Oddest Book Title Awards

[Moonraker]

I was amused to hear of these awards, which are currently being run. The list includes:

* Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter by David Crompton
* The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Ellen Scherl and Marla Dubinsky
* Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich by James A Yannes
* Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Daina Taimina
* Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots by Ronald C Arkin
* What Kind of Bean is this Chihuahua? by Tara Jansen-Meyer

Some titles eh? I wonder if we could come up with any others?

[Tony Summerfield]

Don't tempt me!!

[pete9012S]

Some titles eh? I wonder if we could come up with any others?

Two titles I think are classics are;

1.Adolf Hitler;My Part In His Downfall By Spike Milligan

2.The Custard Stops At Hatfield By Kenny Everett.

Regards
Pete

[Viv of Ginger Pop]

I've been listening to a Radio 4 programme about the Rhind mathematical papyrus, a text book from Ancient Egypt. It's proper title is

“Correct Method of Reckoning, for Grasping the Meaning of Things and Knowing Everything That is, Obscurities (missing part) and all Secrets”.

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Sounds like we shouldn't have needed any more books!

Viv

[pete9012S]

I found a few more strange titles,heres a few of them.......

I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen

How to Write a How to Write Book

Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues

Cheese Problems Solved

If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs

People Who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood

'But they are not all jokes. I think, for instance, of the winner of the 1992 award, John Trimmer's How to Avoid Huge Ships, whose condensed wisdom would no doubt have been appreciated by the crew of the yacht run over by the Pride of Bilbao;

or the thousands of cheese-makers whose lives, blighted by non-precipitation of casein, will be rendered that much more agreeable thanks to PLH McSweeney's Cheese Problems Solved.

And what is intrinsically funny about Southend, when it can boast an array of luminaries from Canute to Dr Feelgood?

As for Brian Piddock's How to Write a How to Write Book, I actually have a copy, and it does more than what it says on the cover: it's an almost Shandean ramble through the author's life and obsessions, and very amusing if you like that kind of thing.'

Good Idea this thread.
Regards
Pete

[Moonraker]

...People Who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood...

Hmm, Southend is renowned for housing famous people - not all of them were born ther though.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Some very intriguing titles!

Hmm, Southend is renowned for housing famous people - not all of them were born there though.

The full title of Daniel Defoe's novel about castaway Robinson Crusoe is:

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.

[Moonraker]

The full title of Daniel Defoe's novel about castaway Robinson Crusoe is:

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.

What letter would Lenoir list that under?

[Ming]

L!

[Anita Bensoussane]

And sadly no one would ever find it because they'd all be looking under R!

[Ming]

It just about falls under almost every letter, doesn't it?

[Lenoir]

I just hope no-one decides to write an article on it!

If so, it would have to be L as Ming says, because the “The rule” would apply.
The author index would show it under H for himself which would be confusing maybe, but then it has such a long title that it would stand out and would be easy to spot no matter where it was listed!

[Anita Bensoussane]

*Decides to write a Journal article about the influence of Robinson Crusoe (or The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself) on The Secret Island.*

[Fiona1986]

The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Ellen Scherl and Marla Dubinsky..... maybe I've been in healthcare too long but that doesn't strike me as an odd book title at all

[dsr]

The full title of Daniel Defoe's novel about castaway Robinson Crusoe is:

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.

It might have been better to call it:

"Warning - plot spoiler alert - The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates."