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Though you can't judge a book by its cover; what are some of your favorite book titles?

My favorite is "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy.
 
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Prospero's Children-it wasn't an excellent book, but the title caught my attention

Bag of Bones by Stephen King-He usually has pretty good titles, and I think this one of them
 
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Wow, I could go on for days with this thread, but I'll stick to the few that I came up with immediately.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart - Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami

The Crazed - Ha Jin

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins

If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino

I love all these books. And as I think throughout the day, I'm sure I will add more.
 
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I knew I would think of more as the day went along. A few more:

No One Writes to the Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Floating Opera - John Barth

Giles Goat-Boy - Barth

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre

Stay tuned for more...
 
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

I Married A Communist - Philip Roth
 
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"Civilwarland in Bad Decline" by George Saunders

"Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" by ZZ Packer

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcie Marquez

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcie Marquez

"Memories of My Father Watching TV" by Curtis White

"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace

"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace

"Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace

"The Sot-Weed Factor" by John Barth

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis" by David Eggers

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver
 
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Originally posted by Ryan Nyburg:
"Civilwarland in Bad Decline" by George Saunders

"Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" by ZZ Packer

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcie Marquez

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcie Marquez

"Memories of My Father Watching TV" by Curtis White

"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace

"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace

"Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace

"The Sot-Weed Factor" by John Barth

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis" by David Eggers

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver


The Saunders and Carver titles are great. I read Pastoralia not too long ago. He has a new one that I have not read, but has a great title, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. I frequently revisit Carver.
 
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How about the one, the only, "Harmonium," by Wallace Stevens.
 
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I'll add a few more.

"Bury My Heart At My Wounded Knee" - Dee Brown

"Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" - Jon Krakauer
 
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Following Nathan's non-fiction titles, I add one of my favorites:

Where White Mean Fear to Tread - Russell Means
 
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A Confederate General At Big Sur, Trout Fishing In America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster and In Watermelon Sugar (among other titles) from the late great Richard Brautigan.
 
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
 
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20,000 Leagues under the Sea, for its dreamy, alien promise.


'for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.'
 
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Originally posted by crazed:
A Confederate General At Big Sur, Trout Fishing In America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster and In Watermelon Sugar (among other titles) from the late great Richard Brautigan.


YES! Major ditto!
Dumbhead offed himself. Phooey.


"give me ambiguity or give me something else."
 
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The Zombie Survival Guide!


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Go Liminal State Bobcats!
 
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We all died at Breakaway Station

S/F tale; author's name escapes me. Smiler


'for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.'
 
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There needs to be a favorite song titles thread...I have some ideas Big Grin


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You could never be a politician sin. You keep your promises. Wink


'for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.'
 
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I wouldn't dream of it. I'm interested in law...although lawyers don't really make promises...but! that wasn't technically a promise. In law that would be known as voce in animo volvens, "wondering out loud". So all I did was fulfill my musing, not a promise. How's that for a legal explanation? Big Grin


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All hail the new Cicero. May the Gods smile upon you consul Imperium. Smiler


'for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.'
 
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