Ok...so while lazily browsing the web I came across an article that made me chuckle....but also astonished me in its subject.
Not only are these book real.....but some have even won awards.....albeit a certain category...not exactly the Pulitzer prize! I suppose it gives me hope for my writing....hmmm.....If these books are selling...let alone actually being published... than there is something very wrong with the world today. But hey, I guess we knew that anyway.
These are just some of the books on the market today....
a) "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America. A Guide to Field Identification". Pretty self explanitory this one - a guide to the different types of abandoned shopping trolleys.....This won the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year.
b) "Weeds in a Changing World"....Because weeds count too! Weeds clearly need to keep up with the changing times...but technically as a definition of a weed is only "a plant out of place"...this book could contain a lot of information.
c) "How To Shit in the Woods. An Enviromentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art". Who new that was a lost art....they should have talked about that more at school....maybe in Geography instead of Glaciers and Erosion.
d) "People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting Bystanders and What To Do About it"....that could be unfortunate.....and embarrassing.
e) "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice." The poor mice.....did they know they were nude?? Are all mice nude, or only when shaved...hmm....
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