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# Bookseller magazine has presented some
candidates for the oddest book title of the year.

:: Louise Jury's article about it ::

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# Jean Baudrillard - Obituary from:

:: The Guardian :: and from:

:: The London Times ::

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# "Do we all get to remove from the library any book that hurts our feelings? Pretty soon you wouldn't have a library -- just a room full of empty shelves."

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# THE LATE TRAIN: "The other Saturday I took a late-night Virgin train back to Milton Keynes after a party in London. As far as I could tell, there was no trouble on board. Yet we were perpetually harangued over the loudspeaker system with threats of dire consequences if we did anything wrong. If we showed any tendency to violence or acted unpleasantly towards staff, the train would stop at the first opportunity, and we would be ejected, said a remarkably aggressive male voice. The same if we were caught smoking."

+ Late trains are often plagued by drunks.

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