Have you ever forgotten the title of a book you really enjoyed? - Page 2

DawnFalcon · 11-05-2009, 03:52 PM

No, just short stories...

(Aliens bred by Humans as shock troopers for use against other aliens of the same species. Elp!)

ardeegee · 11-05-2009, 10:25 PM

Not only do I not remember names of books, I don't remember names of authors when I've read half a dozen of their books. When I'm wanting to recommenced an author, I often have to go into Amazon and plug in the title of a book (when I remember it) to get the author's name. I find that this effect is worse for ebooks than deadtree ones.

If I can remember only a vague description of the book, I have to resort to a YASID on r.a.sf.w.

BenG · 11-06-2009, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by ardeegee

Not only do I not remember names of books, I don't remember names of authors when I've read half a dozen of their books. When I'm wanting to recommenced an author, I often have to go into Amazon and plug in the title of a book (when I remember it) to get the author's name. I find that this effect is worse for ebooks than deadtree ones.

It would be nice if e-book readers would show the cover for a couple of seconds before going to your place in the book. Or rather it should be an option.

montsnmags · 11-06-2009, 08:56 AM

Not only do I not remember the names of books, I often don't remember the names of their authors or characters inside them (inside the books, not the authors

). Actually I have problems with names generally...well, any proper noun really...hell often just nouns. Actually just yesterday I realised that I might be starting to have problems with...well, I couldn't think of the word at the term, but it turns out it was "adverbs".

They're in there...it's all in there. I just can't get to them readily. That's why I love teh interwebs, my computers and my mobile phone - reference, both personal and external. I've a reasonable memory for what we can broadly call "facts" (though I mean fictional or non-fictional "facts" - events, data, connections), no matter how trivial (and there's a lot of that in there), but the words describing them are not filed alphabetically, or at least not according to any alphabet I know. Or maybe it's because I file it all under "D" for "Don't forget" (and yet I definitely put the Escape/Pina Colada Song under "F", but do you think I can forget that Rupert Holmes abomination?).

Cheers,
Marc

Sweetpea · 11-06-2009, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by BenG

That sounds like the plot of every third fantasy novel written nowadays.

That's why it's so hard to find it

I did find some books I had forgotten by just entering some key phrases, but this one keeps eluding me... I'm not even sure if it's a children's book or not, as I read "adult" books even as a child.

MelC · 11-06-2009, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by BenG

That sounds like the plot of every third fantasy novel written nowadays.

Or Oliver Twist

Mel

MelC · 11-06-2009, 04:22 PM

Goodreads has a fairly active "name that book" group as well. I'm impressed at what they have managed to figure out.

Mel

Ea · 11-08-2009, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

Not only do I not remember the names of books, I often don't remember the names of their authors or characters inside them (inside the books, not the authors

). Actually I have problems with names generally...well, any proper noun really...hell often just nouns. Actually just yesterday I realised that I might be starting to have problems with...well, I couldn't think of the word at the term, but it turns out it was "adverbs"

LOL - me, too

I've once had to ask for a piece, of, em... well, you know... a white, flat square thing you can write on

m-reader · 11-08-2009, 06:25 AM

There's was this book I read once by this guy and it was awesome. There was all this stuff in it, and what not ...
Errr ... What was the question again?

Kidding aside, I thank you people for assuring me I am not going prematurely losing my marbles. I regularly forget titles of books and names of authors. It makes it really difficult to recommend a book to someone

. Thanks goodness for Wikipedia!

montsnmags · 11-08-2009, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Ea

LOL - me, too

I've once had to ask for a piece, of, em... well, you know... a white, flat square thing you can write on

Toast?

No, wait, that's not it...

Cheers,
Marc

pilotbob · 11-08-2009, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by =X=

While most of us want to forget terrible books as much as our brains allow, how much can we retain of good books we really enjoyed?

There have been some books I've read in my past and have really enjoyed, yet for the life of me I cant remember their titles. I'm wondering has anybody else forgotten a title of a book you would re-read or recommend?

=X=

Considering we have a thread dedicated to help people figure out the title of a book they read in the past that they can't remember the title of, the answer for most of us is surely yes.

BOb

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11-05-2009, 03:52 PM	#16
DawnFalcon Banned Posts: 2,094 Karma: 2682 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: N/A	No, just short stories... (Aliens bred by Humans as shock troopers for use against other aliens of the same species. Elp!)

11-05-2009, 10:25 PM	#17
ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	Not only do I not remember names of books, I don't remember names of authors when I've read half a dozen of their books. When I'm wanting to recommenced an author, I often have to go into Amazon and plug in the title of a book (when I remember it) to get the author's name. I find that this effect is worse for ebooks than deadtree ones. If I can remember only a vague description of the book, I have to resort to a YASID on r.a.sf.w.

11-06-2009, 08:56 AM	#19
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Not only do I not remember the names of books, I often don't remember the names of their authors or characters inside them (inside the books, not the authors ). Actually I have problems with names generally...well, any proper noun really...hell often just nouns. Actually just yesterday I realised that I might be starting to have problems with...well, I couldn't think of the word at the term, but it turns out it was "adverbs". They're in there...it's all in there. I just can't get to them readily. That's why I love teh interwebs, my computers and my mobile phone - reference, both personal and external. I've a reasonable memory for what we can broadly call "facts" (though I mean fictional or non-fictional "facts" - events, data, connections), no matter how trivial (and there's a lot of that in there), but the words describing them are not filed alphabetically, or at least not according to any alphabet I know. Or maybe it's because I file it all under "D" for "Don't forget" (and yet I definitely put the Escape/Pina Colada Song under "F", but do you think I can forget that Rupert Holmes abomination?). Cheers, Marc

11-06-2009, 04:22 PM	#22
MelC Evangelist Posts: 410 Karma: 2081 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada Device: Cybook Gen3, PRS600	Goodreads has a fairly active "name that book" group as well. I'm impressed at what they have managed to figure out. Mel

11-08-2009, 06:25 AM	#24
m-reader Guru Posts: 785 Karma: 100000 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Sony PRS-300. PRS-650, PRS-900, iPad2, Iconia A500, Irex Iliad (sold)	There's was this book I read once by this guy and it was awesome. There was all this stuff in it, and what not ... Errr ... What was the question again? Kidding aside, I thank you people for assuring me I am not going prematurely losing my marbles. I regularly forget titles of books and names of authors. It makes it really difficult to recommend a book to someone . Thanks goodness for Wikipedia!

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