Galactus Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 So, what's the favourite title of a book/story etc.? Ignoring the contents, but just going on how awesome/funny/interesting the title is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyoshi Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactus Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 Mine is Den allvarsamme leken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? fucking brilliant. ETA: answered before I even saw Kyoshi's comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liffguard Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 I tend to prefer my titles short and punchy. Use of WeaponsWoken FuriesA Fire Upon the DeepThe Thousandfold ThoughtEnder's Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 ''The Company of Wolves'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 another vote for the thousandfold thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentRoamer Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 I always liked A Fire Upon the Deep and A Mote in Gods Eye The Thousandfold Thought deserves another vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Dancers at the End of TimeThe Pillars of Creation (no, I haven't read the book) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatúrinbor Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 The Player of GamesThe Thousandfold ThoughtThe Crippled GodThe Darkness That Comes BeforeThe Shadow of the Torturer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toblakai Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Not sure if my favorites but I like Abercrombie's titles, such as Before They Are Hanged and Best Served Cold. Even something as simple as The Heroes because it is hard to tell if that is serious or sarcastic; maybe just cynical and realistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 "Im Westen nichts Neues" by Remarque. Unfortunately the title loses much of its ambiguity, brevity and conciseness in the translation "All Quiet on the Western Front" (literally it would be "No news (or nothing new) in/from the West"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 am changing my vote to Cromwell's bloody slaughter-house, or, his damnable designes laid and practiced by him and his negros, in contriving the murther of His sacred Majesty King Charles I, discovered. that's often shortened to cromwell's bloody slaughterhouse discovered, 'course. it's kinda the 'black book of communism' for the triumphalists of the english restoration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming (Zelazny and Sheckley).The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (Rankin)Dance of the Voodoo Handbag (Rankin)A Dark and Hungry God Arises (Donaldson) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgambino Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 The Right to Arm Bears - Gordon R. DicksonRico Slade will Fucking Kill You - Bradley Sands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Vonnegut is also quite good with pithy titles like "Slaughterhouse Five" (which is just an address), although "Cat's Cradle" could/should have been "Ice Nine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reckoner Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Toll the HoundsReaper's GaleBlood: A Southern FantasyThe GunslingerThe Cold Commands I don't see a pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj4iy Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 So, this will take a bit of explanation: 吾輩は猫である (Wagahai wa Neko de aru) "I am a Cat" by Natsume Souseki I love the title of this book because of the way it's written. It translates to 'I am a Cat', but the way it is written has a very self-important and condescending tone to it, putting the speaker above his company, which fits the point of the book perfectly. The speaker in the book is an actual cat who sits around all day watching humans (and then makes fun of them for being lazy). It's purposely ironic that the cat looks down on the humans for the things they do while the cat does the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howdyphillip Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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