Whacky book titles

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redgiant replied

6 April 2013, 20:48
This is a famous one ...

The author did some research when choosing a title and the best selling books at the time were about golf, cats and Nazis

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darmstadt replied

6 April 2013, 12:30
You might want to try some of the Diagram Prize winners: Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are some brilliant titles there: The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
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doodab replied

6 April 2013, 11:42
Actually, just looked on Amazon, they do loads of them. Concorde, SR71, Lunar Lander, Harrier, USS Enterprise....
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doodab replied

6 April 2013, 11:41
I have "Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual [NASA Mission AS-506]; C Riley et al (Haynes, 1969)" in solid form. It's an excellent book actually, tons of detail about the mission in the format of a Haynes manual. They do a space shuttle one as well, I'll order that now actually, thanks for reminding me.
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OwlHoot started a topic Whacky book titles

6 April 2013, 11:18
Whacky book titles

Weird titles among the ebooks I've downloaded in the last few months

Practical Plastic Surgery for Nonsurgeons; N Semer (Hanley and Belfus, 2001)

Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing; K Liu et al (Hindawi, 2005)

Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual [NASA Mission AS-506]; C Riley et al (Haynes, 1969)

RMS Titanic [1909-12] - Owner's reference manual; D Hutchings et al (Haynes, 2011)

The Accountant's Guide to the Universe; C Hovey (T Dunne, 2010)

The Evolutionary History and a Systematic Revision of Woodrats

How to tulip In The Woods; K Meyer (Ten Speed Press, 1994)

Flowering and its Manipulation; C Ainsworth (Blackwell, 2006)

Mango Malformation; D Chakrabarti (Springer, 2011)

Slow Death by Rubber Duck; Lourie Dopp (Counterpoint, 2009)

An Atlas of Induced Sputum; R Djukanovic et al (Parthenon, 2003)
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