Ex-pimp wins prize for oddest book title

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.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

Publication date: 29 March 2008

Source: UPI-1-20080328-23082800-bc-britain-title.xml

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