From: brendawriter@yahoo.com   
      
   On 4/26/2015 4:17 PM, J.Pascal wrote:   
   > On Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 1:48:15 AM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:   
   >> J.Pascal used his keyboard to write :   
   >>> On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 9:02:02 PM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:   
   >>>> After serious thinking Bill Swears wrote :   
   >>>>> On 4/22/2015 8:53 PM, Kay Shapero wrote:   
   >>>>>> In article , wswears@gci.net says...   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> On 4/14/2015 11:28 PM, Kay Shapero wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> In article , mdhangton@gmail.com says...   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> What's the worst you can come up with?   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> "Book".. though come to think of it there's one of those out there,   
   >>>>>>>> though the title isn't in English, and it seems to be quite popular.   
   :)   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Putnam's Puerile Petunias Proliferated Pointlessly.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Hmm... maybe The Dullest Story Ever Told?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> Putnam being the PhD who realized that the zombie plague was inescapable,   
   >>>>> and   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Why does character need a doctorate to know to run from zombies?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> organized a small group of contagion free and hardy survivors to move   
   into   
   >>>>> orbit. After many years of strife to get the orbital arcology in working   
   >>>>> order, and the sociology of the disparate population functioning   
   >>>>> peacefully,  he finally had time to look down, and realized that his home   
   >>>>> was inhabited by  zombies, who puttered by habit through something like   
   >>>>> normal domesticity,  completely ignoring the Petunias blooming in riot,   
   >>>>> having outgrown the beds  his wife had planted those years before. Quite   
   >>>>> poignant, in a zombie laden,  heavy handed way.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> I'm not quite sure how you mean this synopsis to be taken.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Let me ask another question.  Consider the title   
   >>>>   
   >>>> _Hip-Hop Bitches of Gor_   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This suggests the body of the manuscript will be puerile shit.  (I made   
   >>>> it up.)  Is it a bad title?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Here is another one:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> _A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, by Frederick Douglas_   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This book is one of the few autobiographies worth reading, but is it a   
   >>>> crappy title?   
   >>>   
   >>> If either title accurately describe the book, they're good titles.   
   >>>   
   >>> If the Hip Hop Gor thing has nothing to do with Gor or Hip Hop, maybe it's   
   >>> about a knitting club in Kansas... then it's a bad title.   
   >>>   
   >> I'm presuming you know what John Norman's Gor series was.  Let us say   
   >> both titles are for books about slavery.   
   >   
   > I'm failing to see your point in any way whatsoever.   
   >   
   > "About slavery" describes almost nothing.  You could take a 50 Shades and   
   biography of Margaret Thatcher and say they were both "about being a woman."   
   >   
   > A title is a good title if it helps to sell the book to people who want to   
   buy the book.   
   >   
   > So... bad title.  "Firefly".  Freaking HORRIBLE title.  I and who knows how   
   many thousands of other people who were the exact audience for that show never   
   bothered to watch it because what the heck is "Firefly?"  Give me that title   
   and "by the creator    
   of Buffy" and it has not been "sold to the people who want to buy it."   Now,   
   "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is an awesome title of amazing brilliance.  It   
   describes the movie in four words. Only one less word than, "Ditzy valley girl   
   fights vampires."   
   >   
   > Going back to your "book about slavery" thing, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"   
   and "Dracula" are both "about Vampires" but the fact they are doesn't make   
   them interchangeable.   
   >   
   > -Julie   
      
   The book title is exactly similar to the book cover. It is a signal, to   
   the reader, about the type of book this is. So the reader can   
   immediately know if this is a book she will enjoy. An extremely literary   
   title "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang" comes to mind -- attracts a very   
   different audience than "Debbie Does Dallas."   
      
   We don't see this so much in the book industry, but in movies the title   
   of the film and the graphic -- the poster or advertising image -- is   
   calibrated with exquisite care to reach a precise market. Thick volumes   
   could be written about the successes and failures on this front.   
      
   Brenda   
      
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