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. 
It’s too bad this one can get misinterpreted given current usage.
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.
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.
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.
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)
I do like Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
The title of this self-help book caught me off-guard. Especially comboed with that picture!
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.
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?!
Ooh. I’d also like to add:
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein.
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).
For the double entendre, Irish musicians The Wolfe Tones.
My favorite named TV show is 24.
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.
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.*
Ooh, my favorite B5 title: And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place.
Music:
**Siamese Dream
Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
I Love You, But I’ve Chosen Darkness
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club**
Books:
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Gravity’s Rainbow
The Sound and the Fury
Catch-22
Me Talk Pretty One Day**
Forgot that one. It’s especially good if you’ve seen the episode.
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)
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