{"id":439,"date":"2008-03-28T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/03\/odd-book-title-winner-announced.html"},"modified":"2008-03-28T06:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T06:33:00","slug":"odd-book-title-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/03\/odd-book-title-winner-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Odd Book Title Winner Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bookseller<\/span> magazine has announced the winner in its Oddest Book Title competition<\/a>, and it’s the self-help manual If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs, <\/span>which, um, walked away with a third of the votes. <\/span><\/p>\n

As discussed earlier on this blog<\/a>, there were several great candidates for the prize. My vote went for the classic Cheese Problems Solved,<\/span> because it’s a weirdly obscure title but doesn’t seem to be trying to hard, you know? (Also, I’ve never specifically had what you might call a “cheese problem,” but if one cropped up, I’d definitely want a solution to it.) And I admit to having a real fondness for the contest’s runner-up title, I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen,<\/span> by Jasper McCutcheon, and not just because the title has brought me a lot of Google traffic<\/a>. There is perhaps no more evocative phrase in English than “pygmy love queen.” Attach it to a book of fictional World War II erotica — which this one happens to be — and you’re golden.<\/p>\n

Anyway, congrats to the pseudonymous (I hope) author Big Boom for winning the prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bookseller magazine has announced the winner in its Oddest Book Title competition, and it’s the self-help manual If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs, which, um, walked away with a third of the votes. As discussed earlier on this blog, there were several great candidates for the prize. 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