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

Tue, 08/12/2008 - 4:13pm

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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