B4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 4, 1995 BOOKS Something to offend everyone EVERYTHING from Shakespeare’s plays to a book about severed penises has made Simon Fraser University Bookstore’s annual list of the year's 10 most offensive books. Here are the 1994 winners: m@ 101 Uses for a Severed Penis. By Dan Murphy, Serious Publishing, $6.95. _ “No contest, a hands-down winner,” says SFU book buyer Joann Ficld. ‘‘Even after the penis-shaped book- mark is no longer included, it is still very popular as a stock- ing stulfer.”’ B Dearest Pet: On Bes- tality. By Midas Dekkers, Verso, $41, “A serious, crudite study of the subject which definitely crosses the line in the minds of many people. It offended staff from the minute they began pulting it on the shelves.”’. H 10! Reasons Why a Cat is Better Than a Man. By Alia Zobel, Bob Adams, $6.95. “Like this years's #1 win- ner, this book is offensive to men, but gets rave reviews William =A. Henry from women.’ m@ Merchant of Venice and Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare, various pub- lishers, **We had to explain to many people that Ontario’s Stratford Festival announced they would no longer produce these classics,’* says Field.. Mm in Defence of Elitism, Ill, Doubleday, $26.95. “Last year our store man- ager challenged me to find a book which would offend him and I did. A favourite among clites.’”’ Mm Everyone Poops, by Taro Gomi, Kane/Miller, $19.95 “One of a series of three children’s books (including The Gas We Pass and The Holes in Your Nose). Reac- tions range from ‘hilarious’ to ‘interesting’. Some say ‘in depth’, others ‘too far’.”’ M Courage to Raise Good Men, by Olga Silverstein and Beth Rashbaum, Viking/Penguin, $27.95. ‘Right from the first word in the title, it is considered very Oo & Y AUGIES DINNER SPECIALS Monday... Shrimp Fettucini $5.95 Tuesday......... 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