How much attention do you pay to the title of a book?!

[FarleyD]

Sounds like a strange question I know, but I never remember what the books I've read are called. And I should, because the author has undoubtedly gone to some trouble to think of a suitable/fitting title.

i hardly ever read nowadays but when i listened to music, i never knew the name of the song or the album.

I record every thing on goodreads so I know what I've read over the past couple of years.

I do forget sometimes, especially with Kindle books. I forget the title and the author.

But I'm on Library Thing and am logging everything on there, with a brief summary, so I can always go back and check.

If you don't remember the books you have read, that could mean they were forgettable.

It's not so much the stories as the titles and author names.

I'm usually very good with the actual details of the story. Library Thing have a Name That book Group, Goodreads probably has similar, and I was told I'd almost re-written the novel whose name I couldn't remember, I'd put in so much detail.

It's a bit like names and faces, I often remember one but not the other.

I'm pretty good at remembering book titles and covers, and the story but I have terrible trouble remembering people's names and faces. I suppose that says it all about me :o

I can always remember a cover, but less so the title. It's interesting isn't it, that there is a sense that "titles" are often forgotten, which is a shame, because I guess the author (or their publisher) will have gone to a lot of trouble. And it will be the cover that entices me to purchase, never the title, unless it's super quirky like: Clash of Civilisations over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio (set in Rome..) (which is a good read, BTW )

I can generally remember the plots of the novels, just not the titles, and since I guess most titles are significant to the plot in some way, I feel a bit guilty! As tripfiction says, the author/publisher will probably have given the title a lot of thought. Good at remembering people's names though (in real life), rubbish at faces, absolutely dire.

I avoid all fiction with words about food in them after that spate of books called things like "a slice of orange" or "chocolate"

Bleugh I say.