Really long book titles

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That really chaps my extruder. You know, like: LETS TWIST: HOW AMERICA GOT ITS GROOVE BACK AND LEARNED TO SHAKE WHAT ITS MAMA GAVE IT. It seems like they keep getting longer and longer.

ROFLMAO: HOW A DUMB SPIC FROM NEW JERSEY FOUND A WAY TO PISS OFF SWEDES AND OTHER EUROPEANS THANKS TO NERDS LIKE BILL GATES AND OTHER LEGENDARY GEEKS

Why? Has there been some market research that indicates books with long convoluted titles sell better?
 
Like the book in the copyright controversy recently written by the girl at Harvard? (You know, she went to my high school. *Ducks*)

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. Now that is a disgustingly long title. (And one that makes me less inclined to read it. *Hates teen novels*)
 
which brings me on nicely to a load of emo songs, many of the song titles are longer than the song itself.
 
Real men use stone tablets anyway.
 
Something like this one I used for a recent paper?

The Irish Republic: A Documented Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict and the Partitioning of Ireland, with a Detailed Account of the Period 1916-1923
by Dorothy Macardle

I don't think it's so much about sales but rather that academic books seem to have long titles...I'm not sure why. Maybe it's a term-paper mentality.
 
I made it a point to make the titles on my science fair projects as long and ridiculous as possible.
 
I am writing a book in which the title is longer than the whole book.
 
The longest title of a book I actually read had like 29 syllabels.

I didn't read it, but it was a book something like: The story of a bandit from France, that made a fortune with stealing and bought a ship with which he sailed to the new world and founded the city of Idontremember.

Edit: 2800th post!
 
I've been reading a few books about 16th century mathematicians and cartographers. Those boys wrote some books with some seriously long titles. Here are a few:

~ In 1530, Gemma Frisius published a book with a Latin title, which translated to:

"On the Principles of Astronomy and Cosmography, with Instruction for the Use of Globes, and Information on the World and on Islands and Other Places Recently Discovered"

~ In 1540, Gerardus Mercator published a guide to writing the brand new script that was scorching up literature in Europe, 'Italics'. That book may not have had a stupidly long title but it was certainly longer than it needed to be. It was called:

"Literarum latinarum, quas Italicas cursoriasque vocant, scribendarum ratio" aka ~ How to Write the Latin Letters Which They Call Italic or Cursive.

~ I also remember a friend in music publishing mentioning this very topic a while back. I refreshed my memory on this with google and found what she mentioned, Fiona Apple's 1999 album entitled:

"When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts He Thinks Like A King What He Knows Throws The Blows When He Goes To The Fight And He'll Win The Whole Thing Fore He Enters The Ring There's No Body To Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand And Remember That Depth Is The Greatest Of Heights And If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where To Land And If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right."

:crazyeye:
 
classic: "Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of
Gargantua and his son Pantagruel" by Francois Rabelais
 
"The watch adjuster’s manual being a practical guide for the watch and chronometer adjuster in making, springing, timing and adjusting for isochronism, positions and temperature”, by Fritts
 
Steph said:
"The watch adjuster’s manual being a practical guide for the watch and chronometer adjuster in making, springing, timing and adjusting for isochronism, positions and temperature”, by Fritts
Click to expand...

:)

THIS must be incredibly interesting read.
 
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