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Thread: Improve A Book Title By Removing The Last Letter
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mousethief
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Fathers and Son
Turgenev's examination of gay parenting in 19th century Russia. Original Title: Arkady Has Two Dads
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L'organist
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(may I beg your indulgence for a first letter?)
Omen in Love
in fact, it suits the work rather better than DHL's original maybe? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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mousethief
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King Solomon's Mine
An argument erupts in the harem as to who gets to bed the monarch for the night.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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May I also beg your indulgence to form a singular from a plural?
Bonfire of the Vanity -- A man wakes to find himself in a strange bedroom, and reacts by setting fire to the furnishings.
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jacobsen
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Know your own I
Eysenck moves from examining the airy uplands of intelligence to the deep murky swamps of the inner self.
[ 19. May 2013, 17:31: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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The Horse and his B.O.
Calormene stables can't compare with those in Narnia.
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mousethief
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At the Back of the North Win
George MacDonald examines how fairies determined the outcome of the American Civil War
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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Peter and the Wol
In the book of Prokofiev's Children's Symphony, Christopher Robin invites a Russian boy to spend time with the feathered denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood.
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mousethief
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Hide and See
A DIY guide to Voyeurism
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Pooks
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'A Room with a Vie'
Not by E M Foster, on how to make room for conflict.
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jacobsen
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The Path to Rom
Hillaire Belloc explores the future shock involved in computing.
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The Girl Who Played With Fir
In which Lisbeth Salander retires from computer hacking and retreats to the Swedish forests.
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St. Stephen the Stoned
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Neil Gaiman's shocker, The Graveyard Boo.
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L'organist
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fir
I suspect cleaning might prove so difficult it would be a health hazard ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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St. Stephen the Stoned
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Much Ado About No Thin, the tale of an unsuccessful weightwatcher.
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St. Stephen the Stoned
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Across the River and into the Tree. The best of You've Been Framed.
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AndyB
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The Children of Me, in which PD James' hero Theo Farron finds an alternative way to solve the crisis caused by no children having been born for 16 years.
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Pooks
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The book of Hose from the Bible.
Spiritual guidance on how to get wet.
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AndyB
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What, nothing to do with tights and stockings?
There is always Yann Martel's The Life of P.
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Pooks
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quote:
Originally posted by AndyB:
What, nothing to do with tights and stockings?
There is always Yann Martel's The Life of P.
Heh AndyB. That's because I am leaving the discussion on how to put tights and stockings on correctly to the book of Christopher Wright (not):
Old Testament Ethics for the People of Go
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mousethief
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Ender's Gam
The military recruits a gamer with shapely calves.
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Pooks
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Surprised by Hop
Military training manual - relating the effectiveness of shouting 'Boo!'.
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jacobsen
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Surprised by Jo
C.S.Lewis is pleasantly astonished by a previously mediocre student's exam result, and writes a book about it.
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mousethief
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The Red Ten
Menstruating biblical women play solitaire.
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jacobsen
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The Divine Pit By Gerard Vann OB
Hell is Heaven in disguise....
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mousethief
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Dragonsinge
The Master Harper loses his hair.
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jacobsen
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Dragon's Daw
Given the shortage of fire lizards, birds are taken on board...
[ 05. June 2013, 10:59: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
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mousethief
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The Iceman Comet
Can the coldest superhero prevent the chunk of space debris from striking the Earth?
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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
The Iceman Comet
That is very good indeed! Keep 'em coming.
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mousethief
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The Book of Rut
Jane Hamilton explains what really happened in Boaz' bed.
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jacobsen
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The Book of King
Steven gives the low-down on the rats which infest biblical lands, and how they influence religious thought. Fundies, beware!
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mousethief
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Norwegian Woo
College student Bjørn tries to win the love of a beautiful coed.
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mousethief
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Inherit the Win
Financial advice for children of lottery winners
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mousethief
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There ought to be a way to compile humorous threads of this nature and sell them as Kindle books (or paper books via e.g. Lulu), to support the Organ Fund.
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jacobsen
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The Girls of Slender Mean
Working out the averages on tiny dress sizes.
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AndyB
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The Bean
Rowan Atkinson takes over Bash Street.
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L'organist
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What about Zadie Smith's White Teet???
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L'organist
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... and an enquiry from a German reader
The Bell Ja
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Pooks
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The Abolition of Ma
Prequel to 'Are You My Mother?'
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mousethief
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Ender's Sag
Story of a gamer who wears his trousers beneath his buttocks.
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbi Judith Kerr.
He was Jewish, he was gay: he didn't stand a chance.
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Kelly Alves
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quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
There ought to be a way to compile humorous threads of this nature and sell them as Kindle books (or paper books via e.g. Lulu), to support the Organ Fund.
(maybe one book of all the parody titles and faux Amazon-type synopses and reviews?)
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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jacobsen
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quote:
Originally posted by Charles Had a Splurge on:
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbi Judith Kerr.
He was Jewish, he was gay: he didn't stand a chance.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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jacobsen
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In the psychiatrist's chai by Anthony Clare
Waiter, there's a client in my tea.
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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In a similar, but less sophisticated vein:
Typhoo Joseph Conrad's exploration of the tea rooms of England; a forerunner to The Rutles' Tragical History Tour
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Sir Kevin
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Mob Dick, a detective who investigates unruly crowds
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Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Pooks
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The Sasha Kagan Sweater Boo
On how to make a jumper!
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mousethief
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The Last of the Win
What to do when your lottery money runs out
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Charles Had a Splurge on
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
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