Diagram: Odd Titles Prize II

Lo que son las cosas, un año después y me sigo riendo de las mismas cosas, ni evolución ni involución, si no todo lo contrario. Les hablaba en Marzo del 2006 de los premios que Diagram otorga al libro con el título más extraño.
Si el título de la pasada edición hacía alusión al fenómeno de los no-muertos, esta vez, el protagonista es el carro del supermercado: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification de Julian Montague. Por si caben dudas, nuestro Oráculo favorito nos lo explica:

"In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings. These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.
Working in the naturalist's tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant in their abandoned, decrepit state, hilariously incapacitated, or ingeniously co-opted. The result is at once rigorous and absurd, enabling the layperson to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found."

El segundo premio fue para Tattoed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan de Robert Chenciner y el tercero para Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence de David Benatar. Otros titulos en pasadas ediciones:

2001 Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service (Butterworths)

2002 Living with Crazy Buttocks (Kaz Cooke - Penguin US and Australia)

2003 The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories (Kensington Publishing)

2004 Bombproof Your Horse (J A Allen)