What are these weird books at Kobo US?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Daniel Jackson

It's intelligence agencies sending encoded messages to their spies. Out in the public but still secret, it's pretty smart. Like those mysterious numbers radio stations. To us it seems like random nonsense but the spies know how to decode it.

That's good!

Having once had a Top Secret clearance (this was many years ago, however), I just decoded part of the sentence from DrRocco's post, and the first three letters are these: 'S', 'H', 'I'. Unfortunately, I am unable to decipher the remaining letter.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DrRocco

As an experiment, I tried putting a random date "1926" into Kobo's search field. Sure enough, half way down the results --
The Emperor's Auntie 1926
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-s-auntie-1926

This female guard was angry in her heart, attacking her teeth and scolding: “You are actually mean.”

Take a look at the preview for this book. It's something else. It's that bad. It does look like a drunk Ai wrote it.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Take a look at the preview for this book. It's something else. It's that bad. It does look like a drunk Ai wrote it.

It's quite obvious to me that these books are long-lost sequels to Joyce's Finnegans Wake, written by the Master himself but never revealed to the public. Joyce apparently anticipated the Nouveau Roman movement when he initially diverged from the classical literary from, thus setting in motion a fiction that - at best - can only be described as liberating!

Truly, we are in the midst of a literary paradigm shift of the utmost importance, and these newly-discovered works of genius should be disseminated to every genre-ridden reader ensconced in his or her own mummy-wrapped shell of comfortable denial!

I'm talking to you, Jon!

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

It's quite obvious to me that these books are long-lost sequels to Joyce's Finnegans Wake, written by the Master himself but never revealed to the public. Joyce apparently anticipated the Nouveau Roman movement when he initially diverged from the classical literary from, thus setting in motion a fiction that - at best - can only be described as liberating!

Truly, we are in the midst of a literary paradigm shift of the utmost importance, and these newly-discovered works of genius should be disseminated to every genre-ridden reader ensconced in his or own mummy-wrapped shell of comfortable denial!

I'm talking to you, Jon!

No thanks. I cling to my mummy wraps until I die.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

No thanks. I cling to my mummy wraps until I die.

No Tana leaves for you, Imhotep!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

It's quite obvious to me that these books are long-lost sequels to Joyce's Finnegans Wake, written by the Master himself but never revealed to the public. Joyce apparently anticipated the Nouveau Roman movement when he initially diverged from the classical literary from, thus setting in motion a fiction that - at best - can only be described as liberating!

Truly, we are in the midst of a literary paradigm shift of the utmost importance, and these newly-discovered works of genius should be disseminated to every genre-ridden reader ensconced in his or own mummy-wrapped shell of comfortable denial!

I'm talking to you, Jon!

You read 10 of these works and tell me which ones you would read again, read them again and I'll not read any of them.

[DrRocco]

It's kind of amazing how many of these there are. If you click on any of the "author's" names, you'll get a whole new batch, each with a random stock photo of a person on the cover:
Marce Holmes

I think my new favorite is "Mom of the Jill House" by Jill House.

[Uncle Robin]

"He removed his throat softly, showing a major face" - from the aptly named Self-Destruction 1895 - Not so much a Scooby Doo ending as a Cthulhu ending?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by DrRocco

It's kind of amazing how many of these there are. If you click on any of the "author's" names, you'll get a whole new batch, each with a random stock photo of a person on the cover:
Marce Holmes

I think my new favorite is "Mom of the Jill House" by Jill House.

I like Jill House, too!

I must say, though, that I am always suspicious of people who are constantly smiling. I mean, did they just come out of the outhouse?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

"He removed his throat softly, showing a major face" - from the aptly named Self-Destruction 1895 - Not so much a Scooby Doo ending as a Cthulhu ending?

I love that quote!

Cthulhu en garde!