John Grisham: Master of Book Titles

[Spidey13]

Hmmm...I've just written a new book. It's nonfiction and it's about a guy who is convicted of rape and murder and is sentenced to death. Later on, evidence arises that shows that this guy did not commit the crimes. It turns out, the man is innocent. What should I call the book? Hmmmm....Oh, I've got it. The Innocent Man (http://www.amazon.com/Innocent-Man-Murder-Injustice-Small/dp/0385517238/sr=1-1/qid=1162383509/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3988477-8219316?ie=UTF8&s=books)!

Genius. Pure Genius.

[/sarcasm mode]

OK, sorry. I just had to get that off my chest.

[Charlie Monoxide]

Damn you, now you've gone and spoiled it ....

Charlie (maybe there will be a plot twist) Monoxide

[TragicMonkey]

I would have called it "Lettuce Lettuce Byzantium Fruitbat".

Just to make sure nobody else had used the same title. Originality is easy. Making sense is hard.

[greeng]

I'm oddly interested in 'Lettuce Lettuce Byzantium Fruitbat'. (Is it iambic pentameter? Higher math always muddles my brain.)

[JoeTheJuggler]

I can't wait for him to write his memoirs: The Novelist.

[TragicMonkey]

I'm oddly interested in 'Lettuce Lettuce Byzantium Fruitbat'. (Is it iambic pentameter? Higher math always muddles my brain.)

It's a coming-of-age story. The hero is a beach towel. Will he find love during Spring Break, or will the aliens find the Bevucizumab Serum first? Will Lady Emmebelle discover the poisoned diamonds before she weds Lord Trottrottrot? Is Auntie Sexy's will a forgery, and if not, will the manatee habitat be preserved? It's a race against time, love, tenderness, and genetically engineered dinosaurs in this roller coaster of a romantic mystery scifi horror fantasy pornographic epic! Featuring the scratch-and-sniff stickers of all your favorite characters, from Drivington the butler, to Butlerton the driver, and Feebles, the little cat that discovered the true meaning of Xmas.

Available in fine bookstores December 19th. Preorder from Amazon today and receive twenty cents off the sequel, "Murdery Nights".

[Spidey13]

TragicMonkey is my new favorite author.

[NeilC]

I like the way James Patterson has gone for the easy option of nursery rhymes e.g.: Kiss The Girls, Roses Are Red, Along Came a Spider and so forth.

When I speak to people who are Patterson fans, I take childish delight in asking them if they’ve read his new ones: “Sat Down Beside Her” or “Pulled Out a Plum”.

[Glen.Nogami]

Speaking of Patterson, anyone read Beach Road? Funny to the point of awful.

EDIT: Awful to the point of funny. Must be the cognitive dissonance from the crappy final twist talking.

[patchbunny]

It's a coming-of-age story. The hero is a beach towel. Will he find love during Spring Break, or will the aliens find the Bevucizumab Serum first? Will Lady Emmebelle discover the poisoned diamonds before she weds Lord Trottrottrot? Is Auntie Sexy's will a forgery, and if not, will the manatee habitat be preserved? It's a race against time, love, tenderness, and genetically engineered dinosaurs in this roller coaster of a romantic mystery scifi horror fantasy pornographic epic! Featuring the scratch-and-sniff stickers of all your favorite characters, from Drivington the butler, to Butlerton the driver, and Feebles, the little cat that discovered the true meaning of Xmas.

Available in fine bookstores December 19th. Preorder from Amazon today and receive twenty cents off the sequel, "Murdery Nights".
I see that National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) is half over. It could have made an interesting project.

Especially the porn. Would dinosaurs have been involved?

[HeyLeroy]

I would have called it "Lettuce Lettuce Byzantium Fruitbat".

Just to make sure nobody else had used the same title. Originality is easy. Making sense is hard.

It's a coming-of-age story. The hero is a beach towel. Will he find love during Spring Break, or will the aliens find the Bevucizumab Serum first? Will Lady Emmebelle discover the poisoned diamonds before she weds Lord Trottrottrot? Is Auntie Sexy's will a forgery, and if not, will the manatee habitat be preserved? It's a race against time, love, tenderness, and genetically engineered dinosaurs in this roller coaster of a romantic mystery scifi horror fantasy pornographic epic! Featuring the scratch-and-sniff stickers of all your favorite characters, from Drivington the butler, to Butlerton the driver, and Feebles, the little cat that discovered the true meaning of Xmas.

