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27 Mar 2009 11:53

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Offbeat: Odd book titles are worthy of awards too, apparently

  • What does the future hold for these items? Well, given that fromage frais normally comes in 60-gram containers, one would assume that the world outlook for 0.06-gram containers of fromage frais is pretty bleak. But I’m not willing to pay £795 to find out.
  • Philip Stone • Charts editor of The Bookseller magazine, on the winner of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, “The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais.” That book sounds loaded with suspense. • source