Clive Barker: In the Hills, the Cities
Cormac McCarthy: Cities of the Plain

"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman.

Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age: Or a young lady's illustrated primer

Edwina Gateley, "A Warm Moist Salty God." This and "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" are what gave me the idea for a title thread.

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times it Just Makes Sense

Maya Angelou - I know why the caged bird sings
Mary Roach - Stiff
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Pat Cadigan - Dervish is Digital
Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are
Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone
James Frey - A Million Little Pieces
Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
Ursula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Shel Silverstein - Where the Sidewalk Ends

and the cd that sticks in my head always for a giggle is Fungus Amongus by Incubus *heh*

"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World"-- Harlon Ellison story, also used for a Neon Genesis Evangelion ep

since i don't feel like starting a new thread: some movie titles that the TV station i work for has shown:

At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul! and the sequel, known in English by the following names:

This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)
This Night Will Make Your Corpse Incarnate (1967)
Tonight I Will Eat Your Corpse (1967)
Tonight I Will Enter Your Corpse (1967)
Tonight I Will Make Your Corpse Turn Red (1967)
Tonight I Will Paint in Flesh Colour (1967)


Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going

Watterson, Scientific Progress Goes Boink
Scott Adams, Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy

Fixer Chao by Han Ong.

don't ask me why. i just love the way that title sounds.

"Church of the Motherfucker," an article from another great title, You Are Being Lied To: Disinformation

I just mentions how much I love the wierdness of Murakami's books and right after posting over there I notice this thread, how serendipitous!! So I'll post some of my favorite Murakamis titles here as well

My favorite title although not ny favorite book is: hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world

Also very good titles: wild ship chase, Wind-up bird chronicles, Sputnik sweetheart, South of the border west of the sun

I love Charles Bukowski's title too my favorites are: 'tales of ordinary madness' and 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man', also funny 'South of No North' and 'Ham on rye' and just found on amazon: 'Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit', 'The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship'

I also like a some of his italian-translated titles that to me sound more bukowskian that than the original english ones: like 'music for hot organs' (in english 'hot water music', ), 'What Matters Most Is to scratch my arm-pits' (interview with an italian jurnalist, don't know if there's any english translation of it), or 'shakespeare has never done it' (can't find the original english title)

Other of very good titles:
philip dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'
Alessandro baricco's 'ocean-see'
or milan kundera's 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'

And that's it ... for the moment

"And the Jury of Howler Monkeys Unanimously Votes Yes."

Just made that up, coudn't get it out of my head.

Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Toni Morrison, These Bones Are Not My Child

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Henry James, 'Turn of the Screw'

michael marshall smith..
'Only Forward'

as in the phrase 'you can't go back, only forward'.

i just think it says everything you need to know about the book.

"So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" by Douglas Adams

Jim Crace, The Slow Digestion of the Night
Tim Powers, The Stress of Her Regard

quote:

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Originally posted by fluffyllama:
i saw this book in the library when i was a kid:

My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is silent.

title's always stuck in my head. though i never read it for some reason. probably didn't have enough magic or robots in it.

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I READ that when I was younger. I don't remember much about it except the title. I think it was a standard high school angsty sort of thing, except the girl dealt with her problems by adding a random 5 to her name to make herself more unique.

I second "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" as well as "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius".

I'm trying to think of books and just blanking. Sad

A walk to my bookshelf and back has given me "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White I haven't actually read this yet but I think it's a great title. It has such a nice flow.

"The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket" is good too.

William Gibson, The Log of the Mustang Sally