weird and Wonderful Books and Their Titles

[lurkerjuzjoinedup]

I seem to collect them

Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella - Curiouser and Curiousier Adventures in History By Michael Olmert.

Stipple, Wink and Gusset - The Great Originals: Men and Women Who gave Their Names to History by James Cochrane.

Scorn With added Vitriol by Matthew Parris.

Mondo Bizarro - Australia in the 70's by James Cockington.

"Quote...Unquote" by Nigel Rees.

Brush Up your Shakespeare - Author unknown as have stupidly lent book to someone.

My excuse is I used to write trivia questions.

Anyone got any others?

[Chaos]

"When things bite back", by Edward Tenner

I also have some translated titles:

"The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan is "Der Drache in meiner Garage" ("the dragon in my garage")

"Billions and Billions", also by Sagan, is "Gott und der tropfende Wasserhahn" ("god and the dripping tap")

"Ancient Inventions" by Nick Thorpe is "Keilschrift, Kompass, Kaugummi" ("cuneiform, compass and chewing gum")

[Bikewer]

"Leonardo's mountain of clams, and the Diet of Worms". Stephen Jay Gould.

[lurkerjuzjoinedup]

Originally posted by Chaos
"When things bite back", by Edward Tenner

Hmmmm. What kind of thing bites back what??

[Chaos]

Originally posted by lurkerjuzjoinedup


Hmmmm. What kind of thing bites back what??

No, don´t worry about your computer biting you (although, now that I think about it, mine has been eyeing me hungrily for some time :D )

It´s about the "revenge effects" of technology, that is, inventions that were thought to make live easier and safer, but end up doing just the opposite.

[epepke]

I've been thinking about Philip K. Dick lately. He had some good titles.

The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Confessions of a Crap Artist
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Galactic Pot-Healer

[Peter Jenkins]

The day we were mostly butterflies
Louis W King

P

[Dorian Gray]

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, by Vonnegut.
The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, by Heinlein

[geni]

Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
great title rubish book

[Chaos]

Originally posted by geni
Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
great title rubish book

Seconded.

[Prospero]

The White Plague by Frank Herbert. Yes, he did write other fiction besides the Dune series.

[ceptimus]

The man who mistook his wife for a hat. - Oliver Sacks.

[PygmyPlaidGiraffe]

The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood


ISBN: 0385491069

[PygmyPlaidGiraffe]

The Secret Life of Plants

- Peter Tompkins (who has written "secrets" about many things) and Christopher Bird

ISBN: 0060915870




"Had the majority of readers taken it in with the joy of escape to fantasy that may be accorded a good novel, no damage would have been done" - A.W. Galston and C.L. Slayman

Keep an eye on your plants! They could be leading alternate lives! They could be getting into all sorts of mischief, getting into their intersteller assault craft and declaring war on the Ur-Quan, for example. (http://www.angryflower.com/urquan.gif)

[Eventually]

"My Darling, My Hamburger" and "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" both by Paul Zindel

[Skeptic]

"Finnegans Wake".

Just to start, we have a triple-meaning title:

1). Finnegan's Wake (he died)

2). Finnegans Wake (the finnegans, his sons, are waking up again)

3). Finnegan = "fin-again".

The rest of the book is just as complicated. Yes, I have read it. No, I don't understand it.

[MoeFaux]

Geek Love is a terrific book. A wonderful read, very weird and full of heart.