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3/11/2007 3:51 PM The Naked Apiarist: Elementary Mistakes in Bee-keeping (3 Comments)
- Larry [Of co
- 27, United Kingdom
The Naked Apiarist: Elementary Mistakes in Bee-keeping
It's that times of year again, once again the nominees have been announced for The Bookseller Oddest Title of the Year Awards. And if you are interested the shortlist of titles this year is:
1)Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan: Magic Medicine Symbols in Silk, Stone, Wood and Flesh.
2)How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich.
3)Di Mascio's Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry. An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans.
4) The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification.
5) Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium.
6) Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence.
With such sterling examples this year, do you think that you have come across a book title that is odder than any of these?
3/12/2007 7:22 PMRe: Re: The Naked Apiarist: Elementary Mistakes in Bee-keepi
Larry [Of co
27, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Oh that one caught my eye as well. So much so I've already ordered a copy.
I'm surprised that you don't have any odd titles Cuna. Admittedly my library is very eccentric with bookcases devoted to esoterics, mythical creatures etc.
If I had to pick from mine the winner would have to be:
Charles Duff’s,
A Handbook on Hanging: Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution, and containing much useful information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an account of the late Mr. Berry's method of Killing and his working list of Drops; to which is added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and certain other items of interest, by Charles Duff, New edition enlarged diligently compared and revised in accordance with the most recent Developments. All Very Proper to be read and Kept in Every Family.
A short and snappy title.
I'm surprised that you don't have any odd titles Cuna. Admittedly my library is very eccentric with bookcases devoted to esoterics, mythical creatures etc.
If I had to pick from mine the winner would have to be:
Charles Duff’s,
A Handbook on Hanging: Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution, and containing much useful information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an account of the late Mr. Berry's method of Killing and his working list of Drops; to which is added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and certain other items of interest, by Charles Duff, New edition enlarged diligently compared and revised in accordance with the most recent Developments. All Very Proper to be read and Kept in Every Family.
A short and snappy title.
3/13/2007 8:41 AMRe: Re: Re: The Naked Apiarist: Elementary Mistakes in Bee-k
a short and snappy title for a snappy Art.... ;)
kind of creeps me out...
well you'll be happy to know that i have looked through and through my library and the oddest title i have is 'Zillionz': a book about numerology...
'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle' is also an odd title with odd content... uuuh how i hated reading that book!!
kind of creeps me out...
well you'll be happy to know that i have looked through and through my library and the oddest title i have is 'Zillionz': a book about numerology...
'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle' is also an odd title with odd content... uuuh how i hated reading that book!!
3/12/2007 2:10 PMRe: The Naked Apiarist: Elementary Mistakes in Bee-keeping
However odd they may seem the number 1) book seems interesting!! I would vote that as the oddest title!!