Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Oddest Title Sweepstakes

Catherine McKinnon’s Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues (link) has been nominated at thebookseller.com for recognition as the oddest boot title of the year. It is up against, inter alia, Cheese Probems Solved by PLH McSweeney (link), but here is something odd: per Amazon, customers who bought Cheese Problems Solved also bought four books by Catherine MacKinnon (and a fifth, by Dorothy L.Sayer, called Are Women Human?)--yet remarkably, nobody who buys MacKinnon seems to buy McSweeney.

Both contestants seems to be losing out to If You Want Closer in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs, by Big Boom (link). Ms. Boom’s book has A 2 ½ star Amazon rating on 29 Amazon reviews. Ms. MacKinnon has a five-star rating on two. McSweeney is unrated.



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