Best book titles

[longers]

I like the sound of "The Geometry of Pasta".

 

[cyberknight]

Mona Lisa Overdrive

By William Gibson

 

[PBancroft]

I like to hunt down obscure titles in charity shops whose authors probably aren't too proud about ever being printed. An early publication I found of a young Richard Dawkins is 'The Tooth Fairy Deception' in which he ceremoniously smashes the myth beyond any logical doubt of the existence of tooth fairies . He doesn't go on to offer an explanation for where the money actually comes from but it's definitely not fairies he says.

I wanted that to be real so much I Googled it.

 

[taxing]

Seen this? I think it's funny.

 

[Paulus]

Knees up mother earth, and, The Brentford Chainstor massacre, and
Sex and drugs and sausage rolls, all by Robert Rankin.

 

[asterix]

"Let sleeping vets lie" - as found on my dad's book shelf.

Given you forum name that's very appropriate. Or maybe it's the other way round.

 

[Dayvo]

Not a book, but there's a Swedish film called F u c k ing Åmål!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Not a book, but there's a Swedish film called F u c k ing Åmål!

But shown in the UK as 'Show Me Love'...

 

[User169]

My daughters's have a book entitled "Everyone poos". There is an entire poo genre within the toddler oeuvre.

 

[longers]

This sounds interesting: Violence and the Medieval Clergy. Available from late April.

 

[Piemaster]

How to avoid huge ships
A book I've been trying to get hold of for the deck officers on the ship I work on. They need all the help they can get.

Some of the Amazon reviews are worth reading.

 

[slowmotion]

How to avoid huge ships
A book I've been trying to get hold of for the deck officers on the ship I work on. They need all the help they can get.

Some of the Amazon reviews are worth reading.

Magic!

 

[Aperitif]

Tom Wolfe, one of my 'interests', was responsible for 'The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamlined Baby' - there were one or two others but this title has 'stuck'. From 'Bauhaus to our House' is neat too. In contrast, his fantasy stuff ie: fiction, is very ordinary; 'Bonfire of the Vanities' for example.






Edit: Bauhaus was non-u

 

[PBancroft]

My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell

Great title, speaks volumes about the book itself when you know the subject matter, and an astonishingly good book as well for its time. Sadly out of print, but if you can get your hands on a copy, read it.

 

[slowmotion]