Me Talk Pretty One Day.


I think that was the name of it.

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Originally posted by Eldi:
Me Talk Pretty One Day.


I think that was the name of it.

It's "Me Talk Real Pretty One Day," but that just makes the name prettier.

yeah, thats it.

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Originally posted by Aldarion:
I'm trying to remember here (and I'm probably remembering wrong), but didn't Kinky Friedman take the title of one of his songs, "The Asshole from El Paso" and turn it into a book title?

Even if he didn't that was a very catchy song title
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Unfortunately I can't remember any books with a title like that.
A Case Of Lone Star
Greenwich Killing Time
When The Cat's Away
Frequent Flyer
Musical Chairs
Elvis, Jesus And Coca-Cola
Armadillos & Old Lace
God Bless John Wayne
The Love Song Of J. Edgar Hoover
Roadkill
Blast From The Past
Spanking Watson
The Mile High Club
Steppin' On A Rainbow
Meanwhile Back At The Ranch
Kinky Friedman's Guide To Texas Etiquette, Or How To Get To Heaven Or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth

Eat, Drink And Be Kinky by Mike McGovern

Christopher Moore has some great titles:
Bloodsucking Fiends
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
Fluke, or I Know Why The Winged Whale Sings
The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Terry Pratchett and crime-caper novelist Carl Hiassen tie to win the "short but zappy" category, IMO:

Equal Rites (Pratchett)
Soul Music (Pratchett)
The Fifth Elephant (Pratchett)

Sick Puppy (Hiassen)
Native Tongue (Hiassen)
Skinny Dip (Hiassen)

- Cho

robert rankin's "the hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse"

Jasper Fforde's "The big over easy"

Recently discovered Jonathan Lethem:

Motherless Brooklyn
Gun, With Occasional Music
As She Climbed Across the Table

Don't have any of these yet, but soon.

All good books Zoneseek. The only one I've read that I didn't like was Fortress of Solitude. I think you'll really dig Lethem's style. And he's always got good titles.

Titles I like:
Everybody Smokes in Hell (John Ridley, never read it, and can't say for sure why not with a title like that)
Get Shorty (Elmore Leonard)
American Tabloid (James Ellroy)
Heaven's Prisoners (James Lee Burke)

Hmmmm, I guess I like crime/noir titles a lot. Lemme try some from other genres...

Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill (Steven Brust...good title, so-so book)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Werewolves in Their Youth (Michael Chabon)
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (CS Lewis)

Tim Powers, The Stress of Her Regard. Stressful indeed. Nice.

Oh, and I should mention:

The Last Hot Time
and
How Much For Just the Planet? by John M. Ford

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Originally posted by Seccotine:
Jasper Fforde's "The big over easy"

Reading it at the moment.

Ballad Of The Whiskey Robber: A True Story Of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, And Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein

Rupert Thompson's 'dreams of leaving'

Naked in Baghdad (Anne Garrells)

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Originally posted by Flinx:

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Originally posted by Seccotine:
Jasper Fforde's "The big over easy"

Reading it at the moment.

Isn't it great ? I still prefer the Thursday Next series, but I had great fun reading this one. By the way, the sequel was released 2 weeks ago. It's called "The fourth bear".

Which reminds me that when I first saw the topic title, I immediatly wanted to post "The fifth elephant", but Chomiji bet me at it !

Two I haven't read yet, but want to, based mostly on their titles:

"A Fool and his Honey" by Charlaine Harris
"Fat White Vampire Blues" by Andrew Fox

Picked up a book in England during one of my trips based solely on the title:

Dead Cat Bounce by Damien Owens

I'm also a fan of Tony Hawk's books:
Round Ireland with a Fridge
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
One Hit Wonderland

And lastly, Are You Dave Gorman? and Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure by Dave Gorman

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Originally posted by Seccotine:

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Originally posted by Flinx:

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Originally posted by Seccotine:
Jasper Fforde's "The big over easy"

Reading it at the moment.

Isn't it great ? I still prefer the Thursday Next series, but I had great fun reading this one. By the way, the sequel was released 2 weeks ago. It's called "The fourth bear".

At present I also prefer the Thursday Next series. But as this is based on one NCD book compared to the four Next books, I'll wait until I've read more NCD as they come out. "The Big Over Easy" was a good read. I liked that you could recognise that it was a sequel to the Next series being based on the Cavendish Heights story.
Was slightly disappointed with the ending to "Something Rotten".

I've just finished The Fourth Bear, I think it's even better than The Big Over Easy. Quite crazier. I'm becoming addicted to the Nursery Crime Division just like I already was to the Thursday Next series.

And to get back into the main topic, next opus of the Thursday Next series (out July 2007) will be called The War of the Words