List of oddest book title finalists
March 28th 2009 01:36
Professor Philip Parker has come out on top in one of the most keenly contested competitions in the literary meritocracy calendar. We refer, of course, to The Bookseller's Oddest Book Title of the Year.
Professor Parker, already famous for being most prolific author in the galaxy and for being mentioned twice previously before on Chris Champion's blogs here and here, beat off some stern challenges for the 2009 odd title title.
The list of 2009 finalists is as follows:
Professor Parker, already famous for being most prolific author in the galaxy and for being mentioned twice previously before on Chris Champion's blogs here and here, beat off some stern challenges for the 2009 odd title title.
The list of 2009 finalists is as follows:
- Baboon Metaphysics, Dorothy L Cheney and Robert M Seyfarth
- Curbside Consultation of the Colon, Brooks D Cash
- Strip and Knit with Style, Mark Hordyszynski
- The Large Sieve and its Applications, Emmanuel Kowalski
- Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring, Lietai Yang
- The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais
- The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today
- The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling
- American Bottom Archaeology
- High Performance Stiffened Structures
- Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers
www.guardian.co.uk, www.readersread.com
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how could that not be the winner!
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...And how many people actually read a PhD thesis?
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Comment by Jeanne Dininni
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I love "The Large Sieve and its Applications." It sounds so...important!
And never before has mere marmalade enjoyed such historical significance! LOL!
Thanks for sharing this fascinating list!
Jeanne
P.S. Sorry to be so late reading this post, but glad I finally came across it!
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Glad you found it at last