It is my pleasure to introduce a new feature on TKZ, Procrastination Day. A time to get away from that novel you're writing, or that task around the house you've meaning to finish, and get down to some serious wasting of time.
Forget Spider Solitaire. Put away Endless Zombie Rampage. Let's use our literary lights instead.
Let's play the Less Interesting Books Game.
I found out about this one on Thursday, via Twitter. I was checking in and saw the hashtag #lessinterestingbooks. And it was exploding. I started in and couldn't stop. For an hour I was chugging out less interesting book titles along with what seemed like a million other procrastinators.
Here's how to play: You take a well known book title and tweak it a bit so it comes out as "less interesting" than the original. Here is a sampling of what I came up with in the heat of the moment:
Paradise Misplaced
The Puce Letter
The Naked and the Bruised
As You Consider ItThe Seven Pillows of Wisdom
Kon Tiki Barber
Mein Kramp
Get the idea?
Now it's your turn. The only rule is: One title per comment. If you want to leave another title, leave another comment.
So what books sound a little less interesting to you?
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Bury My Heart at Dislocated Knee
Mediocre Expectations
The Kite Saunterer
The Executioner's Operatic Solo
Oliver Bunny-hop
Crime and Suspended Sentence
Pillow Fight and Peace
Pride and Negative Predisposition
Gourd of the Flies
Boysenberry Finn
Drifted Off with the Slight Breeze
Chicken Coops of Madison County
Last of the Mulligans
James and the Oversized Prune
The girl with the Hello Kitty tattoo
Blathering Heights
The Cat, the Magician, and the Closet
Looking for a Submarine in the Ocean Someplace
The Bourne Guy That Can't Remember Anything
Pride And a Strong Dislike
Try Injured
Nathan's Stroll
If you're interested in where the hashtag came from, check out this blog post by the author who accidentally started it.
http://helpineedapublisher.blogspot.com/
Fresh Wounds
Negative Attitude Without a Face
Plot and Loosely Outlined
Uncomfortable Workout
The Maltese Crow
Writer's Garage Sale
Hello and thanks to Rebecca for linking to my blogpost about how I accidentally started the game ;)
The one that started it all was Lord of the Files.
My favourite is Love in the Time of Man-Flu
The Girl Who Photographed the Hornet's Nest.
Thanks, Rebecca. And Nicole, proud to have you here. Thanks for giving us what Paul Harvey used to call "the rest of the story." And aren't you the author of:
Blame My Pancreas
The Bananas of Wrath
Lord of the Gnats
The Eh Gatsby
(I'm on tour. Killing time is required.)
The long nap
Abraham Lincoln: Bunny Killer
Heart of Blahness
I, Mannequin
Tarzan, Lord of the Vegetable Garden
The Silence of the Cows.
Harry Potter and the Order of Chinese Food.
Harry Potter and the Stone He Found on the Playground
Paws.
The House of Two Gables
The Da Vinci Can
Around the World in 1,357 Days
Whithering Heights
The Hunt for Beige October
The Bourne Again
John Carter of Hoboken, NJ
Anne of This One Place named for it's Architectural Design
Rather Smaller Average Women.
There and Back Again, A Forgetful Shoppers Tale
James - ha! I am indeed the author of Blame My Pancreas (aka Brain)!AnoN weber, I didn't write War and Peas. or Cold Comfort Allotment.
Great blog, btw. I must come here more often.
The Old Man and the Senile
Brisk, Perhaps Even Chilly Mountain
Lonesome Dove Bar
Of Rice and Hens
A Chinese Chef's Adventure
Pillows of the Earth
Clear and Pleasant Danger
The Spy Who Came In From the Outdoors Because He Was Not Properly Dressed For The Weather Which Was Relatively Cold Compared To What He Was More Accustomed To
Whorls of the Worlds
Alien Fingerprints On Earth
No Thank You, I'm As Full As A Tick Games
The Life of Square
The Grapes of Ambivalence
The Taming of the Gopher
The Agony and the Exultation
Of Rats and of Men
The Sun Also Sets
The Maltese Pigeon
The Filler Inside Me
7,999,999 Ways To Die
Devil In A Blue Sleeveless T-Shirt
The Lion, The Witch and the Bathrobe
The Avon Lady Always Rings Twice
Portnoy's Complaint Department
To Bake a Mockingbird
A Tale Of Two Counties
Catch-22.4
Not Gone Anywhere, Baby, Not Gone Anywhere
The Bridge of San Luis Obispo
I, The Bailiff
Alice In Cleveland
The Fun Games
Tell Someone
The Sit
Lady Chatterly's Boyfriend
Somewhat Eccentric Thomas
Drably Dozing Dexter
A Series of Sad Stuff Happening
The Seconds-Minutes-Hours-Etcetera Contraption
The Pointy Metal Medieval Weapon in the Stone
The Little Boy of the Royal Status of Being a Monarch's Son
Joe "To Bake a Mockingbird??"
I have that cookbook!!
A Streetcar Named Interest
The Lord of the Earrings
Moby Tom
Gone With The Rain
my favorite childhood book was
Kon Tacky, by Hyerdahl
Charlie and the Bologna Factory
Roger's Collection of Synonyms
Illegal Coffee Beans :)
Winter's Cartilage
Gone With The Wine
War And Negotiated Settlement
In Room Temperature Blood
COMMENT: Such collective brilliance! Think what could be accomplished if we weren't all procrastinating...
I'll submit something. Tomorrow.
Discontent on the Bounty
The Slough Tales
The Loud American
The Shearing of the Lambs
Crime and Parole
Pride & Prejudice & Middle-Managers
Unclear and Not Very Imminent Danger
IN CHILLED BLOOD
YOUR AS SICK PARK
20,000 Inches Under the Lake
The Kama Chameleon
Raise a Shipwreck
THE DA VINCI COMB
Waiting for the Dough...
A Fistful Of Dimes
Jim, whaddya mean we're "procrastinating"? We're working hard at writing.
BTW, how about Don't Try Dying?
Or The Friends Of Eddie Cantor.
COMMENT: And the hits just keep on coming! I bow to the Mike Dennis work ethic!
For the kids: Ambivalent George
The Mouse in the Blouse
Isthmus of the Green Mollusks
Alice in Walmart
The Brothers Smith
Jane's Heir
Dawn Quixote
The Cat Who Did Nothing
Sometimes a Great Lotion
The Executioner's Thong
Le Mortgage d'Arthur
Call of the Mild
Angela's Rashes
Portrait of the Blogger as a Twilight Fan
The Dark Night
Hey, welcome to you last entries. Nice!
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