Voting opens in search for oddest book title
Forget the Booker of Bookers. The quest to find the oddest book title of the past 30 years has begun today, with Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice the early frontrunner.Launched by the Bookseller magazine to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, the Diagram of Diagrams will be decided by a public vote. It pits Versailles: The View From Sweden against Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers, Reusing Old Graves and Last Chance at Love: Terminal Romances.
..."My personal favourite is Bombproof Your Horse," said the charts editor of the Bookseller, Philip Stone. "But I think the public is fascinated by the more lewd titles, so The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories has a good chance."
Personally I voted for The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today.
Stand up and be counted, people.
August 12 2008, 09:25:03 UTC 3 years ago
August 12 2008, 21:41:07 UTC 3 years ago
But I had to vote for Highlights in the History of Concrete. That's gold.
August 13 2008, 04:34:29 UTC 3 years ago
Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
How to Avoid Huge Ships
I think the diagrams in the second book would be great.