tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post8808321878341374498..comments2023-12-28T04:41:50.326-05:00Comments on Judge a Book by its Cover: It's Expository Title Time!Miss Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05075664250796458409noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-59209683907388025312008-06-08T08:01:00.000-04:002008-06-08T08:01:00.000-04:00I check in romance novels at work. I have determi...I check in romance novels at work. I have determined that they only have 30 working titles, they just change the nationality of the man, the marriage status of the woman, and say if she is a virgin, captive, mistress, or all three.Mari Miniatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14826580849818642804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-79894705684831157242008-05-29T17:53:00.000-04:002008-05-29T17:53:00.000-04:00Russians Regret Their Marital Decisions by Leo Tol...Russians Regret Their Marital Decisions by Leo Tolstoy<BR/><BR/>Gullible King Misplaces His Trust, Leads to Disaster by William Shakespeare<BR/><BR/>War Hero Overcomes Obstacles to Return Home by Homer<BR/><BR/>Invisibility Leads to Insanity by H.G. Wells<BR/><BR/>Subjugated Citizens Fail to Defy Unstoppable Fascist Government by George Orwell<BR/><BR/>Future People are Eaten by Other Future People by H.G. Wells<BR/><BR/>Ancient Evil is Awoken by H. P. Lovecraft<BR/><BR/>Neurotic Superheroes Fail to Prevent Genius from Destroying New York and Averting Nuclear War by Alan Moore<BR/><BR/>Aliens Govern Evolution by Arthur C. Clark<BR/><BR/>Scientists Discover that Artificial Intelligence Has Unprecedented Quirks by Isaac Asimov<BR/><BR/>Misanthrope Makes Himself and Others Suffer by Dostoevsky<BR/><BR/>Barbarian Kills Things, Has Sex by Robert E. Howard<BR/><BR/>Jesus Had a Kid by Dan Brown<BR/><BR/>Unexpected Hero Defeats Evil by Fantasy Author<BR/><BR/>Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-72393186881951603012008-05-29T17:11:00.000-04:002008-05-29T17:11:00.000-04:00Evil wizard tries to return and kill kid, kid foil...Evil wizard tries to return and kill kid, kid foils him<BR/>Evil wizard tries to return and kill kid, kid foils him<BR/>Prisoner falsely accused of trying to kill kid, kid saves him<BR/>Evil wizard returns and tries to kill kid, kid escapes<BR/>Evil wizard tries to kill kid, kid escapes<BR/>Kid tries to kill evil wizard, evil teacher kills good teacher<BR/>Evil wizard takes over government, evil teacher was a double agent, kid kills evil wizardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-59415275158799176172008-04-11T11:56:00.000-04:002008-04-11T11:56:00.000-04:00Pompous People Withdraw From And Thus Destroy Civi...Pompous People Withdraw From And Thus Destroy Civilization On Purpose.<BR/><BR/>One of Absent Father's Four Daughter Dies, The Rest Get Married.<BR/><BR/>Melodramatic Prince Goes Insane, Murders Stepfather.<BR/><BR/>Snarky Englishwoman First Hates, Then Marries Standoffish Zillionaire.<BR/><BR/>I Get Shipwrecked, But Learn The Joys of Enslaving Others.<BR/><BR/>Russia Gets Invaded, But Fights Back as The Aristocrats Have Affairs, For 1000 Pages.<BR/><BR/>I Screwed The Preacher So Everyone Thinks I Am A Whore.<BR/><BR/>Zealous Puritans Make Poor Judgements and Hang Innocent People.<BR/><BR/>It Turns Out That They Kill The Lottery Winner!<BR/><BR/>Watch My Portrait Age As I Ruin Lives!<BR/><BR/>French Spinster Destroys Her Family Because She Always Hated Them.<BR/><BR/>The Alien Conquerors Get Sick and Die.<BR/><BR/>Emo Poet Loves A Heartless Bitch Who Lives On A Moor. <BR/><BR/>Hooker Turns Thief, Then Marries Her Brother In Virgina.<BR/><BR/>I Thought Breadfruit Is Important, So My Crew Threw Me Overboard.