09-28-2011, 05:57 AM | #1 |
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I Love Titles. Do you Love Titles? What's your Favorite Title?
fiction, non-fiction, the title can capture the imagination, sometimes the title is better than the story or novel, eh? Sometimes it embodies the entire book, sometimes it is irrelevant, sometimes just pedestrian.
The Grapes of Wrath. The Ones who walk away from Omelas Great Expectations The City & The City A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Of Human Bondage To Kill a Mockingbird Lord of the Flies So, what's your favorite title? |
09-28-2011, 06:15 AM | #2 |
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Let's Put the Future Behind Us
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (PKD has a lot of great ones) Crooked Little Vein Gun, with Occasional Music Cryptonomicon |
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09-28-2011, 06:24 AM | #3 |
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Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
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09-28-2011, 06:28 AM | #4 |
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09-28-2011, 08:25 AM | #5 |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep has always been my favorite. I never understood why the Movie could not use the same title.
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09-28-2011, 10:24 AM | #6 |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is definitely at the top for me.
Only other titles that really captured my attention without knowing the author or book are Blindsight, which I enjoyed immensely and later got all the other books by the author. The Serial Killers Club, where the title got me interested right away for some reason. |
09-28-2011, 11:07 AM | #7 |
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The Dirty Parts of the Bible - Sam Torode
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover - Kinky Friedman They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn Fancies and Goodnights - John Collier The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt Wizard of the Pigeons - Megan Lindholm (aka Robin Hobb) Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold The Seven-percent Solution- Nicholas Meyer Island of the Sequined Love Nun- Christopher Moore To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick |
09-28-2011, 12:32 PM | #8 |
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09-28-2011, 06:38 PM | #9 |
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"The Screwtape Letters" by C.S.Lewis
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09-28-2011, 06:54 PM | #10 |
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The Sailor on the Seas of Fate ~ Michael Moorcock
The Weird of the White Wolf ~ Michael Moorcock The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank ~ Erma Bombeck It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It ~ Robert Fulghum Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West ~ Dee Brown Shoot Low, Boys - They're Ridin' Shetland Ponies ~ Lewis Grizzard Last edited by Phogg; 09-28-2011 at 06:56 PM. |
09-28-2011, 07:35 PM | #11 |
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"Pstalemate" by Lester del Rey
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09-28-2011, 07:57 PM | #12 |
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09-28-2011, 08:19 PM | #13 |
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Some great ones everybody thanks!
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09-28-2011, 11:08 PM | #14 |
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My favorite record album title is Manfred Mann's What a Mann!
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