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[realthog]

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That looks very fine. Yay!

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I think it looks pretty good myself, although I'm still not convinced about the interminably long subtitle -- an American disease, alas. I've decided that in future I'm going to consult only the UK editions of books and thereby save myself about six pages of typing up biblio . . .

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I hate to tell you, but the interminable subtitle is an academic thing here, too.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

the interminable subtitle is an academic thing here, too

Yes, but this isn't an academic book. It's for plebs like me.

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It's a serious book. That counts.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Yes, but so was Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science which was published as exactly that, no more, in the UK. For the US edn, published after some delay, out came the metre-long-subtitle syndrome. Luckily, I read (and bibliographed) the UK edn, heh heh.

I know the academic phenomenon you mention only too well: the Keith Brooke scholarly work to which I recently contributed a chapter on time-travel fiction has a title+subtitle that's about a paragraph and a half long, with the hugely embarrassing result that I can never offhand remember the title of a book to which I've contributed a significant chunk!