Vote for oddest book title of the year

Who should win the 2009 Diagram Prize for oddest book title?

Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter

Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich

Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots

Or maybe one of the three other books vying for this coveted prize. You can vote for your favorite online at The Bookseller, just scroll down the page to the poll.

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colin

I guess I missed the deadline with our book “Little Fluffy Gigolo PELU, Volume 1″ by Junko Mizuno.
http://www.lastgasp.com/books/pelu.html
pugg71

I have to say I’m surprised – and somewhat disappointed – that I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President didn’t make it to the poll.
satchellmr

Hitler’s dinnerware ftw!
jerwin

Crocheting adventures in the hyperbolic plane looks pretty interesting, should you fall in the intersection of the set of mathematicians and the set of crocheters.
Jonathan Badger

What struck me is that the linked article gives “Map-based Comparative Genomics in Legumes” as an example of a book title that “furrowed the brow”. Granted, I’m a biologist, but is such a title really that hard to understand for anybody?

I’m not expecting non-biologists to understand the methods of comparative genomics, but I’d think that people understand these days that organisms have genomes, and presumably that they can be compared to each other!
otherthings

I can’t believe this book didn’t make the list:

http://www.amazon.com/Rampaging-Fuckers-Everything-Shitting-Atmosphere/dp/1933929782/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267293052&sr=8-1
Anonymous

I, for one, welcome our autonomous robot overlords.
Talia

I’m not quite sure how the Irritable Bowel Syndrome one made the final cut. Knowing someone who’s life is affected by the disease, I can safely say its not funny.