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August 22, 2007 12:31 PM
YAY OR NAY WEDNESDAY
Just yesterday I wrote about a new book with 'club' in the title, and here at Trashionista we've reviewed (brace yourselves!):
The Tuesday Erotica Club, The Yorkshire Pudding Club, The Jane Austen Book Club, The Friday Night Knitting Club, Man of the Month Club, The Dirty Girls' Social Club, The Second Wives' Club and The Adultery Club.
There's also The Sunday Night Book Club, The Naked Drinking Club and - to be a bit different - The Book Group.
So is it time to call time on the word 'club' and ask authors and publishers to think of different titles... (there have to be other ways to bring disparate characters together) or don't you care as long as the story is good?
'Club' in the title - is it a Yay or a Nay... and WHY?
[Don't forget it's Yay or Nay day at Hippyshopper, Bridalwave, Dollymix, Corrie Blog, Catwalk Queen, Kiss and Makeup, The Bag Lady, Shoewawa and Shiny Shiny, too!]
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Posted by DIANE SHIPLEY on August 22, 2007 in American Authors, Book related, British Authors, Debut Novels, Modern Fiction, Yay or Nay? | Permalink
Comments
Nay, just because it's so uninventive. I'm a sucker for those titles that make you turn and look again in the bookstores. "Club" doesn't do it for me. If the story's good though, it really doesn't matter, but it's not something I'd pick up randomly from a bookstore because of its inventiveness.
Posted by: JenniferDawn | August 22, 2007 1:11 PM
Nay.
Going off on a tangent here, it's reminding me of 'The Chocolate Lovers' Club' and the really annoying trend of chick lit getting really obsessed with starting and jumping on demographic caricatures (shopaholics, *insert female relation*-zillas to name a few). It's putting you in mind of these annoying workmates who go on about their WeightWatchers points and see chocolate as 'oooh, naughty!' during your break. Why are they encouraging this sort of stereotype perpetrating? Hate hate haaaate. Can this be a 'Yay or Nay'?
Posted by: Bridgey | August 22, 2007 3:37 PM
Bridget, feel free to write a post for us about this, we'd love that!
(we can pay you in chocolate... ;) )
Posted by: DIANE SHIPLEY | August 22, 2007 5:24 PM
Nay - the fad reminds me of the trend in movies to make multiple sequels to try to cash-in on the popularity (and, therefore $$$) of the original. Puting "club", or any of it's dirivitives (i.e. gang, group, etc.) in the title is just an effort to cash in on the success of the "Ya-Ya Sisterhood" or the "Yada-Yada Prayer Group". Publishers are basically saying "We believe consumers are so stupid that they'll purchase this book just because the cover/title looks/sounds like that of a bestseller." Definite nay!
Posted by: Tami | August 22, 2007 7:39 PM
It depends on the story to me. It's neither a draw nor a turn-off, though I do think the "club" thing is what the "confessions" thing was a few years ago. Remember when almost every book was "Confessions of ..." something?
However, I am working on something that does use the club concept, only, as usual, I'm kind of spoofing it, and it's not exactly a Ya-Ya/Red Hat kind of group ...
Posted by: Shanna Swendson | August 22, 2007 10:11 PM
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