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The "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" post made me think of other great titles. What are some of your favorite book or story titles? Here are some of mine: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime Neverwhere Which Lie Did I Tell? Kiss Me Like a Stranger |
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The Semi-Attached Couple (by Emily Eden), especially when it is in the same volume as The Semi-Detached House (both novellas) so the title of the book reads as The Semi-Attached Couple & The Semi-Detached House. |
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The Art of Racing in the Rain Schadenfreude, Baby! Calico Palace Confederates in the Attic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
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It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It |
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Almost anything by James Tiptree, Jr., but especially: Brightness Falls From the Air, "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever," "The Man Doors Said Hello To," "And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways," "Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death," "A Momentary Taste of Being," and "With Delicate Mad Hands." The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester All the Windwracked Stars, by Elizabeth Bear One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Alphabet of Thorn and Ombria in Shadow, by Patricia McKillip Under the Sea-Wind, by Rachel Carson (not strictly a novel, I know, but I love it anyway *grin*) Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, by Samuel R. Delaney The Man Who Folded Himself, by David Gerrold I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, by Harlan Ellison Last Edited on: 7/19/10 10:52 PM ET - Total times edited: 3 |
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How To Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir Sounds like a book a cannibal would write. Yuck. |
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There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell Confessions of a Prairie Bitch Gone With the Wind Mistress of the Art of Death To Kill a Mockingbird Pride and Prejudice Bigfoot: I Not Dead Death by Supermarket Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper |
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Anything by Robert Rankin, but my favorites are Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse Nostradamus Ate My Hamster Fandom of the Operator |
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Wanda Hicky's Night of Golden Memories by Jean Shepard. |
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I love Alexander McCall Smith's book titles: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs In the Company of Cheerful Ladies Tea Time For The Traditionally Built The Good Husband of Zebra Drive Friends, Lovers, Chocolate The Full Cupboard of Life Blue Shoes and Happiness The Lost Art of Gratitude to name several |
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Last book I read simply based on the name is Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea I was looking for a book by an author with the same last name but this was the only book in my town library by "Handler" but the title was so intriguing that I had to get it It is one of the funniest books I have ever read |
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker You're So Vein |
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