By Kathryn Lilley
I invite you to goof off with me today by playing a game that’s been making the rounds of social media: #RemoveALetterSpoilABook. Here are some fun examples I’ve run across to date:
Silence of the Labs
The Ale of Two Cities
A Wrinkle in Tim
Goosebums
Update: Inspired by some of the comments, adding a few more
Jurassic Ark
THE DAVINCI COD (Credit: Chrissie, Friend of Zone)
Hard Ties (Credit: JS Bell, Zoner At Large)
*MMA (Credit: Phil G, Friend of Zone)
Of Mice And Me (Credit: George S, Friend of Zone)
How about you? Can you think of any other titles to spoil by removing one letter?
Aint Cold Fear (Karin Slaughter’s Faint Cold Fear)
Good to see you back here today, Sue–thanks for playing our little game!
Faint Cold Ear
As a lifelong sufferer of poor circulation, I would keep reading that one, Augustina! ?
I can’t think of one that fits your criterion, Kathryn, but you made me remember a game my sister Kelly and I used to play…twisted movie titles. Her best one was called “Saving Ryan’s Privates.” I can’t recount here, in a G-rated blog, what the plot was exactly but suffice it to say that Steven Spielberg was not beating down our door to film it. But it was funny…
That game sounds like it’d be even more fun, Kris. First thing that comes to my (admittedly warped) mind: When Hairy Met Sally. Wolfman falls in love with his Electrolysist.
The DaVinci Cod
Good one, Chrissie!
I like that one so much I added it as an update!
Don’t forget Norman Mailer’s tale of lovemaking interrupted when the kids unexpectedly barge into the bedroom: The Naked and The Dad.
Lol, I like that one, Mike–thanks for playing! (Would love to find a photo to illustrate that one, but it would violate family guidelines!) ?
1950s TV show about a paunchy gunfighter: Have Gut Will Travel.
Oops, I didn’t read the rules. Changed a letter instead of removing.
We are nothing if not flexible here. Thanks, Debbie!
Well I forgot all else the minute I saw those adorable chocolate lab puppies. 😎
I Have to admit, I came up with this topic just so I could use that picture–thanks for stopping in today, BK!
By Charles Dickes:
The Old Curiosity Hop
Hard Ties
Our Mutual Fiend
Those are inspired, Jim!
The Sound and the Fur.
Inspired by by dog snoring loudly next to me. Wish I could post a pic with this. She is also barking in her sleep.
My cat and dog BOTH snore, remarkably loudly, at three a.m.!
DOM QUIXOTE – Miguel de Cervantes (I’d be surprised if an erotica author hasn’t already used this.)
OF LICE AND MEN – John Steinbeck (This makes me itch.)
LORD OF THE FRIES – William Golding (The story of Ronald McDonald)
And you know I love me some fries, Jordan! p.s. I had to think for a minute about Dom Quixote–I first assumed it referenced champagne, which explains why I could never write erotica, or even romance! ?
Cath 22. The boring story of a man who just made cath 21.
AKA, “Waking up at 3 a.m.” ? Thanks, Jim!
A*S*H
Fahrenheit 45
Great to see you here, George–thanks for playing!
A Visit from the Goo Squad
I Marred a Communist
The Pure Old Baby
Those poor communists–thanks for dropping in, Tru Librarian!
Moby Ick (Moby Dick by Herman Melville)
Ride and Prejudice (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)
Candid (Candide by Voltaire)
Little Omen (Little Women by Louisa May Alcott)
and last but not least…
The Lion, The Itch and the Wardrobe (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis)
okay I’ll stop now 🙂
Excellent spoiled titles, Phil! I especially love Moby Ick…
Of Mice and Me
~or~
Of Ice and Men
(Warning~ I may be back… This is the kind of nonsense that made dinner at the Smiff’s more than simply delicious and nutritious)
🙂
I’m partial to OF MICE AND ME, George–but that’s just ME…? (I just Updated the post to add it with an illustration, thanks for an inspired spoiled title!)
I have one that would win me the prize for this contest, but I don’t have the heart to type it out.
Thoughts that would violate family guidelines, eh? ?
One Sot (surely a refined Englishman like Lee Child would appreciate it)
or maybe Robert Crais, The Money’s Raincoat?
perhaps a story about racism and political abuse on ice? Dennis Lehane’s A Rink Before the War?
Okay, I’ll stop now
“Sot” sounds more Irish to me, Jake! ?
Diary of a Wimpy Id
Inside every Wimp there is an ID raging to break free…?
Great stuff, everyone. 😎
This one will drive grammarians crazy:
For Who the Bell Tolls
The Who thank you, Peg!
“Slow Waltz in Cedar Bed” Robert James Waller
This was Fun!
Okay, that one cracks me up. You rock, Frances!
The Old Ma and the Sea
Kind of takes the macho out of that tale, doesn’t it? Love it!
The Da Vinci Cod
The Hose Whisperer
As a householder whose hose has suddenly developed a permanent kink, I second THE HOSE WHISPERER!
And I had an image of pantyhose & thunder thighs.
Second Win, instead of Dick Francis’s Second Wind
Stealing Tim instead of Leslie Glass’s Stealing Time.
Fun blog.
Sequel to STEALING TIM: WHERE’S TIM? ?
Psych (okay, a movie, but still…)
Rome and Juliet
Jaw
~or~
Aws (cute fish?)
Tar Wars (competing paving companies)
Lack Beauty (NOT Elizabeth Taylor)
The Martian Chronicle (interplanetary news)
The Illustrated Ma (tattooed mother)
(Don’t say I didn’t warn y’all)
🙂
Trying to banish the image of tattooed ma that you just planted in my head–hah!
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Inn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)
-MMA (Emma by Jane Austen)
-East of Den (East of Eden by John Steinbeck)
-Now White (Snow White by Brother Grimm)
LOL this is too much fun 🙂
Love MMA for Austen’s story of a battle for True love–thanks, Phil!
I have to give props to my wife for finding that one. She is a Jane Austen groupie 🙂
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