Monday, April 16, 2007

Wackiest book titles

Associated Press report:

And the winner for 2007 isss ...The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification.

Written by Julian Montague, the book offers a guide to identify varieties types of lost shopping carts, from those that are simply discarded to those that are elaborately vandalized.

Stray Shopping Carts received one third of the more than 5,500 votes cast by members of the public on the website of The Bookseller.

The runner-up was Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan by Robert Chenciner, Gabib Ismailov, Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov and Alex Binnie (Bennett & Bloom).

Other finalists: How Green Were the Nazis? by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier, Mark Cioc and Thomas Zeller (Ohio University Press) a study of the environmental policies of the Third Reich; Di Mascio's Delicious Ice Cream: 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 (Past Masters); Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium (Kluwer); and Better Never To Have Been: the Harm of Coming Into Existence by David Benatar (Clarendon Press).

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070413/ap_en_ot/books_odd_titles

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