<BR/><BR/>Loser Dies So His French Lookalike Can Live And Get Married.Rich Boyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10864980536020086411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-89343951120888380872008-03-28T21:18:00.000-04:002008-03-28T21:18:00.000-04:00"The Pig is Stalin" actually sounds like a killer ..."The Pig is Stalin" actually sounds like a killer YA dramatic novel title. No idea what it's about, though. <BR/><BR/>My contributions: <BR/><BR/>Some Guys Get Drunk And High And They Travel A Lot (Jack Kerouac)<BR/><BR/>Psychokinetic Girl Really Has A Bad Prom Night (Stephen King)<BR/><BR/>Find Out Why Everyone Thinks The Number 42 Is So Funny (Douglas Adams)<BR/><BR/>Aparently The Antichrist Isn't Such A Bad Guy After All (Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman)<BR/><BR/>Just Because People Are Scary Doesn't Make Them Evil (Harper Lee)Freezairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01438889286182465118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-2560729691019775182008-03-18T21:39:00.000-04:002008-03-18T21:39:00.000-04:00"Who the fuck has any idea?" by James Joyce"Who the fuck has any idea?" by James JoyceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-3189596945275929922008-01-14T18:24:00.000-05:002008-01-14T18:24:00.000-05:00Three brothers talk about religion and philosophy ...Three brothers talk about religion and philosophy and religion and philosophy and religion and philosophy and religion and philosophy and just so no one gets bored, the dad gets murdered, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11227205049799828956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-27065907015939103402008-01-07T17:59:00.000-05:002008-01-07T17:59:00.000-05:00Well-Known Senator Foils Foul Fiend (The Devil and...Well-Known Senator Foils Foul Fiend (The Devil and Daniel Webster)<BR/><BR/>Guy Kills Pregnant Girlfriend So He Can Marry Rich Socialite but Winds Up on Death Row Anyway <B>(An American Tragedy)</B><BR/><BR/>Roger Ackroyd is Killed: The Narrator Did It <B>(The Murder of Roger Ackroyd)</B><BR/><BR/>A Steel Magnolia, a Gunrunner, and the Entire Civil War <B>(Gone With the Wind)</B><BR/><BR/>Nobody Lives Happily Ever After <B>(Wuthering Heights)</B><BR/><BR/>Over on The Lunatic Cafe for Romance Readers, we did a whole thread on The Worst Romance Title Ever (making it up as we went along): <BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/29zyqbtalpiannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13978075304795724185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-79843115615371683772008-01-05T03:26:00.000-05:002008-01-05T03:26:00.000-05:00It Really Sucks That I Have No Arms, Legs, Or Face...It Really Sucks That I Have No Arms, Legs, Or Face (by Dalton Trumbo)<BR/><BR/>The Minister had Adulterous Relations and the Woman is Blamed (by Nathaniel Hawthorne)<BR/><BR/>Some Witches Make Predictions And It All Comes True (by William Shakespeare)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12377153864265739972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-59229705736431720602008-01-04T15:06:00.000-05:002008-01-04T15:06:00.000-05:00I Made A Big Monster And It Strangled All My Frien...I Made A Big Monster And It Strangled All My Friends (Frankenstein)<BR/><BR/>Peace And War And Peace And War And Peace (War And Peace)<BR/><BR/>The Columbo Pilot Episode Where Raskolnikov Kills The Pawnbroker <BR/><BR/>I Fell Hard For A Married Man (Jane Eyre)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-26537959843136984442008-01-03T17:01:00.000-05:002008-01-03T17:01:00.000-05:00Holden Caulfield Gets Kicked Out Of Prep School An...Holden Caulfield Gets Kicked Out Of Prep School And Wanders Around New York City (A Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger) Wendy, Jill, And The Other Kids Make Fun Of Linda For Being Fat (Blubber by Judy Blume) Newland Archer Is Engaged To May But Gets A Crush On Ellen(The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-45216467163130177322008-01-02T22:03:00.000-05:002008-01-02T22:03:00.000-05:00These Two Kids Try to Kill God (But the Armored Be...These Two Kids Try to Kill God (But the Armored Bears Are the Coolest Part Anyways)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-51585808037832462982008-01-02T11:08:00.000-05:002008-01-02T11:08:00.000-05:00The third book is the start of the Greek Billionai...The third book is the start of the Greek Billionaire's apostrophe trilogy.