(1) Name: Coffee Coffee
Author: Adam Saroyan
Price: $8
The book cover is all white and only has 2 words on it, which is the title “Coffee Coffee.” The binding method of this book is very simple, they only uses staples to stable it. The content is very unique as well. Same as the cover, all the pages in the book are all white. There is usually only one word on the pages but some times two or three same words lined up together. For example, lookout, bird, sleep and people. I can’t really see the connection within each words but it’s really unique.
(2) Name: The Disaster of War
Author: Ann Messner
Price: $15
The form of the book is exactly same as regular news paper, which caught my eyes. There are pictures of soldiers, hostages and dying people from the previous wars. All the picture and articles are collected from different books, newspapers magazines, or website. The author is trying to let people know how scary and terrible the war is. This publication is really easy to read because of its newspaper form.
(3) Name: Prisoner’s Inventions
Author: Temporary Service & Angelo
Price: not specified and didn’t ask the clerk
This publication is like folding an A4 paper from left to right and then up to down. It’s like a small flyer we can get from a supermarket. The content is very interesting; it’s about the inventions made by the prisoners. For example, some of them convert a simple battery become a cigarette lighter and self-made tattoo gun. It’s really fun to see how creative they are even though it’s really not a good idea for them to do all these things without any restrictions.
(4) Name: Dictionary of Keywords
Author: Xu Tan
Price: $50
This publication has a thick green cover on it with spine and flaps. About the book itself, the binding method is the same as the regular text books. The book is written for educational purpose. It teaches people to pronounce some important and weird Chinese words. It has pinyin of the word as all the other Chinese learning books, but the interesting part is it has a sonogram so you can know better how to pronounce it. The problem is it’s somehow hard to understand so I don’t know if the sonogram is really useful.
(5) Name: Lynn Valley #2 / Kleenex Mathematics
Author: Johannes Wohnseifer
Price: $34
The reason why I chose this book is because the cover. Its form is nothing special but the picture is quite unique. It’s a woman with makeup and wrapped with orange skins. Inside the book are unedited spam texts, blend autobiographic detail and dense visual puns with the poetics of strategically designed.
(6) Name: We Are all College Volume 1
Author: Laura Foxman
Price: $20
The form of this one is really special; it’s like a 100cm long paper get folded every 5cm at the same direction and then become a book. Though the content is quite weird, it is composed with blurry wrestling picture or hand-draw chaos people, which are not so enjoyable.