Your favourite book title

Valmont

Mine has to be A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines. The title, which is originally from The Boke of St. Albans, evokes the full power of the novel itself in taking a literal interpretation of its original source and also an abstraction of its social meaning; both brought together in a young Yorkshire lad with no future who finds a kestrel. In short, it's a very clever play on the original source and quite a poetic expression of the book's theme.

So, I put it to you: What is your favourite book title and why?

beeroclock

I like The Sun also Rises, no real reason it just resonantes with me and is an optimstic sounding title (despite the authors sad ending in life)

Loneliness of the long distance runner, Look back in anger, She stoops to conquer, Factotum all have cool titles to me, again for no personal reason as such!

raah!

Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell. Despite its initial inscrutability, once you've read the book, this title very well captures the final conclusion and the feeling that one walks away from the book with.

deem79

For Whom The Bell Tolls - even though it's taken from a poem

eskimocat

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... Douglas Adams.

Loved that title. Loved that book.

fusuf

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

PurpleBee

Watt...

makes the confusion spill over into real life when someone asks you what you're reading

thebullkf

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

Loanshark Blues

"Time Snake and Super Clown" by Vincent King. It's described as the most demented novel of all time.. http://io9.com/5082454/the-most-demented-novel-of-all-time

Mr.Wemmick

There are many titles that have caught my eye over the years..

some from the top of my head:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - M. Kundera

Captain Correlli's Mandolin - L de Bernieres

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

stick girl

Kundera's 'Book of laughter and forgetting'. Title just speaks to me and the stories, like the title are dark and beautiful

Monkeybonkers

Valmont wrote: »

Mine has to be A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines. The title, which is originally from The Boke of St. Albans, evokes the full power of the novel itself in taking a literal interpretation of its original source and also an abstraction of its social meaning; both brought together in a young Yorkshire lad with no future who finds a kestrel. In short, it's a very clever play on the original source and quite a poetic expression of the book's theme.

Is the film 'Kes' taken from this book?

emeraldstar

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Is the film 'Kes' taken from this book?

Yep. Think I studied this movie in secondary school.

Denerick

I, Claudius.

Its so versatile.

I, Denerick, am very drunk.

For, example.

Valmont

deem79 wrote: »

For Whom The Bell Tolls - even though it's taken from a poem

Yes! That is another brilliant title and for the exact same reasons as A Kestrel For a Knave.

Roguery

Been Down So Long It Looked Like Up To Me

by Richard Farina

indough

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Cavehill Red

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.

A Clockwork Orange.

Gravity's Rainbow.

Stand on Zanzibar.

Toby Take a Bow

Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters.

Great title. Not such great stories.

belacqua_

More Pricks Than Kicks

JohnFalstaff

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

that or

Apple Crumble or We'll Rumble: The True Story of The Mountjoy Prison Sweet Trolley Riot by Paul Williams

Be||e

Atlas Shrugged.

Love the title; found the book tedious.

biohaiid

Identical - by Ellen Hopkins

Liffey 121

Dibs by Virginia M Axline:)