Living Dead Self-Help Book wins oddest title award

The living dead beat rhino horn management to be named the oddest book title of the year.

Bookseller magazine gave the award to a self-help book on being haunted entitled People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It.

In a close fight, the runner-up was Rhino Horn Stockpile Management: Minimum Standards and Best Practices from East and Southern Africa.

Previous winners have been Bombproof Your Horse and Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers.

- Reuters

With a different subtitle maybe my book could be a contender for this award. Something like:
Hippo Eats Dwarf: A guide to self-defense for little people visiting Africa.

There’s an idea. Maybe we could have a contest to think up weird alternative subtitles for my book. The winner gets a signed copy of it.

Ok, Alex. Here’s my entry - “Dwarf Eats Hippo: Some Bizarre Tales of Ravenous Midget Syndrome”

Perhaps, “Hippo Eats Dwarf - A report from the belly of the beast.”

“Hippo Eats Dwarf - The Unauthorized Biography of Burl Ives”

Alex - 06 March 2006 06:36 AM

With a different subtitle maybe my book could be a contender for this award. Something like:
Hippo Eats Dwarf: A guide to self-defense for little people visiting Africa.

There’s an idea. Maybe we could have a contest to think up weird alternative subtitles for my book. The winner gets a signed copy of it.

HA…..Alex made a funny…....not bad….

Hippo eats Dwarf - Why Snowhite never visited the Zoo…

Hippo eats Dwarf - Why the Travelling Garden Gnome disappeared in Africa

Hippo Eats Dwarf-Or did it?
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Hipp Eats Dwarf - 101 Indicators That Your Get-Away Vacation Has Gone Wrong

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