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― jmm, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
fuck sake.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:08 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCs1rkAXZ9o
― CumuloNIMBY (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
Working title was apparently "Lady Dicks," so this may be for the better.
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:45 (three years ago) link
http://celebmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/kathryn-newton-the-map-of-tiny-perfect-things-poster-2021-0.jpg
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Saturday, 13 March 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
LMAO!
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Saturday, 13 March 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
Wait what?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 March 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-million-big-pretty-tiny-little-lies-everywhere
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 16 May 2021 07:30 (three years ago) link
watched this a few months back, it was not my choice, some interesting ideas in there i guesshttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjQ1MjM0OTE2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzgwMDY4NzM@._V1_.jpg
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 16 May 2021 08:21 (three years ago) link
Bigby, The Littlest Big Dog in the World
― calzino, Sunday, 16 May 2021 08:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.reeloneent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/47736-_1_PRETTY_LITTLE_VICTIM_KEY_ART_V4-scaled.jpg
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link
I saw an article about the upcoming TV series Tiny Beautiful Things and was like, didn't they make a show called that a few years ago? No, that was Tiny Pretty Things
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
This trend started with Little Bighorn
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.applewoodbooks.com/Assets/ProductImages/9781557095916.jpg
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
See also--
The God of Small Things (perhaps the book that kicked this off?)Small Great ThingsScrappy Little NobodyLittle EarthquakesTen Tiny BreathsShiny Broken PiecesTiny Dark SeedsEach Tiny SparkThis Tiny Perfect WorldThe Association of Small BombsThe Ministry of Utmost HappinessThe Dazzling TruthA Teeny Bit of TroubleA Teeny Taste of Scandal
Big Lies in a Small TownBright Shiny MorningThe Queen of Bright and Shiny ThingsEvery Shiny ThingNine Shiny ObjectsTiny Ladies in Shiny Pants
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
haha i was just thinking about this but i couldn't really articulate it, of course there's an ilx thread.
it is annoying.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Map_of_Tiny_Perfect_Things?wprov=sfla1
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:03 (one year ago) link
How many books have titles like this and the front cover is just large type white font with a background of interlaced CGI flowers
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
this title convention is like a mash-up of grown-up YA, multicult Chick Lit, McSweeney's sincere-core and cutesy crime fiction.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
The God of Small Things (perhaps the book that kicked this off?)
Well, Thomas Berger published the western novel Little Big Man in 1964. It was a Dustin Hoffman film in 1970.
John Crowley published the fantasy novel Little, Big in 1981.
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things came out in 1997.
So I get the annoyance with a twee cliché (tweeché?), but comic juxtaposition and cognitive dissonance are as old as literature. (Cf. Shakespeare, "Though she be but little, she is fierce.")
I don't know whom to blame but it seems unfair to blame Arundhati Roy.
Maybe giving atomic bombs cute names Fat Man and Little Boy was in poor taste.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
of course there are antecedents but having worked in a bookstore from the late 90s to the late 00s there was a definite in titles like this in that era. The God of Small Things sounded kind of profound and cozy at the same time, which is the vibe I get from a lot of these.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
One time when something bad failed to happen - like I dropped a glass and it didn't break - my girlfriend said "thank the thousand little gods."
I don't know where that came from but I found it charming and I married her.
Shit, maybe I'm the problem.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
Also, Little Earthquakes rocks. Do not mess with 90s Tori.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 19:48 (one year ago) link
Big Trouble in Little China?
― Ste, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClygZtp8mA
― Alba, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
A little bit of Monica in my lifeA little bit of Erica by my side
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 21:57 (one year ago) link
Just saw this tweet and came to revive. Glad to see we're already on top of it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the seventh thing with this title to have been released in the past five years pic.twitter.com/4E3jYU7y7j— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) April 5, 2023
― jaymc, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 23:19 (one year ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/13/be/fb13be08624cd5b136fa66951f715abb.jpg
― jmm, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 23:32 (one year ago) link
Damn, guess I need to retitle my forthcoming novel A Heartbreaking Work of Diminuitive Shiny Objects. Maybe I will call it Small Items that Are Actually Big instead.
Bummer because Wes Anderson was set to direct and Michael Cera had expressed interest.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
It's actually part of a trilogy that is tentatively called Large Yet Small: the Quiet Loud Saga
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
Extremely Big & Incredibly Tiny
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 April 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link
Medium-Sized and Completely Reasonable
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 April 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link
Sadly I got no traction in Hollywood for my script of Nothing Nowhere All at Different Times.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 April 2023 00:14 (one year ago) link
Extremely Tiny, Shockingly Big, and Things
― Vinnie, Thursday, 6 April 2023 00:50 (one year ago) link
Sounds like a good movie, unfortunately I will probably be unable to hear or see the title without thinking about this https://t.co/TCGT63Oicp pic.twitter.com/BVN5WDXBrD— Jonathan (@jonathanmb32) February 15, 2024
― Alba, Friday, 16 February 2024 16:20 (four months ago) link
The End We Start From is a 2023 British survival film directed by Mahalia Belo and starring Jodie Comer, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston and Mark Strong.
― visiting, Monday, 19 February 2024 04:19 (four months ago) link
Meant to find and bump this thread for Wicked Little Letters.
― emil.y, Monday, 19 February 2024 14:39 (four months ago) link
All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld review – bracing and brilliant essay collection https://t.co/JYIGT00JCW— Observer New Review (@ObsNewReview) March 25, 2024
All Things Are Too Small serves as comment on the whole phenomenon
― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2024 09:33 (three months ago) link
Sounds like an answer song to Blink 182
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 09:40 (three months ago) link
I thought the harpy was ok but I would never have picked it up if I knew the author had previously written something with a title as shit as “the end we start from”
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 25 March 2024 10:24 (three months ago) link
"All the Light We Cannot See" is another egregious example of this. What about it????
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 25 March 2024 10:58 (three months ago) link
Becca Rothfeld: ‘a philosopher, polemicist and wit’ - and author of an essay on Talking Heads , which cries out to be considered in "OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever"?
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Monday, 25 March 2024 11:49 (three months ago) link
Talking Heads connection is making me wonder if you could trace a line between this old David Byrne quote and the bad title phenomenon:
I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
― soref, Monday, 25 March 2024 11:58 (three months ago) link
to all the lights ive loved before
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 12:05 (three months ago) link
All the Bruno we don't talk about
― nashwan, Monday, 25 March 2024 12:46 (three months ago) link
Little Creatures
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 13:36 (three months ago) link
he did an album with Eno in 2008 called 'Everything That Happens Will Happen Today' which feels in the same ballpark
― soref, Monday, 25 March 2024 13:43 (three months ago) link
A bold attempt to dethrone Blink-182 and Arundhati Roy in one book.
― jmm, Monday, 25 March 2024 13:52 (three months ago) link
i run a queer book club in my neighborhood and last month we read the acclaimed 2022 novel all this could be different. book was even worse than its title
― ivy., Monday, 25 March 2024 15:46 (three months ago) link
startling secrets AND shocking truths? I'm in.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 20:16 (three weeks ago) link