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>character says the book's title

>> No.22219289

>title is eloquently alluded to, but never actually mentioned
YES

>title is just a location
NO

>> No.22219345

Just watched Jim Jarmusch's first movie called Permanent Vacation. The last line is
>Let's just say I'm a certain kind of tourist... A tourist that's on a... permanent vacation.

>> No.22219352

>>22219282
Literally me when Pip said great expectations.

>> No.22219355

>>22219289
An example of each?

>> No.22219357
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>>22219282
>title is a clever phrase which blends both a location name and a theme of the story together
GIGAKINO

>> No.22219362

>PEAL YOUR EYES, MEN, FOR MOBY DICK, OR, THE WHITE WHALE!

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>>22219282
Climactic chapter has the same title as the whole work.

BEST THING EVER

>> No.22219365

>>22219362
>PEEL BACK YOUR FORESKIN, MEN

>> No.22219377

>>22219357
Lies in Red Leaves is the great and it's a shame it's not on Amazon yet.

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>fictional author doesn't understand the title but shoehorns it in anyway

>> No.22219393

>>22219355
Great titles:
The Lord of the Rings
The Man Without Qualities
In Search of Lost Time
Gravity's Rainbow

Terrible titles:
The Brothers Karamazov
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

>> No.22219400

>>22219282
I fucking hate this pepe so much. From the first time I saw it, I hated it. The shape of the mouth disgusts me.

>> No.22219402

>>22219393
what about "Call of Stephen King's Grandmother's Will" ?

>> No.22219421

>>22219282
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

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>>22219282
>"hi, my name is harry potter"

>> No.22219469

>>22219282
> it seems like i was The Idiot all along...

>> No.22219473

>>22219469
how did you get hold of my diary desu?

>> No.22219550

>heh... seems like this is the sound and the fury they were always talking about.
Dropped

>> No.22219564

>>22219393
The Brothers Karamazov is OK. There are lots a lot worse:

— The Zap Gun
PKD had several great titles. This was not one of them.

— Absalom, Absalom!
Worst title ever. (Faulkner really wasn't very good at titles.)

— As You Like It
Good play, boring generic title which could fit anything. (A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's only really great title.)

— Villette
Completely misleading because the place isn't anything to do with the book; it's just a backdrop. She had to call it something, I guess, and naming it after the heroine wouldn't have worked at all.

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>>22219451
>...and the philosopher's stone

>> No.22219569

>"And that's why you should always be Earnest"
greatest ending line ever

>> No.22219586

>>22219564
>A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's only really great title.
You forgot about "A Most pleasant and excellent conceited Comedy, of Sir John Falstaffe, and the merry Wives of Windsor. With the swaggering vaine of Ancient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym."

>> No.22219590

"The C Programming Language"

>> No.22219598

>>22219564
>Faulkner wasn’t very good at titles
The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and some of his short stories like A Rose for Emily, have great iconic titles

>> No.22219603

>>22219282
And just like that, the portrait of Dorian Gray!

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>after all this time... it turns out YOU were John Gravity's Rainbow all along..
DFW was a fucking hack

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22219627

>And then I, the author of this book, Moses, died. Here is what happened in the one thousand years after that.

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>>22219627
There's a really good bit in the Talmud where the angels on Mount Sinai don't think humanity should have the Torah but Moses epically owns them by pointing out that the Torah is about him

>> No.22219704

>>22219282
>we even had a nigger on board. The Nigger of the Narcissus, as we liked to call him...

>> No.22219740

>>22219598
I agree The Sound and the Fury is a good phrase and As I Lay Dying is a great phrase. I just don't think they quite fit the books. The comment in Macbeth is basically nihilistic, saying that life is meaningless. But Faulkner's novel isn't like that at all. It's saying that the waste of Caddy's life is a tragedy. And "As I Lay Dying" suggests that Addie is the main character, and that her dying will be more of the book, instead of just the first couple of pages. Maybe he's being subtler than I give him credit for, but they don't feel unmistakably "right" to me, the way some titles do. (He did originally call TSatF "Twilight", and only changed it near publication, for what that's worth.)

>> No.22219741

>>22219393
I was talking about titledropping

>> No.22219792

>>22219740
It’s probably easier to choose a title that fits the book than an iconic phrase/title. Faulkner hit it out of the park a few times and deserves props for that

>> No.22219873

>>22219664
The Talmud should be burned along with all its practitioners.

>> No.22219971

>>22219873
Why?

>> No.22219986

>>22219282
>"The real Blood Meridian were the friends we made along the way."

>> No.22220005

>"And that gentlemen... is how you Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul"
That part hit deep.

>> No.22220016

>>22219971
Gas bills going up, need warmth somehow."

>> No.22220072

I'm going to do this with my book, but it is going to end with one of the main characters reading it from the book itself. When he opens it, it's going to have a snippet of the first chapter from the first volume.

>> No.22220086

>When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die

>> No.22220088

>anonymous posts the frog

>> No.22220120

>"And that's just the way the Screw Turns , baby" - Henry James

>> No.22220216

>>22219282
>"It was me all along, Ralph, I was The Lord Of The Flies!"

>> No.22220247

>>22219282
Here's a double one:
>"One little nigger boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

>> No.22220256

>>22219282
>And Christ said, behold, my New Testament

>> No.22220258

>character moans out the title during an anal rape

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22220267

>character says "wow, this is crazy, someone should write a book about this"

>> No.22220268

>>22219282
>hi, my name is Saint Augustine, and these are my Confessions

>> No.22220279

>>22220258
"how many stds will I catch?"
"you'll catch 22"

>> No.22220289

>>22220279
lmao

>> No.22220557

>"Final words? Yes, I have a few... We are the Seven Hunters and today we fulfill our destiny!"

>> No.22220586

>>22219598
That's because he straight up copies them from poems.

>> No.22220590

>>22220258
>"And everything is because of that Prince of Nothing!"

>> No.22220798

>>22219393
In Search of Lost Time and A Portrait of The Artist are the best titles from this post.

>> No.22220809

>>22219282
The best title of all time:

The Iceman Cometh