# Most unfortunate book title ever.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 8, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782 "2003-02-08T23:34:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/1 "2003-02-08T23:34:36Z")
[Isn’t this what we are supposed to have editors for?](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=526QHE57DL&isbn=1570822611&itm=6)
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### Author:  [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/2 "2003-02-08T23:37:03Z")
Y’know, you’d figure that when you go work at the Pooh company, they would have like a day of training where they go over this kind of issue with you.
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### Author:  [@Pucky\_Schumer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucky_Schumer)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/3 "2003-02-08T23:44:30Z")
Actually, I bet they figured they would sell a lot of extra copies just because of the title.
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### Author:  [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/4 "2003-02-09T00:09:47Z")
I’m a big Winnie-the-Pooh fan (classic, not the Disney version, please), so I’ve faced just this issue. For example, my first sentence could have started with “I’m a big Pooh fan” but I just don’t need that kind of aggravation.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/5 "2003-02-09T02:38:25Z")
I have never read this book, but the title alone just intrigues me:
\*\*Love In the Time of Cholera \*\*
Sounds like everyone is just yellowish, coughing up a lung and getting it on. Icky.
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/6 "2003-02-09T02:50:10Z")
**The Madness of a Seduced Woman** by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer.
This is a great book with a seriously cheesy title. I worked in a bookstore when it was released and I couldn’t help but wonder what the customers who bought it for light summer reading, along with 3 Danielle Steele and 2 Jackie Collins novels, made of it.
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### Author:  [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/7 "2003-02-09T03:03:53Z")
Might I nominate: “Who Cut the Cheese: A Cultural History of the Fart.”
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### Author:  [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/8 "2003-02-09T03:24:16Z")
When I clicked on the link, a pop-up window for _Harry Potter #5_ appeared.
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### Author:  [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/9 "2003-02-09T04:12:55Z")
I knew a place that wanted to have a little Winnie-The-Pooh themed corner for children to access through a tiny door and read stories together. The proposed name was “the Pooh hole”.
Disney said no.
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### Author:  [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/10 "2003-02-09T04:32:55Z")
I nominate **He Touched Me** by Televangelist Benny Hinn.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/11 "2003-02-09T05:13:05Z")
I always liked _The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice._
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### Author:  [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/12 "2003-02-09T10:14:04Z")
On a Londope fest we found a book dumped in a bin, entitled
The Log of a Cowboy.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/13 "2003-02-09T15:12:35Z")
Heh, have you folks never heard of [How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595094724/qid=1042498859/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-7600248-7723069) Not only a whacked out title, but a whacked out book as well!
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/14 "2003-02-09T16:33:35Z")
DAMN, **Tuckerfan** , I was going to bring that one up right now! My parents bought it for my brother as a joke present. It’s unreadable, but the title is great.
Arrrrrgh. I was opening my mouth to ask him exactly what the title is – the book is downstairs. You…you…oh, never mind. 🙂
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### Author:  [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/15 "2003-02-09T16:48:52Z")
Sorry for the slight hijack, but **matt\_mcl** mentioned Christopher Hitchens’s excellent book about Mother Teresa called **The Missionary Position**. I have a copy, and it’s a truly great book for anyone with a taste for healthy, skeptical debunking of modern myths. Highly recommended.
You can get entire books devoted to weird and unbelievable book titles, and doubtless there are lists of such on the web.
As someone with an unfeasibly large collection of books on fringe, weird and paranormal subjects, I can say that very few have commensurately weird titles. Jim Schnabel wrote a good book on crop circles which was entitled **Round In Circles** , which I liked, and super-skeptic James Randi wrote a book on faith healing which, in some places, is simply listed as **Randi Faith Healers**. Gamini Salgado edited a fascinating book on Elizabethan scam artists called **Cony-Catcher and Bawdy Baskets** , which is one of my favourite titles, as is a self-help book by whacky Wayne Dyer called **Your Erroneous Zones**. Sadly, nothing the good Dr. Dyer writes about could be as erroneous as some of his own daft ideas (e.g. when a dentist is drilling deep into your root canal without anaesthetic, you ‘choose’ whether or not you feel pain. Don’t think so, Doc.)
Best title I can remember (no cite) is a real book devoted to sea-sickness called **Why Did You Have To Bring That Up?**.
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### Author:  [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/16 "2003-02-09T17:30:06Z")
Could everyone just take a second to read the description and comments for the book on the amazom webpage that **Tuckerfan** linked? That is the funniest thing I have read all day.
-foxy
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### Author:  [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/17 "2003-02-09T17:32:51Z")
Amazo **N**.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/18 "2003-02-09T18:00:13Z")
_Bald Mountain Men_.
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/19 "2003-02-09T18:27:32Z")
Sorry, I misinterpreted the OP. May I offer the following to make amends?
Hog Log
100th Anniversary Edition - Leather Bound (!)
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unfortunate-book-title-ever/153782/20 "2003-02-09T20:07:40Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by casdave \*
> \*\*On a Londope fest we found a book dumped in a bin, entitled
>
> The Log of a Cowboy. \*\*
As I recall, some of the chapter titles were pretty unfortunate too. I don’t actually remember any of them (I was probably busy dodging pigeons), but I do remember **TwistofFate** exclaiming “This is just pornography!”
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