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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (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 (three months ago) link
otm
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:28 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
agreed
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:57 (three months ago) link
Nothing About It Is Interesting
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:59 (three months ago) link
Every Book I Never Read
― H.P, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:10 (three months ago) link
Soref otm
― H.P, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:12 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
Small Lights Lie Everywhere
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:04 (three 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 (three months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/1QlU1wrhbd— John Levenstein (@johnlevenstein) March 26, 2024
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 02:03 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
All thesmall wives
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 10:22 (three 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 (three months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Vf2vo2IqL._SL1200_.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:39 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
All Creatures are Small
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:43 (three months ago) link
Dirty Sexy Money (2007)
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:48 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
Tell me lies, tell me Sweet Little Filthy Sexy Tiny Big Lies
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:53 (three months ago) link
Lionsgate has acquired the rights to ‘SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE’ starring Cillian Murphy.The film takes place over Christmas in 1985, when a devoted father (Murphy) discovers the startling secrets being kept by the convent in his town, and shocking truths about his own life too. pic.twitter.com/0SqxR3FW2T— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) June 5, 2024
― jaymc, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 20:13 (three weeks 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