"If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs."
Yikes! That's right. That's the title that won London's Diagram Prize for the oddest title of the year.
According to the Associated Press:
Big Boom, the apparently pseudonymous author, calls it a “self-help book, written by a man for the benefit of women.”It’s a book, he writes, that is “raw, honest and about you,” distilling “the sweat off my back, the wrinkles in my forehead from anger and thinking all the time.”
The title triumphed in a public vote over runner-up “I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen” and the third-place finisher, “Cheese Problems Solved.”
“The winner, ’If You Want Closure,’ makes redundant an entire genre of self-help tomes,” said Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller. “So effective is the title that you don’t even need to read the book itself.”
The title joins a pantheon of past winners, including “Weeds in a Changing World” (1999), “The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories” (2003); “Bombproof Your Horse” (2004); and “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” (2006).
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