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Anonymous Mon May 13 22:46:04 2013 No.3755829 [Reply] [Original]

What's the coolest title to a book you can think of? Ignore the content of the book, take only the title. I've always thought East of Eden and Atlus Shrugged sounded really impressive.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 22:48:03 2013 No.3755839 Gravity's Rainbow Tropic of Cancer The Power and the Glory The Sound and the Fury In Search of Lost Time

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 22:49:03 2013 No.3755847 The Divine Comedy

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 22:51:03 2013 No.3755855 Les Fleurs du mal

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 22:54:03 2013 No.3755863 Sartor Resartus - silly title but it's Latin so it sounds cool

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 22:58:03 2013 No.3755872 >>3755847 Yeah but Dante's original title, just 'The Comedy' , leaves a larger impression. IMO

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 22:58:03 2013 No.3755874 >>3755855 Always sounded to me like a high schooler trying to write high fantasy. Terrible title. Great content, though.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:03:04 2013 No.3755883 The Man Without Qualities - maybe it's not 'cool' but I've always liked it, even without having read the book

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:04:04 2013 No.3755886 >>3755829 Atlas Shrugged is a really good title. The Sound and the Fury wins best title of all time, imo.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:04:04 2013 No.3755888 The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You I love long-ass titles. It seems like they were really in vogue in the 70s for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:05:04 2013 No.3755889 File: 22 KB, 300x400, Huxley.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] does The Doors of Perception count?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:05:04 2013 No.3755890 >>3755872 Maybe, but not if you strip the title of all that it refers to, IMO.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:06:04 2013 No.3755892 >>3755886 >>3755839 Well, obviously titles taken directly from Shakespeare are going to be the best.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:07:03 2013 No.3755896 One Hundred Years of Solitude

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:11:03 2013 No.3755905 On a Pale Horse always thought that was a mysterious title. also Gormenghast, just a badass name.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:13:04 2013 No.3755910 The Pale King The Stranger The Art of War A Thief in the Night A Farewell to Arms A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The White Luck Warrior

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:18:03 2013 No.3755921 Book of the New Sun sounds like somekind of awesome mystical tome

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:19:03 2013 No.3755926 Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:20:03 2013 No.3755929 'The Recognitions' I like a lot

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:22:03 2013 No.3755934 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:33:03 2013 No.3755965 The Happy Hooker worked for me.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:35:03 2013 No.3755976 King Solomon's Mines

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:36:03 2013 No.3755978 Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:41:03 2013 No.3755989 Being and Nothingness

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:42:03 2013 No.3755993 Nietzsche's Lover/Love

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:46:03 2013 No.3756006 House of Butterflies Pornographic Salesman Lolita's Return Eternity's Light Black Eyed Angel Little Boy Lost The Last Starlet

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 23:56:03 2013 No.3756041 The Sun Also Rises Leaves of Grass

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:20:03 2013 No.3756100 on murder (considered as a fine art)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:21:03 2013 No.3756103 >>3756100 one of the fine arts* ashamed

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:22:03 2013 No.3756104 The Phenomenology of Spirit

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:25:03 2013 No.3756115 Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:25:04 2013 No.3756114 File: 70 KB, 300x414, ringandeye.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3755829 I've always thought The Lord of the Rings was a pretty awesome title. I like it when a story is named after the principle antagonist.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:27:04 2013 No.3756119 >>3756100 >>3756103 wtf?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:29:04 2013 No.3756125 Sexual Chocolate: The Novel

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:29:04 2013 No.3756124 A Confederacy of Dunces Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Notes From the Underground The Pale King Inherent Vice

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:37:03 2013 No.3756145 the book is god awful, but i've always been fond of atlas shrugged

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:43:03 2013 No.3756159 Sleep It Off, Lady Good Morning, Midnight Half of a Yellow Sun Speak, Memory Stand on Zanzibar

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 00:47:04 2013 No.3756180 The Forever War

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 01:16:03 2013 No.3756245 The Sirens of Titan The Tempest Infinite Jest Either/Or 100 Years of Solitude

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 01:37:03 2013 No.3756273 Love in the Time of Cholera The Fault in Our Stars Sirens of Titan

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 01:39:04 2013 No.3756277 Chronicle of a Death Foretold

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 01:40:04 2013 No.3756278 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: A Secret Gay Romance

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 01:51:03 2013 No.3756292 Ecce Homo: Why Am I a Destiny

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 02:06:03 2013 No.3756312 File: 8 KB, 849x748, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3756292 actually all of those titles are great

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 02:08:03 2013 No.3756317 Sex in Nazi Germany

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 02:10:03 2013 No.3756320 Lets see, off the top of my head: 100 Years of Solitude South of the Border, West of the Sun. The Man who was a Thursday.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 02:12:03 2013 No.3756324 >>3756245 Danefag here - Either/Or sounds much sexier in english than it does in its original Danish.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 02:13:03 2013 No.3756326 Sound and the fury

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 02:18:03 2013 No.3756331 If on a winter's night a traveler

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 02:19:03 2013 No.3756334 The Archaeology of Knowledge The Origin of Species Enten ‒ Eller The Birth of Tragedy

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 02:37:03 2013 No.3756360 My favorite book title has always been 'Things Fall Apart'.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 02:47:04 2013 No.3756375 Paradise Lost Desolation Angels Mostly Harmless The Dharma Bums Kafka on the Shore

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 03:03:03 2013 No.3756396 >>3756360 that's from Keats :X

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 03:08:03 2013 No.3756405 Tender is the Night >>3756104 Mistranslation; it's actually "The Phenomenology of Ghosts" Hegel wrote it to scare his niece off doing philosophy

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 03:10:03 2013 No.3756411 >>3756396 yeats

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 03:20:03 2013 No.3756425 Twilight of the Idols Leaves of Grass The Unbearable Lightness of Being Where the Wild Things Are Fear and Trembling The Niche of Lights

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 03:22:04 2013 No.3756427 >>3755829 Anthem

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 03:25:03 2013 No.3756429 >>3756425 We the Living

>>	fuck Anonymous Tue May 14 03:45:03 2013 No.3756455 Timeout for Turkey

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 03:46:03 2013 No.3756457 Paradise Lost tops it for me. Honorable mentions: I have no mouth and I must scream, the Silence of the Lambs, Lord of the Flies

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 05:10:03 2013 No.3756563 As I Lie Dying The Agony and the Ecstacy Knitting With Dog Hair Captain Underpants Everybody Farts

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 05:11:03 2013 No.3756565 Genesis Revelations Both are titles that simply resonate with me

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 05:58:31 2013 No.3756607 The unbearable lightness of being

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 06:17:32 2013 No.3756628 Two by the same author: This Day All Gods Die Against All Things Ending

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 06:22:32 2013 No.3756635 "The Pale King" is excellent. "And You Die so Slowly That You Think You are Living" seems a bit unoriginal, but I still like it. "The Painted Man" is a nice title, even though the book wasn't that great. "Confessions of a Mask" is bloody excellent.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 06:29:31 2013 No.3756643 >>3756396 >>3756411 Are you suggesting this makes it somehow less worthy? I think many great book titles come from other works. e.g. 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' (from the same poem in fact) and 'The Sound and the Fury'

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 06:34:32 2013 No.3756653 I have no mouth and I must scream No longer human Bought them for the title alone The sun also rises is also cool.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 07:27:31 2013 No.3756734 When you are engulfed in flames I've always loved that title.

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