Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Ex-pimp wins prize for oddest book title

|
|
 
  
Published: March. 28, 2008 at 11:08 PM

LONDON, March 28 (UPI) -- "If You Want Closure, Start with Your Legs" has garnered the Bookseller's Diagram award for the most peculiar book title of 2007, a British newspaper said.

The relationship guide was written by a former pimp who goes by the name of Big Boom, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.

Publishers, booksellers and librarians around the world offered suggestions for the 30-year-old award and nearly 10,000 people voted on the Bookseller's Web site for the winner.

Coming in at a close second was "I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen."

Other titles to make the short list were "Cheese Problems Solved"; "How to Write a How to Write Book"; "Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues"; and "People Who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr. Feelgood," the newspaper said.

Topics: King Canute
© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional Entertainment News Stories
1 of 29
Members of the Army's Old Guard place flags at Arlington National Ceremtery
View Caption
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
fark
Only in Miami: Police shoot, kill naked man who was EATING A MAN'S FACE
You can get just about anything you want at Afghan markets, including lots of stolen American military...
Chicago Fark Party - 9 June - New bat time, new bat channel
Apparently one of the 11 secret herbs and spices KFC uses is wood harvested from Indonesia's endangered...
New York Times jumps on goofy trend piece bandwagon, explores hot trend of 16-year-old "young cougars"...
Body found floating in Nova Scotia river stuffed in hockey bag. If this story was any more Canadian,...