Every now and then I shall put in a posting that is not related to an actual title I have read. Io shall list these under the heading Odd Blog to differenmtiate from my normal reviews.... Here is the first of them.
Every year since 1978 there has been a competition for the book spotted at the Frankfurt Book Fair that ‘most outrageously exceeds all bounds of credulity’. All these books are genuine. The Prize is entitled the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Winners (and even runners-up) over the last 29 years have included:-
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: a guide to field identification
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice
The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling
The Joy of Chickens
How Green Were the Nazis?
Celebrating Boxes
A General Analysis of the Counting Methods of Chopped Yarrow Stalks in the Book of Changes
Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan
The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prositution
Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Mind Power: How top use the other 90 per cent of your mind to increase the size of your breasts
100 Years of British Rail Catering
Buddhism in Fifteen minutes
Helium in Canada From 1926 to 1931
Memories of an Amnesiac
Are Women Human and Other International Dialogues
People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It
Sodomy In Reformation Germany and Switzerland
How To Write While You Sleep
Tasty Dishes from Waste Items
Having Fun with Rats
Cooking with God
How to Shit in the Woods, an Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
The Interpretation of Geological Time from the Evidence of Fossilized Elephant Droppings in Eastern Europe (published in four languages)
Versailles: the View from Sweden
The Romance of Rayon
Build Your Own Titanic
How To Eat a Peanut
Entertaining with Insects: The Original Guide to Insect Cookery
Big and Very Big Hole Drilling
And my absolute favourite...
The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents. Its History and Its Role in the World today
If you would like to take part in the on-line voting for 2008 go to The Bookseller. Currently leading is If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs
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