This title format that drives me bonkers - Big Little Lies etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClygZtp8mA

A little bit of Monica in my life
A little bit of Erica by my side

Just saw this tweet and came to revive. Glad to see we're already on top of it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the seventh thing with this title to have been released in the past five years pic.twitter.com/4E3jYU7y7j

— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) April 5, 2023

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/13/be/fb13be08624cd5b136fa66951f715abb.jpg

Damn, guess I need to retitle my forthcoming novel A Heartbreaking Work of Diminuitive Shiny Objects. Maybe I will call it Small Items that Are Actually Big instead.

Bummer because Wes Anderson was set to direct and Michael Cera had expressed interest.

It's actually part of a trilogy that is tentatively called Large Yet Small: the Quiet Loud Saga

Extremely Big & Incredibly Tiny

Medium-Sized and Completely Reasonable

Sadly I got no traction in Hollywood for my script of Nothing Nowhere All at Different Times.

Extremely Tiny, Shockingly Big, and Things

Sounds like a good movie, unfortunately I will probably be unable to hear or see the title without thinking about this https://t.co/TCGT63Oicp pic.twitter.com/BVN5WDXBrD

— Jonathan (@jonathanmb32) February 15, 2024

The End We Start From is a 2023 British survival film directed by Mahalia Belo and starring Jodie Comer, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston and Mark Strong.

Meant to find and bump this thread for Wicked Little Letters.

All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld review – bracing and brilliant essay collection https://t.co/JYIGT00JCW

— Observer New Review (@ObsNewReview) March 25, 2024

All Things Are Too Small serves as comment on the whole phenomenon

Sounds like an answer song to Blink 182

I thought the harpy was ok but I would never have picked it up if I knew the author had previously written something with a title as shit as “the end we start from”

"All the Light We Cannot See" is another egregious example of this. What about it????

Becca Rothfeld: ‘a philosopher, polemicist and wit’ - and author of an essay on Talking Heads , which cries out to be considered in "OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever"?

Talking Heads connection is making me wonder if you could trace a line between this old David Byrne quote and the bad title phenomenon:

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

to all the lights ive loved before

All the Bruno we don't talk about

Little Creatures

he did an album with Eno in 2008 called 'Everything That Happens Will Happen Today' which feels in the same ballpark

Sounds like an answer song to Blink 182

A bold attempt to dethrone Blink-182 and Arundhati Roy in one book.

i run a queer book club in my neighborhood and last month we read the acclaimed 2022 novel all this could be different. book was even worse than its title

review- "pity it wasnt"

Current Indie Bookstore Bestsellers:

Incredibly Bright Creatures
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

On the whole, is this phenomenon worse than the 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' 'Shitting Lemons in Sicily' nonsense from the 00s?

House of Blank and Blank is another format I hate

House of Earth and Blood
House of Sky and Breath
House of Sand and Fog
House of Flame and Shadow
House of Salt and Sorrows
House of Ash and Shadows
House of Roots and Ruin
House of Lies and Sorrow
House of Bane and Blood
House of Velvet and Glass
House of War and Bone
House of Ivy and Sorrow

there's a new show called Apple Never Falls

is it on Apple TV?

I thought half of those "House Of" titles were made up! But they all seem genuine.

House of Words and Rivers
House of Mist and Memories
House of Clocks and Eagles
House of Ice and Conjury

Could do this all day really.

I hate the name Everything Everywhere All At Once, fwiw, which also makes me think of the two JSF novel titles I also hate: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Everything Is Illuminated.

Oh I guess two of those were addressed above

it makes me think of Everything, All At Once, Forever, because I am a Indie

I can go to the amnesty bookshop at any given time & find like 5 random novels that do the flaubert’s parrot/wittgenstein’s mistress thing: Adorno’s dildo, Hitler’s cufflinks, Proust’s GameBoy &c

Remarkably Bright Creatures

haha just realized someone posted that one upthread but got the title was wrong, hence I didn't find it in ctrl f

https://images-us.bookshop.org/ingram/9780143127550.jpg?height=500&v=v2-a7d1aa0651c054931f75e188866634b8

and yet, and yet

Now playing at IFC Center:

Do Not Expect Much From The End Of The World
The Taste Of Things

Everywhere is a big one too

Little Altars Everywhere
Everywhere You Don't Belong
The Girl From Everywhere
Everywhere and Every Way
Everywhere I Look

I'm trying to put my finger on what it is that's so bad about these titles, it's like they have this profound genericness and forced ambiguity. The Thing of Objects. Everyone Watches When Nothing Happens. Sort of Raymond Carverish but with no emotion.

Everyone Worth Knowing
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead
The Opposite of Everyone
Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town
Everyone But Myself
Everyone Knows You Go Home

SMALL WORDS IN BIG LETTERS

The tone is slightly childlike, full of wonderment and openness, could be about literally anything (or "Everything")

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Everything_Must_Go_Poster.jpg (apparently based on a Raymond Carver story of a different name, Why Don't You Dance?)

Goodnight Nobody
Nobody is Ever Missing
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
Nobody, Somebody, Anybody
Nobody's Magic
Nobody Knows But You
The Nobodies Album
The Nobody People

All the Light We Cannot See
All the Bright Places
All the Dangerous Things
All the Stars and Teeth
All the Birds in the Sky
All the Lovers in the Night
All the Little Raindrops
All the Broken Places
All the Breaking Waves
All the Pretty Horses, Young Dudes, President's Men, King's Men etc.