{"id":234,"date":"2008-03-30T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/if-you-want-closure-in-your-relationship-start-with-your-legs\/"},"modified":"2008-03-30T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T21:36:38","slug":"if-you-want-closure-in-your-relationship-start-with-your-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/30\/if-you-want-closure-in-your-relationship-start-with-your-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">from AP via NY Daily News<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #363636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; font-size: 190%; margin: 0px\">Oddest Book Title award winner announced<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 90%; margin: 0px\">THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"datestamp\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; color: #8f8c8c; font-size: 90%; margin: 0px\">Friday, March 28th 2008, 9:38 PM<\/p>\n<p editor_id=\"mce_editor_0\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/London\" title=\"London\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">LONDON<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Good advice? Maybe. Oddest book title of 2007\u00a0&#8211; that&#8217;s official.<\/p>\n<p><a asin=\"B0013L8BOC\" type=\"amzn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a1055.g.akamai.net\/f\/1055\/1401\/5h\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/13790000\/13796231.JPG\" alt=\"Your Legs\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"185\" height=\"277\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p editor_id=\"mce_editor_0\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px\">&#8220;<a asin=\"B0013L8BOC\" type=\"amzn\">If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs<\/a>&#8221; has won the Diagram Prize for the oddest title of the year, The Bookseller magazine announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px\">Big Boom, the apparently pseudonymous author, calls it a &#8220;self-help book, written by a man for the benefit of women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px\">It&#8217;s a book, he writes, that is &#8220;raw, honest and about you,&#8221; distilling &#8220;the sweat off my back, the wrinkles in my forehead from anger and thinking all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px\">The title triumphed in a public vote over runner-up &#8220;I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen&#8221; and the third-place finisher, &#8220;Cheese Problems Solved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0&#8220;The winner, &#8216;If You Want Closure,&#8217; makes redundant an entire genre of self-help tomes,&#8221; said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Joel+Rickett\" title=\"Joel Rickett\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Joel Rickett<\/a>, deputy editor of The Bookseller. &#8220;So effective is the title that you don&#8217;t even need to read the book itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin: 0px\">The title joins a pantheon of past winners, including &#8220;Weeds in a Changing World&#8221; (1999), &#8220;The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories&#8221; (2003); &#8220;Bombproof Your Horse&#8221; (2004); and &#8220;The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/North+America\" title=\"North America\" style=\"color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">North America<\/a>: A Guide to Field Identification&#8221; (2006).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #363636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #363636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px\">[ click to view original article at NY Daily News ]\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP via NY Daily News Oddest Book Title award winner announced \u00a0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday, March 28th 2008, 9:38 PM LONDON\u00a0&#8211; Good advice? 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