Okay, but what if the biblioesoterica has the title on the cover?

Also, I don't think plurker tags work when embedded in pasted text, so CajsaLilliehook

PollyPaperclip: you mean instead of on the spine? so it goes. maybe somebody recognises a book by why the colour scheme.

PollyPaperclip: thank you! ...plurkoterica

oh and it doesn't look like the image loads using porkpaste

"Esoteric Books We Know" (Plurk Paste)

meh

Is this what you're looking for? I painted out the author and title.

Oops, had to fix that, the title was in the blurb.

CajsaLilliehook: I don't see anything but I have no intention of asking people to hide something. I reckon you spotted a title we both have. That's basically the game: joint recognition of familiar little known titles, so much the better if we have them in our libraries.

More_Opie: I recognize a number of your books, but I own none of them (though there are a few that I should own). Is the target volume An Exaltation of Larks? I am familiar with that!

🤗 That's the game! With a little bit of adjustment. First, that target EoL is only in the centre so that I can get the books to the right of it as well. Secondly, if you recognise a lot of the books, then how do we know that they are legitimately esoteric? We will have to see what others say. If everybody knows any of the books then it doesn't winn

I immediately recognized Crossing Open Ground as Barry Lopez is a favorite writer.

CajsaLilliehook: Ah, what a lovely cover, but it isn't one that I have!

CajsaLilliehook: that was the one that made me think up the game. An a-ha moment!

One of these books is mighty esoteric

browsing other people's bookshelves is like that.... 😉

So, I will reprise this section of my shelf for the open ground and perhaps others will find other common ground

PollyPaperclip: I don't think I have any of those, but the Art of Space appeals. I loved that magazine

Oh, OMNI magazine? I loved that, too. I you liked the magazine's visual style then you will love that book. Just don't expect too much out of the documentation. They didn't try very hard lol

Cajsa's books are more esoteric to me. Her shelf could be called "Odd man out": Eragon wins!

One of mine has a special distinction of having turned out to be a complete fraud. "The Long Walk" by Slawomir Rawicz. There are documentaries and books about him, a movie, and then it turned out his story was a fraud.

Sławomir Rawicz - Wikipedia

I did not know it was a fraud when I read it so I cried far too much.

I'm 0 for 2 on these! except for the rolling stone catalogues. all the others are way beyond my ken

Here go: Codex Seraphinianus - Wikipedia

I'd like to see that. remind me of a regional artist here, Simon Lewty.

PollyPaperclip: I recognized the Codex Seraphinianus because I gave it to my daughter’s partner for Christmas a couple of years ago… But I don’t have my own copy

More_Opie: You can get yourself an esoteric book! [The Self as a Stranger: Simon Lewty] [By: Hunt, Ian...

There used to be several people on my timeline who coveted the Codex Seraphinianus.

PollyPaperclip: whoa! what a find! not that I'm going to pay $60 to have it shipped from the US when it might be available much more cheaply here. but the funny thing is is lucci with such an inspiration that I spent about a 3 months trying to figure out how to drive an analogous style for myself. so I kind of got him in my brain anyway.

oops typos. Lewty was such an inspiration. drive = derive

Here are some of mine

Ooh, interesting! I would like to read or hear bits of some of these. Can we start an online snippet sharing podcast?

I have A Gentle Madness!

I love Oliver Sacks!