Books You Don’t Remember the Name or Author of - Because if I can’t remember the name, it’ll drive me crazy

[horrorfan89]

Literally all I can remember about this book I must have read as a real little kid was it had a watercolor illustration of a cat looking glum because it has to get a tomato juice bath from its owner, possibly because it got sprayed by a skunk. I think its name was George? The only line I remember is "George you smell worse than a skunk in a pig's throat. "


It's so odd, this could be a memory from I was so young that it may not even be real. Just a fragment my mind is making up because it's combing so far back into my memory that I may as well be trying to remember being an infant.

 

[Purple Pepsi]

I remember the cover was white with red lettering, and it was told in first person POV about a truck driver who murdered women along his route. It was nonfiction and an actual (auto)biography, but it had a ghostwriter instead of the actual guy in prison writing it.

 

[The Vicar]

I remember the cover was white with red lettering, and it was told in first person POV about a truck driver who murdered women along his route. It was nonfiction and an actual (auto)biography, but it had a ghostwriter instead of the actual guy in prison writing it.

This may be I: The Creation of a Serial Killer by Jack Olsen (2003). Partly written in the first person, it tells the story of Keith Hunter Jesperson (aka the "Happy Face Killer").

 

[You Bastard Guy]

Ok, I’m going to give this a try.

It was some random discarded book I picked up in a bus station in the mid 90s, of all times and places. It was a paperback, had a black cover, and the author was someone I didn’t recognize and can’t remember. It is a collection of short pitch-black gothic fantasy horror stories. The only story I read was about a couple of peasants who ran away to be together, and who ended up staying with a wizard. The woman gets pregnant, and the wizard slowly transforms her (or both of them) into a tree,

I read that, stashed it in my bag, and fell asleep. Then I changed buses a couple of times in quick succession. When I got on my next long bus, I reached for it and discovered to my horror that I had somehow lost it. Even now, it may be roaming bus station waiting areas or stuck between seats on a Greyhound, waiting to ensnare its next victim…

 

[Rezza]

This thread reminds me of a children's book I read back at middle school. It's translated to our language, so I can't really remember the title. The story is about a group of kids who due to something about career day in their school, hypnotized themselves and believed they're reincarnation of people in the past. I remember two of them believe they are reincarnation of Einstein and a race horse. It think it's an Australian novel, maybe? Can't really remember. The story and the ending was pretty weird. I want to know what else the authors made since it's quite trippy to read

 

[glass_houses]

This thread reminds me of a children's book I read back at middle school. It's translated to our language, so I can't really remember the title. The story is about a group of kids who due to something about career day in their school, hypnotized themselves and believed they're reincarnation of people in the past. I remember two of them believe they are reincarnation of Einstein and a race horse. It think it's an Australian novel, maybe? Can't really remember. The story and the ending was pretty weird. I want to know what else the authors made since it's quite trippy to read

Oooh! Oooh! Pick me! Pick me! I know this one!

It's an episode of a tv series and a book, both written by Morris Gleitzman, an Australian children's author.

Book here.

IMDB entry here.

And here's the tv episode in question.

 

[Rezza]

Oooh! Oooh! Pick me! Pick me! I know this one!

It's an episode of a tv series and a book, both written by Morris Gleitzman, an Australian children's author.

Book here.

IMDB entry here.

And here's the tv episode in question.

Ah, yes....this is the one. God...the book was quite decent until the ending. It was trippy to read it.
Turns out I only remember the subtitle the local publisher put for the translated edition