MetaFilter posts tagged with bookseller

All but one

CrunchyFrog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:14:46 -0800

Mister Bookseller is a short comic by Darko Macan (translated from the original Croatian by a helpful blogger) about a bookseller who stocks almost every book in the world.

The Joy of Chickens?

yhbc — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:37:20 -0800

The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories needs your vote.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, The Bookseller is pleased to announce the "Diagram of Diagrams" – a public vote to find the oddest book title of the past 30 years.
Direct link to poll page is here. There are only a few days left to do your part for world-wide (literary) democracy!

Books Oprah Wants to Club

wendell — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:13:59 -0800

It's time again for the greatest literary competition this side of Bulwer-Lytton: The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title (previously), and YOU can vote here for your favorite from 'the shortlist':
I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen (scroll down to see the author's blog)
How to Write a How to Write Book (other books by the author, mostly unavailable)
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues (written by a woman)
Cheese Problems Solved (ONLY £135.00)
If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs (with extra points for the author's name: Big Boom)
and People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood (this might be declared ineligible since the publisher's cover picture shows a shortened title) The books that, sadly, missed the cut: Drawing and Painting the Undead
Stafford Pageant: The Exciting Innovative Years 1901–1952
Tiles of the Unexpected: A Study of Six Miles of Geometric Tile Patterns on the London Underground(my personal choice)
Squid Recruitment Dynamics (also available as a FREE pdf)
and Glory Remembered: Wooden Headgear of Alaska Sea Hunters

Hypey Potter

humblepigeon — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:01:17 -0800

Harry Potter dies. Harry Potter lives. One thing is becoming clear: Harry Potter is killing the traditional bookseller industry in the UK.

Those Incredibly Strange Book Titles Who Started Publishing And Became Mixed-Up Award Winners

wendell — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:04:59 -0800

The Bookseller/Diagram Prize is a much sillier award than its name suggests. It is presented annually to the "Oddest Book Title of the Year". Past winners include (partial titles) "People Who Don't Know They're Dead", "Bombproof Your Horse", "The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories", and "Living with Crazy Buttocks" (a must-read for MetaFilter moderators). All past winners here. TheBookseller.com is currently polling readers for their favorites from this year's long-winded shortlist at the bottom of its frontpage. Current leader: "Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan" (not available on Amazon!), followed by "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification","How Green Were the Nazis" and the obviously controversial "Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence".
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