# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**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 12, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/81 "2007-12-12T05:16:33Z")
_The Tyranny of the Night, Sung in Blood_ : books by Glen Cook. _Instrumentalities of the Night_ a series by him. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/82 "2007-12-12T06:36:33Z")
_Out of the Silent Planet_ _A World Lit Only by Fire_, one I haven’t read yet, but someday. _Standing in the Rainbow_ by Fannie Flagg I’ve always been impressed by Dick Francis’ way with a title. They’re usually one word or a very short phrase, but they have layers of meaning that relate not only to the main story, but usually to at least one of the side plots. ---
**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 12, 2007, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/83 "2007-12-12T11:40:47Z")
[QUOTE=kurilla] “Days of Future Past” – a two-part story in _The Uncanny X-men_ [/QUOTE] Pretty close to the Moody Blues 1967 album _Days of Future Passed_. Speaking of which, I now recall that the band’s 1971 opus _Every Good Boy Deserves Favour_ ‘derives from the popular mnemonic used by music students to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef’. There is also a 1977 play by Tom Stoppard of the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/84 "2007-12-12T12:04:58Z")
**DOLLY PARTON!!!** No, Mr. Connery, that’s TITLES… 😃 ---
**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 13, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/85 "2007-12-13T01:00:58Z")
_Let’s All Kill Constance_, which I saw in the used bookstore today. I almost got it, but other shinies caught my eye. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/86 "2007-12-13T01:05:15Z")
Melaina and Persephaessa sound nice, although I’m not so sure about Kallipygos. (I like the ominous of the upcoming _There Will Be Blood_, and _No Country for Old Men_ is very evocative. _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension_ has to win it, though.) ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/87 "2007-12-13T01:37:17Z")
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills Edit the Sad Parts The Moon and Antarctica The Stars Are Projectors My Morning Jacket Styrofoam Boats Gravity Rides Everything Classy Plastic Lumber The Fruit That Ate Itself People as Places as People Lonesome Crowded West This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset Other People’s Lives Space Travel is Boring Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/88 "2007-12-13T02:08:22Z")
\*The Kandy-Colored Tangerine Flake Streamlined Baby Slouching Towards Bethlehem When the Sacred Ginmill Closes The Madness of a Seduced Woman\* ---
**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161/89 "2007-12-13T02:19:24Z")
**Graphic novels:** \*Season of Mists A Game of you Devil in the Gateway Children and Monsters \* **Books:** \*Venus as a boy An Unsuitable Job for a Woman\* (The last one is clever, because it forces you to think about what the job might be.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-titles/429161.md?page=4)