Ridiculous names in Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

[oni85.livejournal.com]

Lee (f)
Darden (m)
Cross (middle: Algernon) (m)
Aspeth (f)
DeDe (f)
Sin-jun (f)
Martha (f)
Conchita (f)

Comments

[samaside.livejournal.com]

How is Martha ridiculous? It's like the epitome of plain female names. Conchita, also, isn't ridiculous. It's Hispanic. Sin-Jun seems to be Korean to me. So I don't quite understand how they are ridiculous. And, honestly, I've seen way worse names than lee, Darden, and Cross. And I don't think DeDe is that bad if it's a nickname for something longer.

The only one on there that is really ridiculous to me is Aspeth.

[oni85.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Really just meant Darden, Cross and Aspeth.

Ridiculous Names

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

Sin-jun is a phonetic spelling of St. John, which is sometimes pronounced like that.

Can't say that I agree with this post.

Re: Ridiculous Names

[samaside.livejournal.com]

Since it was a female name I was giving the author some credit in hoping that it was not St. John and was more likely an Asian name. There was a Sinjin-dong in Seoul where I lived and there is also a business or two with that name. I figured it was just ignorance towards Asian names.

Re: Ridiculous Names

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

It's a possibility. Read the book a few years back, so didn't remember characters' genders.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Huh? What does this mean?

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

Huh? What's so ridiculous about Lee and Martha and Conchita?

Especially Lee and Martha. They are far from "ridiculous."

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Maybe because Lee is female, and it's usually spelled Leigh for females.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Aspeth is sort of weird...like they combined Aspen with Elspeth. Personally I prefer just Elspeth. Martha is pretty to me. Conchita and DeDe are not my style, but they're names I've seen before. Darden makes me think of Tyler Durden, though.

[invisiblepet.livejournal.com]

I liked Cross's name.

You forgot McGrath Mills. He had two last names, basically.

[oni85.livejournal.com]

I forgot about him! That drove me crazy. :)

And I keep trying to picture Cross. If they make a movie, I can't imagine who they would cast.

[invisiblepet.livejournal.com]

I just imagined very very preppy (ha) and pretty and spoiled teenagers. Like Twilight!

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

I kinda like Cross Algernon.

And, I've heard worse than Aspeth. Sounds like Elizabeth to me.