# What are your favourite titles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161 "2007-12-07T15:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/41 "2007-12-08T00:52:40Z")
_The Book of Silence_ by Lawrence Watt-Evans. _Thunder of the Captains_ by Holly Lisle and Aaron Allston. _All Flesh is Grass_ by Clifford D Simak. _The Wind from a Burning Woman_ by Greg Bear. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/42 "2007-12-08T02:23:23Z")
[QUOTE=E. Thorp] [nitpick]That would be waaay too much solitude. You mean “hundred.”[/nitpick] [/QUOTE] Damnit! That’s one of my favorite books, too…gah! ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/43 "2007-12-08T03:21:32Z")
Catch-22 Great book, great title. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/44 "2007-12-08T07:10:38Z")
Woody Allen’s fictitious titles of plays and novels in his stories. Those who Squirm Dark Penguin A Cyst For Gus ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/45 "2007-12-08T09:36:02Z")
A minor hit song from Ray Stevens: “Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills”. A good movie title is “The Big Lebowski”. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/46 "2007-12-08T15:45:15Z")
**Lord of the Flies** That’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/47 "2007-12-08T16:49:34Z")
Film: _Chopper Chicks in Zombietown_ Book: _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_ Song: “Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw?” Comic series: _Horny Biker Sluts_ ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/48 "2007-12-08T17:07:16Z")
I always liked “Al Quiet on the Western Front.” The book report’s built-in - title, and “nothing new to report.” I work with a bunch of fellow English majors. We’re geeky for silly jokes like that. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/49 "2007-12-08T17:41:28Z")
All of these are books: _Adventures in the Skin Trade Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim In Watermelon Sugar When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? Pecked to Death by Ducks The Reason Why the Closet-Man Is Never Sad The Damnation of Theron Ware, or Illumination Me Talk Pretty One Day Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers_ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/50 "2007-12-08T17:43:00Z")
**The Stepford Wives** It gave a new word to the language. I recent saw the phrase “He appeared to have been stepfordized.” ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/51 "2007-12-08T17:47:28Z")
Movies **The Bad Popes** Ooo, they’re so naughty! **The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother** Books **Hellfire Nation** **A Natural History of the Rich** **After Man** ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/52 "2007-12-08T17:52:06Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] **Carter beats the devil** - again, not read the book (and not likely to after reading the blurb) but sounds like the kind of book that I _could_ like. [/QUOTE] It’s a great title, and such a good book. My suggestions: _The Virgin Suicides_, _The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime_, _We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families_ and _Special Topics in Calamity Physics_ This is tricky, judging on title alone. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/53 "2007-12-08T19:11:33Z")
(From my cookbook shelf) \*Outlaw Cook Caramel Knowledge Tough Guys Don’t Dice\* Music: \*She Don’t Want Nobody Near Cats on Mars I’m Afraid of Americans\* ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/54 "2007-12-08T22:39:12Z")
_Ella Minnow Pea: a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/55 "2007-12-09T06:13:13Z")
“Darkness at Noon,” by Arthur Koestler “Wide Sargasso Sea,” Jean Rhys “Appointment in Samarra,” John O’Hara “Howl,” Allen Ginsberg “Midnight’s Children,” Salmon Rushdie ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/56 "2007-12-09T07:16:49Z")
Sense and Sensibility Eyes Wide Shut What Dreams May Come Live a Life Less Ordinary Spanked with a Goody (band name) Quiet Riot ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/57 "2007-12-09T07:22:13Z")
Albums: _A Love Supreme In a Silent Way Blues and the Abstract Truth Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter Lullaby for Liquid Pig For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night_ Songs: “I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)” “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” “The Clouds Are Full of Wine (Not Whiskey or Rye)” (I could do a whole list of just great Beefheart titles) “E’s Flat, Ah’s Flat Too” “The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers” (Mingus titles, too) “The Devil Came from Kansas” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/58 "2007-12-09T11:57:47Z")
_It’s Christmas at Ground Zero_, Weird Al Yankovic song. ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/59 "2007-12-09T17:25:54Z")
_Because It Is Bitter, and Because It is My Heart_ by Joyce Carol Oates ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/60 "2007-12-09T17:48:20Z")
Book: [The Way the Future Was](http://www.amazon.com/Way-Future-Was-Memoir/dp/0345277147/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197221747&sr=1-3) - [Fred Pohl’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Pohl) autobiography, and an enjoyable read for anyone with interest in science fiction, or depression-era life. Harpo Speaks is also a great title. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161.md?page=4)