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On 3/24/2012 4:48 PM, Hawke wrote:
On 3/23/2012 4:39 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
On 3/23/2012 11:48 AM, Hawke wrote:
On 3/22/2012 6:29 PM, wrote:
On Mar 22, 8:38 pm, wrote:


So let me understand this, you're saying that saying the title of a
book
tells you what the book is about is idiotic? Really? Then why not tell
me what percentage of books have a title that give no clue as to what
the book is about. Or how about tell us what is the purpose of a
book's
title?


Hawke

The title of a book is the name of the book. Pretty much the same as
Dave Smithers is your name. Your name may or may not give a clue
about what you are about. I think the Bible is the book that is the
most sold book. It's title does not say what the book is about. The
purpose of a books title is to have a way to easily identify the
book. It provides a way to search for copies of the book and a way to
tell others about a book so they can find and read it. A title is
much easier to remember than say a number.

First I'll take you example of the Bible. The word bible comes from the
Greek word biblios or something close to that. It means a collection of
books. So the title bible tells exactly what the bible is.


You know that *now*. You didn't know it two minutes before you did a
Google search on "Bible".


Authors generally name their books with names that increase sales. So
to an author the purpose of a title may be to catch attention as well
as provide a way to identify the book.

That's true. A good, catchy title helps to sell a book.


Even if the title implies a lie.


Why do you think it is important to know the percentage of books that
have a title that gives no clue to what the book is about?

It's important because


It isn't important.


As I see
it that is not relevant. It appears you just threw that out for no
reason other than to be typing something. My guess is that a majority
of novels have titles that do not indicate what the book is about. But
I think a majority of text books do have titles that indicate what the
book is about. I suggest you look at the New York Times best sellers
list and see if you can guess what the books are about from the
titles.


It's true that novels are the most likely to have a title that may not
tell you anything about what the book is about


Hilton wrote a novel - well, fiction in any case.


You've really made a hell of a lot of claims about a book you've never
even laid eyes on.


The fact you're citing it as gospel tells me everything I need to know.
Oh, that and the fact that the author was a crackpot conspiracy theory
lawyer who eventually got disbarred.

Do you know that Hilton sued the San Francisco Airport and a few dozen
other agencies for hundreds of millions of dollars because he says the
airport noise made him go so completely nuts that his wife and children
left him? Look it up. That's your boy, Ptooey - some scholar and legal
whiz-bang, haw haw haw.