Please Stop: Ridiculously Long Book Titles, the Publishers Who Can't Get Enough of Them, and the Readers Who Can't Stand Them

Posted By Carolyn O'Hara Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 4:13 PM Share

I'm hardly the first to say this, but absurdly long book subtitles are a smallish pet peeve of mine. And so, while I'm loath to throw any unintentional advertising Dick Morris's way, I have to say that his most recent book takes the "please stop" award for longest (and worst) subtitle of the summer:

Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It

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August 13, 2008

At least we know what this

At least we know what this book is about. Now all you need is to read the last chapter and you're done!

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