LONDON (Reuters) - The living dead beat rhino horn to be named Oddest Book Title of the Year.
Bookseller magazine gave the award Friday to a self-help book on being haunted entitled “People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It.”
In a close fight, the runner-up was “Rhino Horn Stockpile Management: Minimum Standards and Best Practices from East and Southern Africa.”
Previous winners have been “Bombproof Your Horse” and “Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers.”
Not having heard of the book, I thought that “dead” probably was a metaphor that applied to people who are intellectually, spiritually or psychologically dead. But, no. I looked the book up at Amazon and it talks about people who have died suddenly or something and attach themselves to a living human. One of the reader reviewers said "I found ‘People Who Don’t Their Dead’ to be a very interesting book. Well, I’ve always found people who don’t their dead to be really interesting people.
No, I don’t think so. But isn’t it a zombie movie? The book is apparantly about spirits who attach themselves to people. Zombies aren’t disincarnate spirits. I’ve seen I Walked With a Zombie though. I was just a little kid and wasn’t too thrilled when my cousin took me to it.
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