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Which author has the best book titles? Pic related; The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, For Whom The Bell Tolls, etc.

>> No.3822881

Hemingway and Steinbeck have always struck me as having creative titles

>> No.3822885

>>3820648
>>3822881
>I'm a fat American and I have read 13 books

>> No.3822889 [DELETED] 

Fucking Tao Lin man, idk about what's inside the actual books, but he makes captivating titles

>> No.3822890

>>3822885

Those are legitimate answers. Why are you so butthurt they are all American authors?

>> No.3822910

>>3822890
>b-b-but that's what we d-do r-right guys?!

>> No.3822916

>>3822885
>>3822910

i haven't been to /lit/ in a while. is this normal now?

cuz this guy seems like a real dick.

>> No.3822918

>>3822885
Name a few of your own, you dumb fuck

Otherwise, shut up

>> No.3822921

>>3822916
Not normal. That guy is a troll.

>> No.3822923

Alan Dean Foster

>> No.3822932

>>3822916
>>3822921
>Samefag accusing others of samefaggotry

>> No.3822944

I hate Hemingway's titles, uninteresting and bland, totally literal though hidden behind a layer or two of indulgent poetic flair. Not as bad as quotations-- poetry and Shakespeare. Though the Pale Fire gets a pass for its self-awareness.

Titles you stumble on and roll around your head are the best, imo, like Ancient Evenings (I swear Mailer wanted you constantly mix up Evenings and Egypt), Cities of the Red Night, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Or things that evoke large images and concepts, that include the mythologies formed around the work itself along with the title's source, that you are too vague and slippery to ever really pin down: Ulysses, Vita Sexualis, Pan, hell even Proust as an author. Aguirre: The Wrath of God

And then there's the ones that you hear bounced around but haven't gotten around to checking out but the name sticks with you, because it's totally incomprehensible, and you read a summary or a review or the back of the book and you still can't get a grasp on what it's about, and you finally read the book, and when you finish you realize the title's only just a little less impenetrable: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Earthly Powers, The Incal

>> No.3822946

bump

>> No.3822964

Gabriel García Marquéz

>> No.3822986

>>3822964
Márquez*

>> No.3822988

David Foster Wallace, not even trolling. Infinite Jest is whatever, Shakespeare quote-titles are a rite of passage for authors I guess, but I really like The Pale King, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Everything and More, even his essays, as in E Unibus Pluram.

Zizek is also good at titling essays: Give Iranian Nukes a Chance, A Cyberspace Lenin: Why Not?, "NO SEX, PLEASE, WE'RE POST-HUMAN!", Laugh Yourself to Death: the new wave of Holocaust comedies! and so on and so on

>> No.3822994

[spoilers]Dave Eggers[/spoilers]

>> No.3823011

Flannnery O'Connnor has had some good ones: Everything That Rises Must Converge, Wise Blood, The Life You Save May Be Your Own.

>> No.3823030

nietzsche

/thread

>> No.3823561

>>3823030
Yeah dude I love "Thusly Spaketh Zarathrustersonmax".

/thread

(I heard ending /thread to your own post validates it and makes you cool.)

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3823568

please don't hate me....but Murakami's got some pretty good titles.

>> No.3823594

>>3823568
Yeah naming a book after a very popular Beatles song is profound as fuck.

Also, Kafka on the Shore. Damn son. Here I was thinking Kafka would be in bed wondering why he's an insect - never suspected that he would be out on the shore.

>> No.3823602

Best book titles:
The Prince
Crime & Punishment
The Idiot

>> No.3823620

>>3820648
Indubitably Dav Pilkey has some of the best titles in the last centuries. The works themselves are mediocre but the titles are on a whole other level.

>> No.3823649

Too bad AFTA is so fucking boring.

Is Sun Also Rises any better? I don't want to be completely put off from hemmingway due to one book but goddamn I can't stand Farewell to Arms

>> No.3823650

Shawn Wunjo.

/thread

>> No.3823661

>>3823649
I thought AFTA was his least good and Sun Also Rises probably his best, so you could try it out.

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3823712

>>3823620
I lol'd

>> No.3823725

>>3823649
I think The Sun Also Rises is one of the most boring books I've ever read. I remember enjoying A Farewells to Arms but I read it in highschool and don't remember much of it.

>> No.3823746
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>>3822964
>>3822986

>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Autumn of the Patriarch
>Chronicle of a Death Foretold
>Big Mama's Funeral
>No One Writes To The Colonel
>Love in the Time of Cholera
>The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Souless Grandmother

Such luscious titles, Gabriel

>> No.3823777

>>3820648
I'd say Paul West:

The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg
Lord Byron's Doctor
Life With Swan
Rat Man of Paris
Bela Lugosi's White Christmas

>> No.3823801

>>3823649
Read For Whom The Bell Tolls or The Old Man And The Sea. If you thought AFTA was boring (how? All those feels...) then you'll find The Sun Also Rises boring as well.