Available in fine bookstores December 19th. Preorder from Amazon today and receive twenty cents off the sequel, "Murdery Nights".


It's quite obvious that you work for one of the publishers to which I sent my manuscript. As soon as my Snakes On A Plane lawsuit winds up expect a letter from my team of lawyers.

Plaigarizing scummy monkey.

[Luciana]

"Crime and Punishment".

In a Portuguese (as in Portugal) edition of a PD James book, they put a wheelchair on the cover, which was completely unrelated to the title of the story but that gave away the identity of whodunnit.

Umberto Eco has a booklet where he discusses the choices of titles by other authors and how he routinely tries to avoid it. "Foucault's Pendulum", "Name of the Rose", "Baudolino" are wonderful memorable names that give out nothing.

[Skeptic]

It's a coming-of-age story. The hero is a beach towel. Will he find love during Spring Break, or will the aliens find the Bevucizumab Serum first?.

Plagiarist! Douglas Adams already had beach towels and aliens in the same book before, in "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

[TragicMonkey]

I'm just shocked and appalled that nobody corrected my misspelling of "bevacizumab".

[AmateurScientist]

I'm just shocked and appalled that nobody corrected my misspelling of "bevacizumab".

I didn't want to come across as a plaigarist.

AS

[HeyLeroy]

I'm just shocked and appalled that nobody corrected my misspelling of "bevacizumab".

It's quite apparent that you changed the spelling hoping I wouldn't notice.

[Sandy M]

I like the way James Patterson has gone for the easy option of nursery rhymes e.g.: Kiss The Girls, Roses Are Red, Along Came a Spider and so forth.

When I speak to people who are Patterson fans, I take childish delight in asking them if they’ve read his new ones: “Sat Down Beside Her” or “Pulled Out a Plum”.


Probably got the idea from the late Evan Hunter, writing as "Ed McBain", series of books with the character Matthew Hope, using fairy tale titles: Rumplestiltskin, Beauty & the Beast, etc.

[TragicMonkey]

Probably got the idea from the late Evan Hunter, writing as "Ed McBain", series of books with the character Matthew Hope, using fairy tale titles: Rumplestiltskin, Beauty & the Beast, etc.

Beats the woman who titles all her books "A is for ..." and "B is for..." Eventually she'll get to "X is for Xenophobe" and "Z is for Zebra". Then she'll have to go to "AA is for Aardvark", "BB is for BB Gun", "CC is for Cubic Centimeters"...

[Sandy M]

Beats the woman who titles all her books "A is for ..." and "B is for..." Eventually she'll get to "X is for Xenophobe" and "Z is for Zebra". Then she'll have to go to "AA is for Aardvark", "BB is for BB Gun", "CC is for Cubic Centimeters"...


At that point, she'll probably switch to "1 is for....", "2 is for..." - then there won't be a problem... ever.

[NotJesus]

Beats the woman who titles all her books "A is for ..." and "B is for..." Eventually she'll get to "X is for Xenophobe" and "Z is for Zebra". Then she'll have to go to "AA is for Aardvark", "BB is for BB Gun", "CC is for Cubic Centimeters"...

DD is for Wet T-Shirt Contests...

[l0rca]

I would have gone with Innocent Man.

Or, I would have tried: Innocent, Man.

[ImaginalDisc]

Or, I would have tried: Innocent, Man.

You can try it, but you won't get a convicition, obviously.

[l0rca]

If it becomes a movie and Spike Lee directs it, we could call it...

Innocent, Man!

[ImaginalDisc]

If it becomes a movie and Spike Lee directs it, we could call it...

Innocent, Man!


And if Samuel L. Jackson stars, it's "One Innocent Bad*** ****************!"

[CFLarsen]

The Innocent Man (http://www.amazon.com/Innocent-Man-Murder-Injustice-Small/dp/0385517238/sr=1-1/qid=1162383509/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3988477-8219316?ie=UTF8&s=books)!

John Grisham totally ripped off Billy Joel.

[l0rca]

I'm tired of these mother****ing innocents, in our mother****ing jails!