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Book Titles That May Not Be Ideal

Dave Astor | Posted 09.25.2012 | Books
Read More: Ivanhoe, L. Frank Baum, Sir Walter Scott, Novels, Alexandre Dumas, Margaret Atwood, Rob Roy, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oryx and Crake, The Three Musketeers, The Wonderful World of Oz, Ruben Bolling, Odd Book Titles, Book Titles, Books News
Dave Astor

If you can't judge a book by its cover, can you judge a book by its title? I ask that because there are some novels with a title character who is not the most prominent or interesting person in the book.

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Margaret Atwood Is An Optimist, Despite Writing Disaster

CNN | Todd Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: The Year of the Flood, Writing, Authors, Margaret Atwood, Books, Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood the Year of the Flood, The Handmaid's Tale, Books News

"Anybody who writes a book is an optimist," the much-honored writer says, with a dry impishness, in a phone interview. "First of all, they think they'...

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The Best Books of the Decade

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Snow, My Name Is Red, The Museum of Innocence, White Teeth, Aleksander Hemon, Orhan Pamuk, Civil Liberties, Dystopian Fiction, Modernization, Margaret Atwood, William Boyd, Multiculturalism, Philip Roth, Oryx and Crake, Netherland, Immigrants, Zadie Smith, Joseph O'Neill, Poetry, Fundamentalism, Terrorism, The Plot Against America, Iraq War, Post-9/11 America, Bush Administration, Racism, Islam, Books News
Anis Shivani

Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."

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