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Book ExaminerMichelle Kerns writes for a disturbingly eccentric assortment of publications. She loves the movie Hot Fuzz, the fictional character Melrose Plant, and extra dry gin martinis, but most of all, she loves books. Join her daily for an intelligent and uninhibited romp through Book Land.
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How to Sh** In the Woods and other books contending for The Oddest Book Title award
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by Michelle Kerns, Book Examiner
The proud (and odd) winner
The Bookseller began the Oddest Book Title competition in 1978 with the difficult to beat (or believe) Proceedings from the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice capturing first prize. Since then, gems like Living With Crazy Buttocks, Reusing Old Graves, and The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification have shared the notoriety of being named Oddest Book.
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To mark the 30th anniversary of the competition, Aurum Press has just released How To Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books, an illustrated collection of some of the winners and nominees including reproductions of 50 of the best-loved and oddest titles' jackets; now you can spend quiet evenings at home catching up on Greek cancellation numbers (and really, why wouldn't you?)
Before the stampede to purchase How To Avoid Huge Ships begins, however, you might want to take a look at some of these other equally odd titles from creative writers around the globe:
Murder at the Butt
Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself
How to Make Love While Conscious (actually, this book could prove highly useful to some)
101 Super Uses for Tampon Applicators
What Would Jesus Buy? Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopacalypse
The Curious Eat Themselves
The Screwing of the Average Man
Big Spankable Asses
and my personal favorite, the German literary novel Ich reiß mir eine Wimper aus und stech dich damit tot which apparently is translated I'm Going to Pluck One of My Eyelashes Out and Stab You to Death With It.
For more info: To see the full list of previous Oddest Book Title winners, visit the Bookseller.com
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