Titles often don't indicate what the book is about. The important thing is that it be intriquing or spark interest in looking inside. If that title doesn't do it for you (meaning anyone reading this post, including nomad) feel free to say so. That would help me get a feel for what kinds of reactions it elicits.
My original title was The House on Hurlburt Road. It's the name of the road I grew up on. I eventually realized that the title wasn't zippy enough and didn't mean anything to anyone but me. Unfortunately, when A Long Strange Trip occurred to me, I found there were a few others, as seen on the link in my first post. I like it, but would not want to impede on other's territory if there's some sort of rule about repeating titles, nor would I want my book to be effected by the sales ratings of the others books (none of which look like they were very successful with readers other than Rolling Stone Magazine fans, for example.)
If anyone would like to make suggestions, it's a memoir about growing up in a hippie family. There was a lot of indiscriminate sex, psychodelic drug use, and other hippie lifestyle kinds of activities. Part of the drug use involved chemical engineer dad manufacturing acid and mescaline in the basement lab, and we kids were sometimes used as guinea pigs. We also moved a few times so the "trip" part of the title could also refer to that. However, we were not Deadheads per se. (More like Jimi Hendrix sort of hippies. I don't think we even had one Grateful Dead album.) The book has a lot of other forms of child abuse in it as well. What started out as a redemptive book has morphed into two books. This one is about what my life was like during those years, and ends with me leaving. The second one (working title Home Coming) is about redemption and recovery, and includes chapters about my therapy, work in the abuse recovery movement, becoming a therapist, making a family, etc.
Thank you in advance for any constuctive criticisms and suggestions on how I can improve my title.