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Book titles that should not be
So while I was browsing I came across this:
Frank Herbert: Unpublished Stories and got a chuckle. Alright, so I'm easily amused. Are Wordfire Press the only ones who need to employ an editor for their titles? |
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11-07-2019, 10:21 AM | #3 |
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It's not exactly a book title that should never be but high school during the late 80's was not the place to be carrying around a book entitled Sex and Temperament.
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11-10-2019, 08:32 AM | #4 |
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The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac
You'd think I had better things to do. |
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Two titles that always struck me as particularly unfelicitous are Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. They sound like a couple of morality tracts and not at all like comedy of manners novels.
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On the other hand, sometimes the author was saved from himself. When you consider that Fitzgerald considered naming The Great Gatsby, Trimalchio in West Egg! Sounds like a stinker if there ever was one, and not one of the great American novels.
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That may well have been a useful camouflage, given the moral panic about novel reading at the time.
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