Metaphorically Speaking..................................

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1tropics
Edited: Dec 13, 2009, 7:35 pm

Truth Comes In Blows - Ted Solotaroff
Philistines At The Hedgerow - Steven Gaines
Blinded By The Right - David Brock
American Vertigo - Bernard-Henri Levy and Charlotte Mandell
Sahara Unveiled - William Langewiesche

2dihiba
Jul 31, 2007, 4:09 pm

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
God is an Englishman by R.F. Delderfield
The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

3dihiba
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6tropics
Jul 31, 2007, 5:26 pm

November Of The Soul - George Colt
The Outlaw Sea - William Langewiesche
Letters From The Hive - Buchmann and Repplier
Vulgarians At The Gate - Steve Allen
The Star Thrower - Loren Eiseley

7tropics
Jul 31, 2007, 5:31 pm

The Oatmeal Ark - Rory Maclean
The Secret Life Of Dust - Hannah Holmes
The Geography Of Nowhere - James Kunstler
Oil On The Brain - Lisa Margonelli
Are We Rome? - Cullen Murphy

8tropics
Jul 31, 2007, 5:39 pm

The Famished Road - Ben Okri
The Road To Reality - Roger Penrose
In The Devil's Garden - Stewart Lee Allen
The Lords Of Poverty - Graham Hancock
Thread Across The Ocean - John Steele Gordon

13LynnB
Aug 1, 2007, 8:50 am

Three Day Road
A Map of Glass
Unfinished Canadian
City of Falling Angels
The World is Flat

In case any of these aren't really metaphors, I will list five more:

Coming Out of the Ice
Dances with Dependency
Bitter Fruit
The Town that Forgot How to Breath
House of Sand and Fog

14tropics
Aug 4, 2007, 8:57 pm

The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
The Fatigue Artist - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Dogs Of God - Pinckney Benedict
Eccentric Islands - Bill Holm
The Lying Days - Nadine Gordimer

17aviddiva
Aug 7, 2007, 10:56 pm

Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny
The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart
The Voice of the City by O Henry
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

19tropics
Aug 21, 2007, 12:37 am

Worst Person In The World - Keith Olbermann
Another Day In The Frontal Lobe - Katrina Firlik
Letting Go Of God - Julia Sweeney
The Twilight Of American Culture - Morris Berman
The Heartless Stone - Tom Zoellner

20tropics
Oct 2, 2008, 1:37 pm

Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Under The Volcano Malcolm Lowry
Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Faces In The Water - Janet Frame

22MarianV
Oct 3, 2008, 11:13 am

The republic of Love Carol Shields
North of hope Jon Hassler
Crossing to safety Wallace Stegner
The pull of the moon Elizabeth Berg
The Prince of Tides Pat conroy

23tropics
Oct 12, 2008, 1:56 pm

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

25tropics
Edited: Dec 13, 2009, 8:08 pm

I'd forgotten about this. Thanks, Varielle, for updating.

Theatre Of Fish - John Gimlette
The Place Where Souls Are Born - Thomas Keneally
Carnivorous Nights - Margaret Mittelbach
Dinosaur In A Haystack - Stephen Jay Gould
Fire From Heaven - Mary Renault

26chinquapin
Jan 6, 2010, 6:34 pm

The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell
The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein
The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz
The Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt

27rolandperkins
Feb 10, 2010, 2:22 am

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy*

Giants in the Earth by Ole E. Rolvaag

For whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway

World so Wide by Sinclaie Lewis

The Ticket that Exploded
by WilliamBurroughs

*Taking Touchstones's word for it as to the author of this peculiar title: one of the few that ever drove me away from a book. It may not be a metaphor, for alll I know, but if not, then I don't know what it is.
The Hemingway and Rolvaag titles are, i assume, metaphorical, though the source of each of them (Bible: Genesis, and John Donne were speaking perfectly straightforwardly.

28rolandperkins
Feb 10, 2010, 7:42 am


For Ogres' Happiness / {Au Bonheur des Ogres by Marguerite Duras

The Vestal Lady on Brattle
by Gregory Corso

the Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Don't Stop the Carnival
by Herman Wouk

Metaphors in titles aren't as easy to think of, as I would have thought. It struck me that Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, George Eliot, and Updike never used a metaphor in a title. (Correct me, if I've forgotten one.)

29rolandperkins
Feb 11, 2010, 10:31 pm

God's Trombones by
Weldon Johnson

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Winter of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck

The Red and the Green*
by Iris Murdoch

The man without Qualities**
by Robert Musil

*Strictly speaking, this usage is metonomy, not metaphor.

** Or, he may have meant this literally for all I know.