Mine is "The Mute's Soliloquy" by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Mine is "The Mute's Soliloquy" by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven-Sherman Alexi
'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' (Seth Grahame-Smith) caught my eye. What it says on the tin apparently.
To A God Unknown
Winner Take Nothing
I was always partial to "Of Mice and Men", "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Sound and the Fury".
A good quote is always nice. Maybe that's why I like, "Slouching Toward Bethlehem".
A Diamond as Big as the Ritz.
Huxley had a knack for making titles out of some of Shakespeare's best lines - 'After Many A Summer', 'Time Must Have a Stop'. I quite like Maugham's title's - 'The Moon in the Gutter', 'The Razor's Edge'. Joyce - 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is a great 'what it says on the tin' title. Others: 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'...
it's probably been mentionned before but :
"On murder considered as one of the fine arts"
:thumbsup:
East of Eden and Far from the Madding Crowd.
Mourning Becomes Elektra
The Illustrated Man
Adios, Scheherezade
The Prophet is a book I never got tired of reading and after reading it I felt that the author of this book is a mystic. I got transformed after that. I am no longer the same and my attitudes have undergone a sea change.
This book is unbeatable and recommendable for those who is interested in spirituality.
Interesting that you call The Moon and Sixpence the Moon in the Gutter is that perhaps a foreign translation?Quote:
Originally Posted by mal4mac
I recommend the Bothers Karamazov too
Les Miserables is always a worthy read.
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
Kafka on the Shore.
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Once and Future King
Look Back in Anger
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Idiot
You Bright and Risen Angels - William T Vollman
Elective Affinities - Goethe
La vie: mode d'emploi. Romans - George Perec (Life: a User's Manual. Novels)
Funny, was just in a bookshop thinking about this. In no particular order:
A Clockwork Orange
Lord of the Flies
Naked Lunch
A Handful of Dust
Nausea
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Airtight Garage
Roadside Picnic
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Whatever Happened to the Happy Laughing Girl in the Red Gingham Dress?
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flames
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills
Vanity Fair
To the Lighthouse
Heart of Darkness
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
The Rape of the Lock
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Grapes of Wrath
And
The Sun Also Rises
and
Tender is the Night
I knew I'd think of a few more.
I second this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Modest Proposal
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
a good book too.
Corrigendum: One of those above should be
What Happened to the Laughing and Loving Girl in the Gingham Dress?
I kind of prefer my wrong version, though.
Dostoyevsky - The house of the dead.
ps: "The Once and Future King " what an idiot title
I hope you are joking. You know what it means?Quote:
Originally Posted by Griffith
I've always been partial to the titles A Clockwork Orange, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and Beyond Good and Evil.
The Swimming-Pool Library
While I did not particularly like the book, I've always liked the title Their Eyes Were Watching God.
À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
I second this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Katy North
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.
Everything is Illuminated
Love in the Time of Cholera
The God of Small Things
Brave New World (was this taken from The Tempest?)
At Swim-Two-Birds
The Bell Jar
If This is a Man
A Tranquil Star
Cry, the Beloved Country
Things Fall Apart
I haven't read it, but A Thousand Splendid Suns caught my eye in Waterstones recently.
There are so many others. I'm always disappointed when a title is original and promising, but the book doesn't live up to its name.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
And although it's mostly non-fiction, My Tank Is Fight. A book on different types of weaponry.
Some of my favorite titles (from different genres):-
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Waiting for Godot
The Guide (The title is quite apt to the novel.)
The Shadow Lines
Untouchable
Things Fall Apart
And Then There Were None
How about Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter?
On a more serious note, how about:
Tender is the Night
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Paradise Lost
The Sound and the Fury
And that's to name but a few...
Hmm, both lifted though - allusions count?Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
I quite like Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up:ack2:
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
As I Lay Dying
On The Duty of Civil Disobedience, even though it's an essay.
Slaughterhouse Five
Breakfast of Champions
Tender is the Night
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Sound and the Fury
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Stars My Destination
I've always liked:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Midsummer Night's Dream
I saw a 'young adult' book with the title, ''Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You''. I thought it was quite nice.