Sooda Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6437705.stm Odder book titles make shortlist There is an international flavour to the shortlist How Green Were the Nazis? and The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America are just two of the titles competing for an unusual book prize. The Bookseller magazine has released its shortlist for the Oddest Titles prize, honouring fringe publishing. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium is also in the running, with a public vote due to decide the winner. The winning author receives a bottle of champagne for their efforts. Last year's contest was won by Gary Leon Hill for his impressively titled The People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It. Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller, said: "While rival literary awards like the Costas and the Orange Broadband Prize have sold out, The Bookseller/Diagram Prize has refused all offers of corporate sponsorship for 29 years. "It continues to celebrate the bizarre, the strange, and the simply odd. This year's shortlist shows that despite publishers cutting back their lists, literary diversity continues to flourish." The shortlist was compiled from entries that caught the eye of publishers, booksellers and librarians across the world. Another of this year's contenders for the prize starts off simply enough with D Di Mascio's Delicious Ice-Cream, but continues with the subtitle D Di Mascio of Coventry: An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans. The winner will be revealed on 13 April, ahead of the London Book Fair. ------------ LOL...the best bit-check the last one out... SHORTLISTED TITLES How Green Were the Nazis? edited by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier, Mark Cioc and Thomas Zeller D. Di Mascio's Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans by Roger De Boer, Harvey Francis Pitcher, and Alan Wilkinson The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan by Robert Chenciner by Gabib Ismailov, Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov and Alex Binnie Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium edited by Robert J Anderson, Juliet A Brodie, Edvar Onsoyen and Alan T Critchley Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence by David Benatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhondy Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Re: The ODDEST book titles... :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :hic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THX_1138 Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Re: The ODDEST book titles... i kid you not: "a comprehensive introduction to antenna engineering" - balanis had that book for an antenna engineering course some time back... since then the title has been changed to just antenna engineering. and yeah in case you are scratching your head as to what was intriguing about that, subtlety is lost on you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zooter Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Re: The ODDEST book titles... I see that none of you have read my autobiography: "No One Cares About That Tranny Hooker--We're In Mexico: Now Stop Crying And Drive." I suggest you pick up a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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