# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/61 "2007-12-09T19:51:35Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Presumably your father is also the proud owner of [Boring Postcards: UK](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boring-Postcards-Martin-Parr/dp/0714838950) and [Langweilige Postkarten](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Langweilige-Postkarten-Boring-Postcards-Germany/dp/0714840629/ref=pd_sbs_b_img_4) (Boring Postcards: Germany). [/QUOTE] Yep. My father doesn’t do things halfway. He and Mom do a lot of traveling and he has sent me a boring postcard or two himself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/62 "2007-12-09T19:55:02Z")
[QUOTE=Pixilated] Sense and Sensibility [/QUOTE] It’s too bad this one can get misinterpreted given current usage. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelQReilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@MichaelQReilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelQReilly)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/63 "2007-12-09T20:02:27Z")
I know that its a pretty big cliche to quote or allude to Shakespeare in the title; and I don’t really like the book or the author, but \*\*The Sound and the Fury \*\*is my favorite title ever. ---
**Author:** ![rikc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@rikc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rikc)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/64 "2007-12-09T20:46:03Z")
I have to agree with **How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying**. Since we’re hanging out with Matthew Broderick, **Ferris Bueller’s Day Off** is also great. For books, I am going to say “hi!” to Dave Eggers: **What is the What** and **A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius** are great titles. I’ve always loved **The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle** , as well. I think that **Street Fighter** and **Psychonauts** Are great video games with really great titles. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/65 "2007-12-09T20:48:32Z")
_Slouching Towards Bethlehem_ I’ve never even read the book, but the title gives me the creeps. I love titles that take quotes from poems and use them to good effect. _No Country For Old Men_ is another one of these. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/66 "2007-12-09T21:20:45Z")
_The Mote in God’s Eye_ (a novel I’ve never read, but very smart title) _Repent, Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman_ (trippy title that really reflects its story) _For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky_ (ditto, this one a Star Trek episode) _The Dream of the Blue Turtles_ (an instrumental piece on the eponymous Sting album) ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/67 "2007-12-09T21:29:23Z")
I do like Murakami’s _The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle_. The title of [this self-help book](http://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/article/files/trump_cover.jpg) caught me off-guard. Especially comboed with that picture! ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/68 "2007-12-09T22:25:46Z")
Anything by Jean Shepard- _In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash_, _Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters_, and any of the titles of the stories in those books. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/69 "2007-12-09T23:54:15Z")
Oh! I’ve got some. **Watership Down,** by Richard Adams. It just sounds good. (and it is good.) **I Am The Doorway,** short story by Stephen King. I can’t explain why, it just sounds foreboding. **Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.** I think a lot of us here wish we would have thought of that. There was a shitty movie that came out last year called The Reaping. But during it’s trailer, it flashed **“What Hath God Wrought?”.** Why in the blue FUCK didn’t they use that as the title?! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/70 "2007-12-10T00:03:00Z")
Ooh. I’d also like to add: **Where the Sidewalk Ends,** by Shel Silverstein. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/71 "2007-12-10T00:10:48Z")
Sartre’s \*Nausea \*is an interesting title. The book manages to pinpoint some of the lesser expressed emotions, the ones we feel inside of us but never share to others. Such as sudden joy for nothing or, as the book tries to show, complete \*disgust \*(which I think might have been a better title, actually). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/72 "2007-12-11T13:44:42Z")
For the double entendre, Irish musicians **The Wolfe Tones**. ---
**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 11, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/73 "2007-12-11T13:53:16Z")
My favorite named TV show is **24**. ---
**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 11, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/74 "2007-12-11T14:29:47Z")
_The Roads Must Roll_ by Robert A. Heinlein. _A Race Through Dark Places_, _Ceremonies of Light and Dark_, _The Parliament of Dreams_, _Falling Toward Apotheosis_, and _The Deconstruction of Falling Stars_ are all good episode titles from _[Babylon 5_. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/75 "2007-12-11T15:45:56Z")
[How to Avoid Huge Ships](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197387386&sr=1-1). This book is perfect for all your huge ship avoiding needs, as evidenced by this customer review: \*Before I bought this book I often found avoiding huge ships to be a constant problem. Not a week would go by without some sort unforseen collision occuring and ruining my day. Then a friend bought me this book, and it has transformed my life. I won’t give too many of its insightful findings away, but one thing it taught me was to keep my eyes open for any super-tonne moving objects in my path by observing tell-tale secondary effects such as eclipsing of sunlight or other local weather effects (eg. localised protection from rain). It also taught me to try to stay clear of main shipping routes and the sea generally as this is where huge ships are said to frequent.\* ---
**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 11, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/76 "2007-12-11T16:58:08Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] _A Race Through Dark Places_, _Ceremonies of Light and Dark_, _The Parliament of Dreams_, _Falling Toward Apotheosis_, and _The Deconstruction of Falling Stars_ are all good episode titles from _[Babylon 5_. [/QUOTE] Ooh, my favorite B5 title: **And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place**. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/77 "2007-12-11T17:28:39Z")
Music: \*\*Siamese Dream Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness I Love You, But I’ve Chosen Darkness Black Rebel Motorcycle Club\*\* Books: \*\* Gravity’s Rainbow The Sound and the Fury Catch-22 Me Talk Pretty One Day\*\* ---
**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 11, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/78 "2007-12-11T21:54:41Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Ooh, my favorite B5 title: **And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place**. [/QUOTE] Forgot that one. It’s especially good if you’ve seen the episode. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/79 "2007-12-12T03:46:32Z")
I’m kinda sucker for titles that roll off the tongue most euphoniously. In no particular order, books, movies, short stories. - Benedicme, Ultima - No Country for Old Men - Alas, Babylon - The Pearl of the Soul of the World (crappy book, great title) - The Lions of al-Rassan - The Door into Fire - Horseman on the Roof - The Ballad of Lost C’Mell - The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal - The Dead Lady of Clown Town (the last three are Cordwainer Smith short stories, but I might as well list everything he ever wrote; the man had a hand with language that hits me like a bowlful of catnip hits a cat) ---
**Author:** ![kurilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@kurilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurilla)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/80 "2007-12-12T04:45:18Z")
_Children of Men_ – great title, good book, meh movie _The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever_ – I’ve always loved the title, but I threw the first book across the room about halfway through and gave up on the series right then and there “Days of Future Past” – a two-part story in _The Uncanny X-men_ _The Cat Who Walks Through Walls_ and _The Door Into Summer_ – Heinlein at his best, title-wise [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161.md?page=5)