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What is the best book title ever?

>> No.3915724

I think Atlas Shrugged is a really great title, despite the actual book being naff.

>> No.3915728

your face by op is a faggot

>> No.3915730

>>3915724
now say it in ayn rand's voice

>> No.3915746

Epic Win For Anonymous

>> No.3915772

Dharma Bums is a pretty cool title, I think.

>> No.3915790

Pale Fire is one of my favorites.

>> No.3915810

I always thought Hemingway had really cool titles: For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Farewell to Arms etc.

>> No.3915817

>>3915810
>titles appropriated from previous works
>good

>> No.3915828

Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.3915832

Some Shakespeare quote.

>> No.3915835

Infinite Jest

>> No.3915844

>>3915832
>>3915835
lel

>> No.3915860

Steal this book

xD

>> No.3915864

>>3915835
agree

>> No.3915890

>>3915832
Well, Faulkner certainly used it.

Also, some profound line from good poetry can be quite handy and nice. Too bad I can never dig poetry if it's not an epic.

>> No.3915908

The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion

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3915930

I love the swedish translation of In Search of Lost Time; På spaning efter den tid som flytt.
The title has more of a feeling of longing, and the time isn't just lost, it has escaped.

>> No.3916053

The Sound and the Fury, goddamn does that sound fantastic.

I have a major hard-on for Shakespeare and Bible quotes anyway. All the other titles are either just characters from the book (Candide, Lolita, The Brothers Karamazov) or an event from the story (The Metamorphosis, The Trial)

>> No.3916104

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Not only is it clever, it also immediately tells you a little about the tone, setting and idea's in the book. It does everything a title should.

I hate fantasy titles. It's always just the name of some event, object, character or location from within the setting.
>The Valley of Time
>Blade of Wind
>The Song of Golden Tears
That sort of thing. It's incredibly unimaginative and uninviting. Even worse is when they just use a random fantasy word.

>> No.3916125

>>3916104
>Lord of the Rings

Fuck you.

>> No.3916127

>>3916053
Not 2666 u bitch

>> No.3916139

Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004 The Joy of Cooking

i'm reading it right now too & it's so good

>> No.3916148

Always thought Sense and Sensibility was clever, even if I've never been arsed to read it.

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3916153

The Sun Also Rises

>> No.3916154

>>3916053