Diagram Prize poll

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1823447]
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/diagram-prize-shortlist-revealed.html

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

The oddest book, however, is "The Mushroom in Christian Art", whose thesis appears to be that Jesus was a personified mushroom.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Well bang goes my belief system...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

:-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Mm, definitely!

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I had assumed that Poo was the name of the author, but it turns out to be Thai for 'crab' - and therefore a useful cookbook. It does raise the question of why the publishers translated 'Cooking With' but not 'Poo'.

[adaese.livejournal.com]

That's my reason for disliking the title - I can't shift the suspicion that the publishers were deliberately aiming for this prize (yes it does happen, with books that they know won't get any publicity any other way).

[muninnhuginn]

It's the "volume 2" that does it for me.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

If I had voted for that one, it would have been because of the "Volume 2".