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... or is the title of the book's sequel? (Cf. Frank McCourt's 'Tis -- whose title is the last sentence of Angela's Ashes.) Or would this be stretching it too far?

Themis-Athena wrote: "... or is the title of the book's sequel? (Cf. Frank McCourt's 'Tis -- whose title is the last sentence of Angela's Ashes.) Or would this be stretching it too far?"

Please add it, it's close enough....'specially when we seem to be having such trouble meeting the List requirements.....but I know they're out there, just gotta remember.

It's a hell of an idea for a list!

ACTUALLY, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" ends the last sentence in a STORY WITHIN U. K. Leguin's collection of that title. Close enough.

Themis-Athena wrote: "It's a hell of an idea for a list!"

Thanks, Themes: I bet if I sleep on it, some will come back to me.

This level of book knowledge is way beyond me.

Rdbot (Reese) wrote: "I'm assuming that, if THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS can stay on the list, then Updike's MARRY ME can be added. The words "Marry me" end the novel's final sentence. If I have assumed too much, ..."

ANOTHER ADMITTED STRETCH: "Rabbit........runs. Runs." The final paragraph. Call it Rabbit Understood.

Lobstergirl wrote: "This level of book knowledge is way beyond me."

This List for REALLY compulsive types.

All these are acceptable to me, especially "S", with its echo of Hawthorne, "On a field, sable, the letter 'A', gules".

Rdbot (Reese) wrote: "RE: Texts That Contain More Than One Work

The particular works that meet the criteria for inclusion are the following: Kate Chopin's "The Storm," David Henry Hwang's FOB, Charles Busch's VAMPIRE..."

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom !! Gotta have it. ......BTW, What is it ?

I have no idea what it is, but I added it to the Best Titles list!

M. Butterfly, or Madama Butterfly (libretto) or BOTH ??

Rdbot (Reese) wrote: "M. BUTTERFLY is what I had in mind.

As for VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM -- I did something (because of the sort of list this is) that I don't ordinarily do -- added a work that I haven't read.

..."
SOUNDS LIKE A GAG TITLE.....HAVE YOU READ Bimbos of the Death Sun ?

Thom wrote: "... ANOTHER ADMITTED STRETCH: "Rabbit........runs. Runs." The final paragraph. Call it Rabbit Understood. "

So what about the one-paragraph epilogue of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" (which serves as a/ or indeed, arguably THE ONLY direct explanation of the play's title, and which contains the line "I charge
you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women ... that between you and the women the play may please")? Too much of a stretch there?

Thom wrote: "Rdbot (Reese) wrote: "M. BUTTERFLY is what I had in mind.

As for VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM ...
SOUNDS LIKE A GAG TITLE.....HAVE YOU READ Bimbos of the Death Sun?"

Ooooh too cool, both of them. (Title-wise; I have no clue what either book actually is!!)

Lol ...

Sounds like a definite entry for the "Best Titles" list, in any event!

Oh, definitely. Will go vote for it there now.

Susanna wrote: "Oh, definitely. Will go vote for it there now."

Themis-Athena wrote: "Lol ...

Sounds like a definite entry for the "Best Titles" list, in any event!"

Sharyn McCrumb is a gentle and witty writer who enjoys having on SF WorldCon and other orgs both of us know and love. Her first, Zombies of the Gene Pool, and Bimbos... as well, would not raise a single Spockian eyebrow at WorldCon where you routinely have titles like "Satana Enslaved" and "Escape From Planet Macho", Slave Girls of Gor, and so on. It feels liberating (usually) and unsettling (often) to hang out where Sillyness is celebrated rather than regarded as literary sin.

This is by Sharyn McCrumb?! Seems like now I really do have to look it up ...

Themis-Athena wrote: "This is by Sharyn McCrumb?! Seems like now I really do have to look it up ..."

I LISTENED TO AN AUDIOBOOK (NOT A KINDLE) OF ZOMBIES.....

Still a great title.

Susanna wrote: "Still a great title."

My favorite title remains, Robert Benchley's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or David Copperfield.

Thom wrote: "Susanna wrote: "Still a great title."

My favorite title remains, Robert Benchley's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or David Copperfield."

Correction: "David Copperfield, or Twenty....."

Bizarro titles: Zombies of the Gene Pool, by Sharyn McCrumb

Is "The Dead" considered a book? My recollection is that it was a short story (possibly novella?) In Dubliners.

Jan C wrote: "Is "The Dead" considered a book? My recollection is that it was a short story (possibly novella?) In Dubliners."

Yeah, well, but the movie turns it into a book ...... ?