House of Blank and Blank is another format I hate
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:15 (six months ago) link
House of Earth and BloodHouse of Sky and BreathHouse of Sand and FogHouse of Flame and ShadowHouse of Salt and SorrowsHouse of Ash and ShadowsHouse of Roots and RuinHouse of Lies and SorrowHouse of Bane and BloodHouse of Velvet and GlassHouse of War and BoneHouse of Ivy and Sorrow
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:26 (six months ago) link
there's a new show called Apple Never Falls
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:29 (six months ago) link
is it on Apple TV?
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:30 (six months ago) link
I thought half of those "House Of" titles were made up! But they all seem genuine.
House of Words and RiversHouse of Mist and MemoriesHouse of Clocks and EaglesHouse of Ice and Conjury
Could do this all day really.
― I saw three hippies saving a whale (Matt #2), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:54 (six months ago) link
I hate the name Everything Everywhere All At Once, fwiw, which also makes me think of the two JSF novel titles I also hate: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Everything Is Illuminated.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:55 (six months ago) link
Oh I guess two of those were addressed above
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:56 (six months ago) link
it makes me think of Everything, All At Once, Forever, because I am a Indie
― imago, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:57 (six months ago) link
I can go to the amnesty bookshop at any given time & find like 5 random novels that do the flaubert’s parrot/wittgenstein’s mistress thing: Adorno’s dildo, Hitler’s cufflinks, Proust’s GameBoy &c
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:20 (six months ago) link
Remarkably Bright Creatures
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:32 (six months ago) link
haha just realized someone posted that one upthread but got the title was wrong, hence I didn't find it in ctrl f
https://images-us.bookshop.org/ingram/9780143127550.jpg?height=500&v=v2-a7d1aa0651c054931f75e188866634b8
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:33 (six months ago) link
and yet, and yet
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:35 (six months ago) link
Now playing at IFC Center:
Do Not Expect Much From The End Of The WorldThe Taste Of Things
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:37 (six months ago) link
Everywhere is a big one too
Little Altars EverywhereEverywhere You Don't BelongThe Girl From EverywhereEverywhere and Every WayEverywhere I Look
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:38 (six months ago) link
I'm trying to put my finger on what it is that's so bad about these titles, it's like they have this profound genericness and forced ambiguity. The Thing of Objects. Everyone Watches When Nothing Happens. Sort of Raymond Carverish but with no emotion.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:44 (six months ago) link
Everyone Worth KnowingEveryone Brave is ForgivenEveryone Who Can Forgive Me Is DeadThe Opposite of EveryoneEveryone I Kissed Since You Got FamousEveryone Dies Famous in a Small TownEveryone But MyselfEveryone Knows You Go Home
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:44 (six months ago) link
SMALL WORDS IN BIG LETTERS
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:46 (six months ago) link
The tone is slightly childlike, full of wonderment and openness, could be about literally anything (or "Everything")
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:48 (six months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Everything_Must_Go_Poster.jpg (apparently based on a Raymond Carver story of a different name, Why Don't You Dance?)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:49 (six months ago) link
Goodnight NobodyNobody is Ever MissingIf Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable ThingsNobody, Somebody, AnybodyNobody's MagicNobody Knows But YouThe Nobodies AlbumThe Nobody People
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:51 (six months ago) link
All the Light We Cannot SeeAll the Bright PlacesAll the Dangerous ThingsAll the Stars and TeethAll the Birds in the SkyAll the Lovers in the NightAll the Little RaindropsAll the Broken PlacesAll the Breaking WavesAll the Pretty Horses, Young Dudes, President's Men, King's Men etc.
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:56 (six months ago) link
If Wayne Coyne ever wrote a novel (assuming he hasn't) it would most likely have Everything in the title, also some reference to wildlife - possibly, if not probably, birds.
― I saw three hippies saving a whale (Matt #2), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:04 (six months ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:44 (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I think it's annoying because it's attempting to make a connection between the small/specific/everyday and the infinite/cosmic/transcendent in a way that supposed to be profound, but it just ends up sounding banal most of the time? A bit like the 'dancing plastic bag' stuff from American Beauty
― soref, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:08 (six months ago) link
otm
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:28 (six months ago) link
they are exactly the opposite of a title as great as the ipcress file, they do nothing and intrigue the least interesting ppl
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:30 (six months ago) link
It’s an instant no from me, when I think about someone presumably labouring for a long time to produce a work of art & then having to come up with a title for it that will make anyone ever at all in the big little world want to read it, & then what they come up with is essential “idk little everywheres all around or whatever”, I just think whoever makes that choice simply cannot have possibly written a good book
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:42 (six months ago) link
agreed
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:57 (six months ago) link
Nothing About It Is Interesting
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:59 (six months ago) link
Every Book I Never Read
― H.P, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:10 (six months ago) link
Soref otm
― H.P, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:12 (six months ago) link
I think they work by being vague but also familiar, so that you have the feeling that you've heard enough good things already to warrant the purchase. "Oh yeah, Pretty Liars Everywhere, I think I've heard of that."
― jmm, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:31 (six months ago) link
All Things Are Too Small serves as comment on the whole phenomenon
― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2024 bookmarkflaglink
Hilarious that Rothfeld, who made her name writing about modernist masterworks, allowed her book to fall into this format lol
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:52 (six months ago) link
Small Lights Lie Everywhere
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:04 (six months ago) link
All the Little Live Things a really good, devastating 1960's novel by Wallace Stegner
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:09 (six months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/1QlU1wrhbd— John Levenstein (@johnlevenstein) March 26, 2024
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 02:03 (six months ago) link
How did we make it this far without anyone mentioning Eat, Pray, Love
We should combine themEat all the big little lies I never told you, pray everywhere in the house of ivy and sorrow, love all at once
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 08:48 (six months ago) link
overly long ones are next, lets say fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe as an exemplar
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:21 (six months ago) link
They combined the titles that’s crazy https://t.co/XhyCrw75qZ pic.twitter.com/tvvm7Px09o— Nick Stellini (@StelliniTweets) March 26, 2024
― Alba, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 10:04 (six months ago) link
All thesmall wives
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 10:22 (six months ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1435452849i/90619.jpg
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:31 (six months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Vf2vo2IqL._SL1200_.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:39 (six months ago) link
Remember all the book covers that were just, like, shoes?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/817iFfLhJ+L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=M86PhpoehBAC&pg=PP1&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2B9KEeH3mVPMWU7HGtr5DdvQ0e8Q&w=1280
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:43 (six months ago) link
if James Herriot were writing today, his book would be called Little Big Animals
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:51 (six months ago) link
All Creatures are Small
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:43 (six months ago) link
Dirty Sexy Money (2007)
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:48 (six months ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387741079i/18079552.jpg
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:53 (six months ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1311978825i/8789529.jpg
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:56 (six months ago) link
xp The ad for Dirty Sexy Money started with a bunch of random words on the screen, and they disappear one by one until only "dirty" "sexy" and "money" remain. Probably exactly the way creators and execs come up with these half-assed titles
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:17 (six months ago) link
I wonder if the title for Dirty Sexy Money was inspired by this British TV movie?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY5MjIxODk2MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTgwOTgyMQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:24 (six months ago) link