My mother sent me a link to a bbc news story about strange book titles with this note:
h, if you decide to write a book, all you may need is a quirky title.
The top honors of the “odd title prize” went to The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, but I think the best of the top three is Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence. Of the previous years’ winners, Living with Crazy Buttocks is a personal favorite.
forget my recent endeavor to write a good article or book. apparently all i need to wow several thousand people is a weird title. i’ve got a few i’m working on, but if you want to contribute any, i’d love to hear them.
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Graceless // June 7, 2007 at 12:31 am
No, no, no. We mad readers skip the title and go straight to the first sentence test. Alas, I’ve been swindled by books with a great first sentence and nothing else remotely interesting.