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From Yahoo News

"'The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification' was named winner of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for oddest book title...

The other finalists were '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).

Past winners of the 29-year-old prize include 'People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It.'"

Date: 2007-04-15 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jissa.livejournal.com
OK, now I really want to read that book. It sounds absolutely hi-larious!

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