That's the hilarious title of a book I am currently reading. It lists our many misconceptions and then proceeds to clear them up. Ranges from silly to the sensible. For example, How many wives did Henry the Eighth have? Apparently he married quite a few and then annulled the marriages, which means they "never happened', reducing the actual number by a few. Many such gems of knowledge that's a must for all. Still reading it, and will therefore update all you poor souls.
One such book I read a long time ago was A book of Insults I think compiled by : Louis Safian. It had delightful insults. It was a good conversational tool for a long time when I was in college. At least 25% books sell on their titles alone. For example, Why Men Don't Look at Maps, and Women Cry or something of that sort. Or, Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars etc. Blink and The World is Flat are also good titles.
As for movies, people are so short of titles that they keep using old ones over and over. Like Humraaz, or Khamoshi. The other trick is to use songs from old films to give you titles, like Hum Hain Rahi Pyar ke, or Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jayaenge (originally a song from Chor Machaye Shor). Ghajini was unusual, because it uses the villain's name as its title.
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This encourages me to pick up some book :) and literally the first thing that attracts is the title, reminded me of catchy 'ishqiya', 'kaminey'
So we will judge a book by its cover (title):))
Sure it does attract, Beyond. All James Bond films have very good titles-Dr.No, Live and Let Die and so on.
Paddy,check out the sales of makeup cosmetics and stuff and the answer is all too obvious in us humans too.
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