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How to Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books (Humour) (Hardcover)

by Joel Rickett (Author)

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Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd (1 Sep 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1845133218
ISBN-13: 978-1845133214
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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2008 marks the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize, the momentous annual contest to determine the oddest book title of the year. Founded in 1978 by book packagers the Diagram Group to lighten spirits on a dull afternoon at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the prize is a joyous celebration of the barmy side of publishing. Now, for the first time, 50 of the funniest Diagram winners and runners-up are reproduced in full glorious colour in How To Avoid Huge Ships , an irresistible anthology of the oddest of the odd. Here are wildly implausible titles such as Bombproof Your Horse , People Who Don t Know They re Dead and The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories , not forgetting the classic Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers , voted by the public the oddest title of the past 30 years in the hotly contested Diagram of Diagrams. Mind-boggling, charming and utterly unique, How To Avoid Huge Ships is the perfect gift for book-lovers and anyone with a quirky sense of humour.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A disappointment, 25 Sep 2008

By	Pavel Chekov (Napier, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

I read in the news about the recent Bookseller magazine's Oddest Book Title prize and its entries and found them hilarious, but failed to get the list of past nominations and winners on their website, in spite of it being the 30 years anniversary of the prize (getting pages for recent nominations only and sometimes being redirected to nothing actually relevant). But there was a reference to this book, so I thought: "OK, if you want to see the prize historical entries you have to pay for it." I didn't mind, so I got it.
It's a tiny little book. There are JUST 50 ENTRIES, with no proper rhyme or reason why they were selected. Some are actually not that funny and some of the funniest ARE MISSING. There is no information on when a particular entry was nominated, whether it won or was a runner-up. The entry's description is just a few words (often just TWO WORDS) in a single sentence, even though on the website I saw nominations accompanied by proper summaries, which are usually found on the back of any book.
This total lack of information on the entries is compensated by a long and tedious foreword by the Deputy Editor of the Bookseller with some questionable statements ("What makes a book title truly odd? ... Scientists have toiled for years researching that question."), which again fails to mention why only a fraction of the titles was selected.
The book is printed in China. Clearly, whether the paper comes from sustainably sourced wood or through destruction of forests in Russia or Indonesia is not an issue for the Bookseller.
On the only positive side: colour book cover reproductions are nice, but can't compensate for the lack of information (just the title, author, publisher and single sentence "summary" on the opposite page with huge blank spaces as there is so little of it).
I had a few laughs, but generally: thumbs down.

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