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Title pet peeves
Taking inspiration from the blurb pet peeves, I thought I'd share another, and didn't want to go OT on the other thread:
Book titles. Or, more to the point, excessively LONG book titles. Let me provide an example* Quote:
I imagine authors do this as part of "optimizing" for search... In my opinion, it is a fairly certain sign of an author out to make a quick buck on current trends, rather than one who can tell a good story. Does anyone else have any pet book title peeves? *Completely fabricated - or at least I hope so! |
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10-14-2015, 06:33 AM | #2 |
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Long book titles used to be all the vogue. Eg I have on my iPad a book about Egypt written by Giovanni Belzoni in the early 19th century which has the catchy title:
"Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia; and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, In search of the Ancient Berenice; and another to The Oasis of Jupiter Ammon" When it's published today (and it's still in print) it's generally under the title "Belzoni's Travels" . |
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10-14-2015, 06:35 AM | #3 |
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I guess it isn't so much long titles I object to. It is all the "tags" and "series" and "episodes" that get tacked on that annoy me.
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Single-word generic titles are my peeve. "Shattered" or "Chosen" or "Dust" or "Fallen" ... just don't.
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Recycling the title from another book/play/movie.
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I think the OP doesn't like the keyword stuffers. Actually on those it tells me those are usually copy and paste scamlets. The longest one I found was a cookbook. It may have been for slow cookers. It had (slow cooker) 7 times and (crockpot) 5 times.
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That was for those who might be easily confuse it with a Bar-B-Q cookbook |
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In all seriousness, I hate trying to come up with a title. (And, I'm just not very good at it.)
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