Don’t you just want to punctuate that title? I keep looking at it hoping that commas will appear.
I thought this might be okay to listen to and for a while it was. The book is funny in a chick lit kind of way but without the constant references to shopping and shoes. Then it got dull, but I wanted to find out how it ended, so I ditched the audiobook and checked out the hardcover from the library. Neither was really worth my trouble. It’s kind of clever at the beginning, where the unnamed female protagonist (“Her”) goes to
Patricia Marx is a humor writer with a good resume, including work with Saturday Night Live and the Harvard Lampoon. A reviewer on Amazon noted that the book is just like one of those Saturday Night Live skits that starts out funny, but just goes on and on and on…. I think that’s an accurate analysis.
(Book 9, 2008)
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I had lunch with a bunch of local writers yesterday and one of them said to never use commas in your title, that it can hurt sales. (Another one snapped back, "Oh, like Eat, Pray, Love?" But, then we thought about it and realized it has no commas.)
She said her first book had a comma in the title and that hampered people's ability to search for it. I'd never heard that before. I wonder if the publisher of HIM HER HIM AGAIN THE END OF HIM - and of EPL - knew what they were doing when they left the commas out.
Doreen, that is so interesting. I bet that's it. The book cover uses italics to set off a few words in the title, which makes it a bit easier to parse. But only a little.
I never would have thought of the effect commas would have on searching for a book. That's really fascinating. And too bad, because yeah, I really want to add commas to that title!
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