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The story of a man who encounters a strange romantic figure from the past who is determined to save him from the future. In a mix of brutal reality and humorous parody, a man called D. Dostoevsky appears to guide our character from irrelevance to a higher calling. Exploring philosophy and theology together in a dystopian mix of fantasy and brutalism in the spirit of Dostoevsky.
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It's Christmas time in Dead Donkey, but Nathan is startled to discover he's not allowed to open his presents! Bureaucratic machinations are to blame. Nathan sets out to deal Director Fulcher a yuletide defeat and get his Christmas presents back. What to give an economist, the origins of reality television, gifts for people you hate, and the true meaninglessness of Atheist Christmas, all in You Are A Christmas Special. (Sign Here Please), a new comedy...
83) Tantrums
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A brutal rendition collected over twenty years, included within is copious stylized prose, unproducable scripts, and psychotic reaction critcism featured across 200 magazines from 2003 - 2023.
84) The 27th Panel
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What is a comic book narrative? How do we tell any kind of story? In the first part of this book, David Macpherson, has attempted a new way to tell a comic book story. He made a pile of 105 random comics and wrote about what was happening in the 27th panel of the comic. He then went to the next comic and wrote down what he saw in that 27th panel. And so on. It tells a broken story that doesn't completely adhere in the way you might want it to. But...
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Part four of Andrew Stanek's internationally condemned You Are Dead series is here! Director Fulcher has a plan to put Nathan's papers in order once and for all, but Nathan has one chance to stop him: through the awesome power of local politics. The Triumvirate of One, the Cult of Pacman, and the bag on Nathan's head, all in You Are Undead.
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For the love of... it's book 4!Why are you even reading this sales blurb?The Easter Tribulation has loads more of all that you loved in the first three books. And some of it arrives in cute bunny outfits! This might very well be the most desperate and epic battle so far in the series. Not to mention the most technologically advanced.We've gone beyond mere water machine guns!But most of all, it's just total mayhem.Seriously, if you liked the first...
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Franz Kafka es considerado uno de los grandes escritores del siglo XX. Asociado al expresionismo y existencialismo, sus creaciones literarias lograron abarcar temas tan complejos como la condición del hombre contemporáneo, la angustia, la culpa, la burocracia, la frustración o la soledad, entre otros. En este volumen de Kafka Esencial , el lector encontrará diez cuentos extraordinários de Franz Kafka, con énfasis en "En La Colonia Penitenciaria".
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The Dark Secrets of Barth and Williams College is a rabbit hole into a world where common sense characters are helpless in the face of hyperbolic depravity. Get ready to be transported to the seedy underbelly of Lutheran academia. The journey is no less hilarious than you might imagine.
At Barth and Williams College, Professor Theodore Roosevelt Thompson is adored by his students and respected by his peers, but the board of trustees endlessly questions...
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The Floor of Heaven is just 257 steps to get to.Something great must be at the Floor of Heaven and you should jump onto the first step and start the climb for salvation.Like all books about faith, this is a counting book. We count up all 257 steps.Surprising things happen on the way to the Floor of Heaven. Will they make sense? Who knows? I mean, does heaven make sense.Take the steps and find out. The only way to reach paradise is by climbing. And...
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Un desocupado ilusionado con conseguir empleo se aferra a su cábala peronista, un flota-flota capaz de volverte loco, un tipo tan insoportable como querible, al que sus amigos quieren presentarle a una mujer, una sala de espera odontológica demasiado hostil, una fiesta de disfraces muy particular, un fundamentalista de la milanesa, un pésimo jugador de fútbol con un secreto escondido, dos estudiantes enamorados, con ideologías opuestas, que intentan...
92) The Bikini Siege
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Remember those great college comedy movies they used to make?Well, this ain't no movie, but The Fraternity & Sorority Wars revives the college comedy genre in all its glory! Giving you all the classic ingredients that made those movies so fun to watch, and putting a fresh twist on an already great genre by adding EPIC WATER GUN FIGHTS!Set on a classic American college campus in a time just before cell phones became a thing. Join the Tri-Alpha brothers...
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In this incomparably brilliant and timeless masterpiece of unrelenting cruelty, two unhappy souls; restless, tormented Rebecca and the harmless mediocrity, McGeeee, find themselves caught in an infinite regress of shifting identities and memories. Rebecca seeks transcendence, an escape from a life she does not know how to live. McGeeee, meanwhile, seems to have no self to speak of, wandering from situation to situation without a sense of purpose....
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Nihil wanders through his days, going wherever it is his steps take him. Through his journeys he encounters characters and situations bizarre, confusing, confounding, somber, surreal, painful, pitiful, pathetic, inconceivable, astonishing and absurd. But, still, in this short novel, Nihil continues walking his steps, and all that he sees, all of it just postcards from the wasteland, leading to what exactly, though?
95) Therapy Mammals
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Tom Pistilini has just discovered he's an unwitting investor in a macabre tourism company bringing wealthy European sightseers obsessed with America's murder culture to explore mass shooting sites. It's a business that will make him wealthy, although he might just despise it enough to ruin his neighbors, and himself, financially.Told from the first-person perspective of unreliable narrator Tom "Pisser" Pistilini, the Patrick Bateman of the private...
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In 2030, America is broke. When NASA is forced to raffle off a trip to outer space and the orbiting Houston Astrodome, Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty, the ticket is won by a guy, from Cleveland who is so fat he can't make it out of his own house, let alone get crammed in a rocket ship. Instead, he auctions the ticket off, and the winning bid belongs to the patriarch of the Van Kruup family, an American dynasty founded on coal, railroads,...
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Cheer up, have fun, and relax with these 10 exciting men's comedy storiesWe all know reading helps us to relax and feel good; but how much stronger is the effect when you're reading a FUNNY book? One that's working hard to evoke bursts of laughter that bother your neighbors and scare the cat?And what if it gets even better?What if that funny book is about the most exciting subject?That's right! Man's Funny Book is all about sex, dates, flings, hookups,...
98) Definitely True
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"The western coast of the Bering Strait is made out of chocolate.""James Kingswell, a high school teacher in the late 1930s, was the first person on record to be able to lick his own eyebrow.""Cocker spaniels can rotate their heads 720°, but only in one direction.""Nitroglycerin was originally used as a spice for tacos."These are examples of the delicious nuggets of misinformation packed into the pages of this book. There are 365 of them; one for...
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Due to the Coronavirus there is a shortage of toilet paper in the country. So when terrorists hijack the last known shipment of toilet paper, the Prime Minister knows it will lead to a civil war if the toilet paper isn't recovered. Fast. So he sends his best agent: Agent Penguin, the cutest penguin in British Intelligence. A surreal comedy short story starring a talking penguin.
100) Emily
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Emily leads an idyllic life. With two delicious meals a day and much pampering from her carer in between 17 hour naps, it is the pinnacle of feline happiness. Add that with her sublime good looks and supreme intelligence that the all mighty and all knowing Felix has bestowed upon her, life was one of simplistic domestic bliss. But after an incident with her dim-witted feline friend Thomas and a nightmarish dream, Emily suddenly begins to question...
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