Comments | cissie_king: Great Titles. (Unlike the title of this post of course)

cissie_king

Great Titles. (Unlike the title of this post of course)

Apr 02, 2008 21:47

seriousfic wrote a post the other day about titles. This is the post, by the way. Now, the post is more focused on titles for fanfics, but it did remind me of something I like to think about and wanted to discuss here: AWESOME TITLES ( Read more... )

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glemsydoodles April 3 2008, 04:03:55 UTC

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maggiebloome April 3 2008, 13:28:27 UTC

Is there some bizarre recombination of Doctor Who and Lost going on there?

cissie_king April 3 2008, 16:56:12 UTC

I own that book, but I haven't read it yet. I like the title, but it only makes sense if you know the "Island of Doctor Death" type of titles that plague crappy pulp.

setzerg April 3 2008, 05:02:21 UTC

I gotta go with Blue Beetle #16 in the new series:

"Total Eclipso: The Heart"

philippos42 April 3 2008, 05:13:40 UTC

Well, that's a reference to a song which actually has a trippy cool title.

cissie_king April 3 2008, 17:08:31 UTC

I kinda like it, despite that I hate pun titles 99.9999999999% of times.

philippos42 April 3 2008, 05:13:08 UTC

Second all the Harlan Ellison choices.

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is a pretty good title. I'm not huge on Philip K. Dick, but it's a neat title. The alternate title of Michael Bishop's novel The Secret Ascension is, "Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas."

James Tiptree, Jr. had a creepy little story called, "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death", the title of which which works pretty well.

Robert Sheckley's, "Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?" is a good title for its story. Not immediately impressive, but having read the story, I think it's perfect. (And that story has interesting use of language in general.)

cissie_king April 3 2008, 17:03:00 UTC

> "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death",

Now that's awesome.

stinglikeabee April 3 2008, 07:40:30 UTC

Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' is a great one, and I was kinda disappointed it wasn't about the occult.

Thomas Hardy irritates the hell out of me, but I like how 'Jude the Obscure' rolls off the tongue quite nicely.

And the pulp fiction novels always have some cracking titles: 'The Devil's Mistress', 'Farewell My Lovely'. I'm a sucker for those because they sell the mood so well.

maggiebloome April 3 2008, 13:26:25 UTC

The Body Electric would be a cool name for a band ( ... )

cissie_king April 3 2008, 17:06:30 UTC

I don't hate lenghty titles, although the longer it gets the clunkier it can get.

maggiebloome April 3 2008, 23:52:29 UTC

No, see, they're strangely attractive but then you have to type them out all the time and you get exasperated with all the capitals :P