For a bit of fun on a rainy Friday: Yesterday twitter was inundated by clever folk using the #lessinterestingbooks hashtag. How’s it work (for you twitter uninclined)? Take the title of a famous book and twist it around into a blander/funnier/less interesting rendition!
Here are some of the ones I came up with:
The Sword of Sha Na Na by Terry Brooks
Of Mucus and Jam by Stina Leicht
Canadian Gods by Neil Gaiman
Kinda Quiet and Sorta Far Away by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Middle-aged Man’s War by John Scalzi
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azerbaijan by J.K. Rowling
Lord of the Files by William Golding
The Old Man and the Pee by Ernest Hemingway
My favourite:
East of Aidan by John Steinbeck
And, to cap things off, Sam Sykes‘ favourite:
The Crystal Shart by R.A. Salvatore
So, I thought it’d fun to open the floor to you, my lovely readers, and see what your collective wit can come up with! Post away with your favourite #lessinterestingbooks in the comments section below, or let me know some of your favourites that you stumbled across yesterday on twitter!
Fun topic. The two I came up with:
The Moon is an Annoying Cousin by Robert Heinlein
The Meta-neuroses by Ovid
Well, I was riffing on Harry Connolly’s “The Spy Who Came in to Warm His Hands” and came up with “The Spy Who Came Down with a Cold.” Does that count?
My favorite of my own was probably “Restaurant at the End of the Stripmall,” but my favorite of the day came from @damienk: “The 5 People You Meet in WalMart.”
That was a fun meme. :)
My attempt “Girl with the Daddy Tattoo” got retweeted a couple times, so it couldn’t have been too bad.
Ender’s Chores.
Spell right by Blake Charlton
The Unremarkable by Peter Orullian
Among Thrifters by Douglas Hulick
Little, Not Quite So Little by John Crowley
Memories of Ice Cream by Steven Erikson
The Crystal Shart, oh lord. I shouldn’t have read that while drinking water.
Here’s one:
Girl with a Pearl Thong by Tracy Chevalier
Love Memories of Ice Cream xD
Actually, Canadian Gods could be very interesting…
Memories of Ice Cream is awesome!
Here’s a few:
Lord Foul’s Bake Sale by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Voyage of the Dumb Tweeter by C. S. Lewis
Nine Princes in Ambergris by Roger Zelazny
Lord Valentine’s Sandcastle by Robert Silverberg
Outhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
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“The Left Ham of God’ by Paul Hoffman
‘The Rather Darkly Complected Company’ by Glen Cook
‘The Stairs My Destination’ by Alfred Bester
‘The Ponce’ by Niccolo Machiavelli
and of course
‘Moderate Expectations’ by Charles Dickens
“Whale of Time” by Robert Jordan
The Spade Itself – Joe Abercrombie.
The Man Who Counts Change by Poul Anderson
Flesh Man by Neal Asher
Recession by Iain M. Banks
The Washing Machine by Jack Vance
The Healthy Dog: A Tale of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach by Steven Erikson
The Truck Lords by David Drake
Renovation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Dialysis by Greg Egan
A Dirigible in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Man-Kzin Arms Reduction Conferences by Larry Niven, et al.
A Game of Checkers by George R.R. Martin
The Engines of Ford by Jack McDevitt
Hill by Frank Herbert
Lord of the Piles
William Golding
The Desert Pear – Peter V. Brett
The Girl Who Played with Tires – Stieg Larsson
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Patrick Rothfuss – The Averagely Intelligent Man’s Issues
Cherie Priest – Cartilage Wiggler
Lord of the Blings – J.R.R Tolkien
Catching Mice – Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter and the Neverending Hype – J.K. Rollings
The Stiff Remains – Richard Morgan
The Chicken that Came Before – R. Scott Bakker
A Game of Bastards; Clash of Butcher’s boys; Storm of Egos; A Feast for Sundays; A Dance of Zombies – George RR Martin
The Bone Daddy – Steven Erikson
The Crippled Pedestrian – Steven Erikson
The Surgery of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
The Briar Bishop – Greg Keyes
The Taxonomy of Al-Rassan – Guy Gavriel Kay
Shaman’s Conundrum – Robin Hobb
Farenheit911 – Ray Bradbury
Fevre High – GRRM
The Book of the New Rapture – Gene Wolfe
The Tasty Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
The Lord of the Muppets – J RR Tolkien
The Quarantine of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
Hellhole – Kevin J Anderson & Brian Herbert (oh wait…)
The Female Singular Nominative Pronoun by H Rider Haggard.
The Hangnailed God – Steven Erikson
A Game of Throes – George RR Martin
The Bay of Dogs – Brandon Sanderson