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Originally Posted by Catlady
[T]he Mengele Effect title would have triggered my attention right off the bat since it's got specificity and I would have made an association with Ira Levin's Boys from Brazil.
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I agree completely (though I'm disinclined to read a single book that KF has offered so far -- too many others are more important to me and others still will always jostle their way into my queue).
The Gemini Effect is generic and has been used many times by
companies, entrepreneurs, novelists, filmmakers, TV show creators, those who write the episodes, songwriters, etc.
Whereas
The Mengele Effect is odd enough to stand out and also repeats an alliterative short
e that creates a kind of drumbeat: tuh-TUH-tuh-TUH-tuh-TUH. Here's how a drummer would count it: uh-
one-ee-
and-uh-
two.
All of that makes the title memorable for me. Never mind the questions that arise when you ponder what the Mengele effect might be (twins who survived modifications that turned them inadvertently into mythical beings?). K.W. Jeter wrote a book that's a bit like that (though it's called
The Kingdom of Shadows).