws about gender roles in horror movies, The History of Hell, and a strange small book called Sexual Behavior of Unmarried Women published in 1950 ... Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
The Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Girl, Interrupted by Susannah Kaysen
The Bitch in the House by Cathi Hanauer A few I like:
Men, Women and Chainsaws
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
and one of my favorites as a child,
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth ... for two by Georgette Heyer
The Guns of Navarone by Alastair MacLean
The Sword and the Mind by Yagyu Muenori
Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover Men, Women and Chainsaws: gender in the modern horror film by Carol J. Clover ...
The Red Hourglass - hugely entertaining, a let-down at 39 copies.
Le grand cahier with 48 copies...
...and Men, Women and Chain Saws with 60.
I know, special interests considered, the numbers are still pretty high, but some of these books are such wonderful reads. Men, Women and Chainsaws: gender in the modern horror film by Carol J. Clover
Lord Demon by Roger Zelazney
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin
Good Intentions by Ogden Nash ... crutch that seemed to plague feminist theory for so long (at least, film theories).
Also, Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Clover examines the horror genre through a mythological structure and coined the term "Final Girl" (one of ...
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