Tuesday, July 2, 2013

#bookswithalettermissing

I am rarely one to be at the forefront of trends, even if they are just hashtags trending on Twitter. But today I stumbled across one of the more amusing Twitter trends with the perfect moniker #bookswithalettermissing. The concept is simple: take a famous novel title, remove one letter, and come up with a hilarious spoof of the original story.

Now that would be amusing enough. But thanks to the magic that is Photoshop, Twitter user @darth created hilarious cover art to go with the newly titled books sans one letter. I was unable to find @darth's original post, but even a cursory stroll through the #bookswithalettermissing will lead you to the complete collection of his cover art. Here are a few of my favorite, each of which I have actually read the original novel:






So, inspired by all this hilarity, I thought I would sit down and see if I could come up with my own #bookswithalettermissing. Here's what I came up with over a few short minutes:
  • A(n) Ale of Two Cities
  • The Ale of Peter Rabbit
  • Lack Beauty
  • Harlot(te)'s Web
  • The Great Gas By
  • The Hack
  • Dun
  • Little Hose on the Prairie

Alright, I admit it, I cheated a little with some of those. Still, it is a fun exercise. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this random musing. See you next time.

3 comments:

  1. Fun stuff. Let's see what my bookshelf yields:

    "The Ion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"
    by CS Lews

    Narnia goes sci-fi!

    "The Book of Lost Ales"
    by JR Tolkien

    Lost! My precious ales is lost!

    "Of Mice and Me"
    by Jon Steinbeck

    Steinbeck rips off Kafka, makes anthropomorphism cuter, wins contract with Disney.

    "The Rapes of Wrath"
    by Jon Steinbeck

    Steinbeck loses contract with Disney.

    "On the Rod"
    by Jack Kerac

    I first met Rod...

    "Far and Loathing in Las Vegas"
    by Hunter S. Thomson

    Buy the ticket, take the Rid. For the bugs all over this muck.

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  2. In Cod Blood. Groundbreaking "nonfiction novel" about a New England family murdered on their fishing boat.

    You Can Go Home Again. Logorrheic young novelist moves back in with his parents after graduation.

    Slavs of New York. Comic and poignant stories of Eastern Europeans trapped in the 1980s Manhattan art scene.

    ‎ A Wrinkle in Tim. A girl and her little brother meet an aging stranger from another dimension.

    ‎Let Us Now Praise Famous Me. A renowned writer and photographer collaborate on self portraits in words & pictures.

    ‎The Wonderful Wizard of O. A beautiful French woman finds transportive sexual pleasure in the Emerald City.

    ‎Cannery Ow. Love and lacerations in a tuna factory.

    ‎ All the Pretty Hoses. The last scion of a family of Texas ranchers turns to farming.

    ‎ Lonesome Dov. Epic tale of the only Texas Ranger born in Israel

    ‎For Who the Bell Tolls. Tragic novel of grammarians massacred during the Spanish Civil War.

    4, Charing Cross Road: Single-character novella set in a dead letter office.

    Fahrenheit 45. Semi-dystopic novel in which fascists apply blow-driers to books.

    ‎Bing and Nothingness: My Futile Search for Meaning, by Bill Gates.

    The World According to Gap. Comic novel set in a Chinese clothing factory.

    War and Pace. Readers Digest Condensed Tolstoy.

    Do Juan. Comic epic poem about a passive cad.

    ‎The Portrait of a Lad. The novel Henry James was born to write.

    ‎ The Olden Bowl. Unreadable novel about an antique objet d'art.

    Cat on a Hot Tin Oof. Riveting drama of felines who don't land on their feet.

    ‎ The Lass Menagerie. A drama of Scottish polygamy.

    ‎ Remembrance of Things Pat. An accounting of objects owned by our thirty-ninth First Lady.

    ‎Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ma. Teen Mom tries bildungsroman.

    ‎ Elf Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Poems about the myriad natures of small fantasy creatures.

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  3. In Cod Blood. Groundbreaking "nonfiction novel" about a New England family murdered on their fishing boat.

    You Can Go Home Again. Logorrheic young novelist moves back in with his parents after graduation.

    Slavs of New York. Comic and poignant stories of Eastern Europeans trapped in the 1980s Manhattan art scene.

    ‎ A Wrinkle in Tim. A girl and her little brother meet an aging stranger from another dimension.

    ‎Let Us Now Praise Famous Me. A renowned writer and photographer collaborate on self portraits in words & pictures.

    ‎The Wonderful Wizard of O. A beautiful French woman finds transportive sexual pleasure in the Emerald City.

    ‎Cannery Ow. Love and lacerations in a tuna factory.

    ‎ All the Pretty Hoses. The last scion of a family of Texas ranchers turns to farming.

    ‎ Lonesome Dov. Epic tale of the only Texas Ranger born in Israel

    ‎For Who the Bell Tolls. Tragic novel of grammarians massacred during the Spanish Civil War.

    4, Charing Cross Road: Single-character novella set in a dead letter office.

    Fahrenheit 45. Semi-dystopic novel in which fascists apply blow-driers to books.

    ‎Bing and Nothingness: My Futile Search for Meaning, by Bill Gates.

    The World According to Gap. Comic novel set in a Chinese clothing factory.

    War and Pace. Readers Digest Condensed Tolstoy.

    Do Juan. Comic epic poem about a passive cad.

    ‎The Portrait of a Lad. The novel Henry James was born to write.

    ‎ The Olden Bowl. Unreadable novel about an antique objet d'art.

    Cat on a Hot Tin Oof. Riveting drama of felines who don't land on their feet.

    ‎ The Lass Menagerie. A drama of Scottish polygamy.

    ‎ Remembrance of Things Pat. An accounting of objects owned by our thirty-ninth First Lady.

    ‎Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ma. Teen Mom tries bildungsroman.

    ‎ Elf Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Poems about the myriad natures of small fantasy creatures.

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