tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876767643869305059.post7258552166748529504..comments2023-09-03T09:37:28.458+01:00Comments on CONNECTING: Best Book Title or Short Story title?BRIDGEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16143306274478695558noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876767643869305059.post-64210524133733302762011-03-07T03:39:29.498+00:002011-03-07T03:39:29.498+00:00and thanks to you for reading my blog and commenti...and thanks to you for reading my blog and commenting. I look forward to them.<br /><br />some faves: Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers Houses in New England [also a brilliant fictional 1st person narrator]. melissa bank's A Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing. old brian moore novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne [sp? not my forte].<br /><br />I can't think of first lines till revision or I get paralyzed!JFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05163744586139509536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876767643869305059.post-40730034196809825042011-03-07T03:35:08.611+00:002011-03-07T03:35:08.611+00:00first, thanks for following me back and your comme...first, thanks for following me back and your comments. I look forward to them.<br /><br />my favorite title and a must read novel, American, brock Clark's *An Arsonist's Guide to Writers Houses in New England*. a masterful use of 1st person, not fully reliable but very human narrator. also loved *A girl's guide to hunting and fishing," melissa banks, labelled as Chiclit but very smart chicklit for sure. oh, and NUala OFaolain's My Dream of you. I'll stop now....! JFJFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05163744586139509536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876767643869305059.post-89936999459055153152011-03-05T09:59:21.821+00:002011-03-05T09:59:21.821+00:00Yes, I'm intrigued by titles that are rather o...Yes, I'm intrigued by titles that are rather obscure and I don't quite 'get' until I read more, but I think the key is that they still have to contain some kind of concrete image...something that allows my imagination to start working. The truly abstract can be very putdownable. I'm thinking of titles like<br />My inner loneliness <br />(made up - I hope) awful if serious and not tongue-in-cheek<br />Thank you for the recommendation as haven't read How the Light gets in but is a title that stays with you.BRIDGEThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16143306274478695558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876767643869305059.post-26268882589931671572011-03-04T17:52:33.980+00:002011-03-04T17:52:33.980+00:00I love the novel and the the novel title HOW THE L...I love the novel and the the novel title HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN by M.J. Hyland. I love it when a title is quite abstract and when the writer at some point in the novel refers very subtly to the title.Louise Halvardssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17038924529261834908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876767643869305059.post-11666558389736747242011-03-02T20:08:04.099+00:002011-03-02T20:08:04.099+00:00Yes for John Irving's novels...World according...Yes for John Irving's novels...World according to Garp....Hotel New Hampshire (which should be just a label but somehow isn't)...but especially Cider House Rules which matures as a title as the novel progresses... Never really got Philip K. Dick I suppose because he wrote ideas fiction and in the end I prefer character fiction but you're right, he was king of title making...BRIDGEThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16143306274478695558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3876767643869305059.post-39005047494632845222011-03-02T12:13:00.997+00:002011-03-02T12:13:00.997+00:00One of my favourites is Do Androids Dream of Elect...One of my favourites is <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</i> which was turned into the rather more forgettably titled <i>Blade Runner</i> when they made a movie out of it. <br /><br />I quite liked Rankin's <i>Knots and Crosses</i> too (one of the early Rebus novels).<br />Then there's practically anything that John Irving writes:<br />A Prayer for Owen Meany<br />A Widow for One Year<br />The Cider House Rules <br />Trying to Save Piggy Sneed.<br />They give you no clue but when you've finished reading you realise they couldn't be called anything else.MorningAJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04719744167307369768noreply@blogger.com