<BR/>Book 2: The Greek's billionaire baby revenge.<BR/>Book 3: The Greek billionaire baby's revenge<BR/><BR/>If the Italian's a billionaire, why does he have to wait until Xmas to buy Viagra?<BR/><BR/>American (high school) literature classics:<BR/> Preacher knocks up single lady<BR/> White and black hicks float down big river<BR/> Waiting to bury mother's stinking corpseSnowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039997156492900954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-39527183007058671402008-01-01T21:44:00.000-05:002008-01-01T21:44:00.000-05:00Old Man 0, Sea 1A Tale of London and ParisAlice Ha...Old Man 0, Sea 1<BR/><BR/>A Tale of London and Paris<BR/><BR/>Alice Has a Dream<BR/><BR/>Alice Has Another Dream, This Time About Chess<BR/><BR/>The Danish Prince Who Came Home for His Father's Funeral and Boy Was That Ever a Bad Ideakostiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421321158173999309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-68661351306170418132008-01-01T17:54:00.000-05:002008-01-01T17:54:00.000-05:00Fantasy Races agree to Cooperate in a Ring Destruc...Fantasy Races agree to Cooperate in a Ring Destruction Quest<BR/>---<BR/>Magical Wardrobe Sends Children to a Fantasy Land<BR/>---<BR/>Jewish Girl Hides from NazisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-80248034538239712702008-01-01T16:53:00.000-05:002008-01-01T16:53:00.000-05:00Rich swarthy guys are in. Who knew?My tries:Billy ...Rich swarthy guys are in. Who knew?<BR/><BR/>My tries:<BR/><BR/>Billy Pilgrim, Ex-POW, Comes Unstuck in Time by Kurt Vonnegut<BR/><BR/>Why War Sucks by Joseph Heller<BR/><BR/>Big Phony Rich Guy by F. Scott Fitzgeraldyellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-45954098684929354402008-01-01T12:46:00.000-05:002008-01-01T12:46:00.000-05:00Senior Citizen Goes Fishing, Comes Back Empty-hand...Senior Citizen Goes Fishing, Comes Back Empty-handed.<BR/><BR/>Persian King Doesn't Kill his Wife (short stories).<BR/><BR/>Omnipotent Being's Baby Revenge.<BR/><BR/>World War 1 and Journalists Suck.<BR/><BR/>(Granted, the last one is kinda obscure.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13252539304661485071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-63520413941455950612007-12-31T19:48:00.000-05:002007-12-31T19:48:00.000-05:00On a semi-related note: I always hated the title o...On a semi-related note: I always hated the title of the children's book, "My Brother Sam is dead." (SPOILER) The climax of the book is that Sam dies. Like, they spend the whole book trying to stop it, when, in fact, we know he's going to die because the title of the book says so. <BR/>That book won awards, too.Charles Jurrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00222749064232908583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-60761441946221234662007-12-31T03:37:00.000-05:002007-12-31T03:37:00.000-05:00The Persecuted Advertising Man with a Jewish Herit...The Persecuted Advertising Man with a Jewish Heritage and the Artist (as a Young Man) and Also Everybody in Dublin<BR/><BR/>The Guy that Went Crazy and Thought He Was a Knight and Tried to Help Everybody and Failed Like 23 Times<BR/><BR/>The Star-Crossed Lovers that Killed ThemselvesM. Garrett Steelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10684710960681283693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055640445288546798.post-50203409446273910632007-12-31T00:26:00.000-05:002007-12-31T00:26:00.000-05:00Dad Goes Crazy, Hunts Family in Colorado Hotel (Th...Dad Goes Crazy, Hunts Family in Colorado Hotel (The Shining by Stephen King)<BR/><BR/>Oswald Kills Kennedy (Libra by Don DeLillo)<BR/><BR/>Orphan Finds Out He’s Wizard (Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling)<BR/><BR/>Jerk Learns True Meaning of Christmas (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)<BR/><BR/>The Pig is Stalin (Animal Farm by George Orwell)Bryan R. Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14642701156451408732noreply@blogger.com