by James Scott Bell
@jamesscottbell
Goodness knows, we need all the fun we can get right now. So in lieu of my usual craft column, I’m declaring today an official TKZ Fun Zone (TKZFZ). Let’s play a game.
The name of the game is Less Interesting Books. You take a well known title and change a word or two to come up with a not-so-compelling alternative. For example:
That’s all there is to it. One rule: One title per comment (that way if someone wants to give you a high five, they can). If you come up with another title, just leave another comment. Clear?
Okay, boys and girls, let’s play!
I’ll start with one of yours, Mr. B, if I may…
Try the Veal
?
(note to self: proofread)
I’m going with movies. Me breaking them rules?
Raiders of the lost ballpark
Pulp Friction
Star wars: The Empire Lays back
So sorry, Mr. Bell, somehow forgot to go through the rules. I blame Corona.
All Is forgiven.
Just wash your hands…
The Secretary of the Ring
Ty Dying
Ha!
Gulliver’s Nap
Ha ha That sounds particularly thrilling. Not! 😉
Look Homeward, Slob
As I Lay Crying
In my Faulkner seminar in grad school, I called this As I Lay Half Dead.
As I Lay Snoozing
All the King’s Insecurities
Gone with the Soup
The Clamor of the Lambs
What a cool way to let the juices flow… 🙂
The Telltale Gallbladder
A Tale of Two Planets
And one more…I’d better stop…
The Hunchback of Mississippi State
You’re on fire!
No Laughing Bladder
Works on many levels.
The Iceman Melteth
Super Street Signs
The Key to Unleashing the Power and Precision of the Invention and Creativity of the Wonderful and Time Saving, Best Selling, Can’t-Put-It-Down, Can’t-Live-Without-It, Auto-Pilot, Self-Driving Story
Yes!
The Dimming
The Catcher in the Oatmeal.
Shortstop in the Rye~
The Catcher in the Crabgrass
hahaha
1959
A Tree Grows in My Backyard. (Ok, I’ll stop now.)
It’s hard to stop…Lonesome Eagle
Lonesome Turkey Buzzard
I’m all in on the fun, especially now. Here goes.
Eight Million Ways to Fry
Although some fry cooks may find this interesting!
Romeo and Gillette
The Big Seep
The Big Sheep…
Stranger in a Strange Band
One Hundred Years of Constipation
One Hundred Years of Solitaire
The Maltese Airstrip
Little Men
Frankenbeermug
Little Habits Everywhere
or
Litter Fires Everywhere
A Farewell to Legs
Priceless, Mr. B!
A So Long to Arms…?
Wart and Peas
The Little Blintz
Cheesy~! ?
The sequel … 🙂
Gray Beauty
50 Shades of Whey
Pride and Presupposition.
Ha! Better than any I was coming up with…
That was a good one!
Lord of the Fries
Atlas Sat
Atlas Hugged
Even better.
The Grapes of Annoyance.
She’s Probably There by P. J. Perish
Ha! A whole new plot hatcheth!
The Miserable Wives of Windsor
Now that’s a play I’d like to see…or a reality show.
Shakespeare was clairvoyant.
Portrait of An Artist As A Lazy Man.
(The Dale Ivan Smith story this morning)
Isn’t procrastination wonderful?
It has its virtues 😀
Selfie of the Artist as a Young Man
Procrastination’s Complaint, by Philip S. Sloth
A tip of the hat to Jim for inspiring this one.
The Association of the Ring: being the first part of The Secretary of the Ring
The Two Towels
The Big Cat, the Hag and the Dresser
By Edgar Allan Poop
The Duck
The Telltale Gizzard
Lunch in the Rue Morgue
The Telltale Gizzard! lmao
The Old Woman on the Train
The Girl with the Stick -on Butterfly Tattoo
Interview with the Politician
Okay, is that too close to vampire?
I know they both can suck us dry.
I needed these. Thank you everyone.
The Flab
(Grisham)
Here’s one for JSB..
Romeo’s Mallet
??
The Sand Box by Frank Herbert
Red Yawn
The Hunt for Red Bull
13 Flowers
The Multiplicand of All Fears
The Division of All Fears…
Billy-Bob Reacher
Alex Cross’s Deposition
The Cat in the Beanie
One more…
They Came to Peoria
The Studebaker Lawyer
Ha. I even remember Studebaker.
If Mickey Haller had stockpiled Studebakers instead of Lincolns, my friend would kill in order to be his client and sit in one.
Dead Man’s Schlep
Bury My Heart at Dislocated Knee
Somewhat Eccentric Thomas
The Old Man and the Pond
Of Mites and Men
M*U*S*H*
Catch a Couple-a Dozen
The Buns of Navarrone
Dr. Maybe
Tom’s Lawyer
Nathan’s Walk, indeed . . . Thanks for the nod.
True Grits
True Snit
Catcher in the Oats
Catcher in the Bourbon
Anne of Purple Gables
Anne of Green Tables
Conan the PC Violator
Conan the Librarian
Spamlet
From Here to Maternity
I could read these all day!
Me, too 🙂 So much fun!
It looks like I have been ~ ?
Of Lice and Men
Batch 22
Lunch on the Orient Express
The Shortest Day
The Sun Also Burns
50 Sheets of Gray
Beige Harvest
How to Win Checkers and Influence People
Celsius 451
*Non US reprint of course
Fahrenheit For 51
Something Silly This Way Comes
Bray Radberry’s Martian Times
Dandelion Whine
Foundation and Umpire
Lord of the Bracelets
A Tan and Sandy Bathing Suit
Dharma Hobos
Tar and Remembrance
Farewell, My Homely
Le OK
The Old Man and the Puddle
Vegetable Farm
The Schlage Key
It’s just too easy.
Rosenkrantz and Poopsie are Dead
The Hangar Games
A Clockwork Clock
In Harm’s Hay
The Long So-Long
The Visible Man
The Postman Always Stumbles Twice
Stutter Island
Voyage to the Bottom of the Drain
For Whom The Bell Tintinnabulates
Portnoy’s Grouse
The Gang That Couldn’t Poot Straight
A London Planetree Grows In Brooklyn
The Maltese Turkey Vulture
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sects, But Were Afraid to Ask
A Tale of one City.
Silence of the Man
Love reading the comments!
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