{"id":6197,"date":"2011-05-27T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2011-05-27T09:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:03:38","slug":"i-ask-you-less-interesting-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/news\/i-ask-you-less-interesting-books\/","title":{"rendered":"I Ask You | Less Interesting Book Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/200px-sword_of_shanana_hardcover2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/200px-sword_of_shanana_hardcover2.jpg\" alt=\"The Sword of Sha Na Na by Terry Brooks\" title=\"The Sword of Sha Na Na by Terry Brooks\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6201\" \/><\/a>For a bit of fun on a rainy Friday: Yesterday twitter was inundated by clever folk using the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search?q=%23lessinterestingbooks\">#lessinterestingbooks<\/a> hashtag. How&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the ones I came up with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Sword of Sha Na Na<\/strong> by Terry Brooks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of Mucus and Jam<\/strong> by Stina Leicht<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian Gods<\/strong> by Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kinda Quiet and Sorta Far Away<\/strong> by Jonathan Safran Foer<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Middle-aged Man&#8217;s War<\/strong> by John Scalzi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azerbaijan<\/strong> by J.K. Rowling<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lord of the Files<\/strong> by William Golding<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Old Man and the Pee<\/strong> by Ernest Hemingway<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favourite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>East of Aidan<\/strong> by John Steinbeck<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, to cap things off, <a href=\"http:\/\/samsykes.com\">Sam Sykes<\/a>&#8216; favourite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Crystal Shart<\/strong> by R.A. Salvatore<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I thought it&#8217;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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a bit of fun on a rainy Friday: Yesterday twitter was inundated by clever folk using the #lessinterestingbooks hashtag. How&#8217;s it work (for you twitter uninclined)? 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