Book Titles if They Were Written Today

[JPhillips]

Saw this featured at Andrew Sullivan and thought we could do just as good a job.

Book Titles, If They Were Written Today

Then: The Wealth of Nations
Now: Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from Them

Then: Walden
Now: Camping with Myself: Two Years in American Tuscany

Then: The Theory of the Leisure Class
Now: Buying Out Loud: The Unbelievable Truth About What We Consume and What It Says About Us

Then: The Gospel of Matthew
Now: 40 Days and a Mule: How One Man Quit His Job and Became the Boss

Then: The Prince
Now: The Prince (Foreword by Oprah Winfrey)

Your titles?

[JPhillips]

Then: Hamlet
Now: Melancholy and Me, A Cautionary Tale

Then: Oedipus Rex
Now: I F#$%ed My Mom?

[CamEdwards]

Then: The Communist Manifesto
Now: Hot, Flat, Crowded, and Total Bullshit: How Capitalism Is Destroying The World (foreword by Michael Moore)

[KWhit]

YAY!!! POLITICS!

[albionmoonlight]

Then: Paradise Lost
Now: Angels and Devils: A Couple's Guide to Living a Good Life in a Bad World

[Honolulu Blue]

Then: Animal Farm
Now: March of the Pigs: A Tale About Revolutions, Windmills, and Becoming (Almost) Human

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by KWhit

YAY!!! POLITICS!

Two posts in and thread killed...

SI

[Izulde]

Then: Jane Eyre
Now: The Jane Eyre Story: How A Plain Girl Found Happily Ever After

[JPhillips]

Then: The Art of War
Now: The Art of War: Overcoming Meddlers, Managers and Middlemen to Achieve Success

[CamEdwards]

Then: Pride and Prejudice

Now: Arrogant Racist Teabaggers in Love

I'm sorry, I know it's political... I just couldn't resist.

Then: Moby Dick
Now: Great White Nope: How Whaling Is Destroying Nature's Most Magnificent Creature

Then: The Jungle
Now: Weinerland: The Hidden Horrors of Our Hot Dog Factories

[gstelmack]

Then: War & Peace
Now: Europe in Flames: Based on actual events!

[AENeuman]

Then: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Now: "Where you at?"

Then: As You Like It
Now: It is What It Is

Uhmmm...how would Cam rename The Stranger?

[Kodos]

Then: Pride and Prejudice
Today: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

[CamEdwards]

Originally Posted by AENeuman

Then: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Now: "Where you at?"

Then: As You Like It
Now: It is What It Is

Uhmmm...how would Cam rename The Stranger?

Dial Meh for Murder: How Homicide Helped Me Understand the Benign Indifference of the Universe




What, you were thinking I'd go with a song title from the Cure?

[Izulde]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Then: The Art of War
Now: The Art of War: Overcoming Meddlers, Managers and Middlemen to Achieve Success

Heh. Ironically enough, I'll be delivering a lecture to my sections tomorrow that I'm calling "Bringing Sexy Fighting Back: Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Business, And You"

[boberot]

Paper Lion
Paper Lion, or My Improbable Journey to Detroit's Starting QB Job


Exodus 34: 11-27
10 Can't Fail Tips for Eternal Paradise!!

[QuikSand]

divisiveness aside, Cam is just killing this thread

[QuikSand]

(in a good way, his titles are brilliant)

[flere-imsaho]

Then: I, Robot
Now: Me, Robot

Then: Leviathan, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
Now: The Government Wants to Rule your Life, and Why this shouldn't Bother You

Then: Mein Kampf
Now: I'm OK, You're OK, People Not Like Us are Not OK

[flere-imsaho]

Then: Silent Spring
Now: Coverup! How Big Business will Kill Everything in the World!

Then: The Elements of Style
Now: Strunk & White's Guide to Everything Grammar, Sponsored by Random House

Then: The Right Stuff
Now: Adventures in Space, or Your Grandpa Was A Stud

[CamEdwards]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

(in a good way, his titles are brilliant)

You crushed me with your first post, and sent my spirits soaring with this one.

[CamEdwards]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Then: Mein Kampf
Now: I'm OK, You're OK, People Not Like Us are Not OK

I lol'ed.

Then: Are You There God, It's Me Margaret.
Now: Is Anyone Reading My Tweets? It's Me Margaret.

Then: Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Now: Then Again, Maybe I Shouldn't Have Posted Those Pics on Facebook

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Then: The Elements of Style
Now: Strunk & White's Guide to Everything Grammar, Sponsored by Random House

SI

[sterlingice]

Then: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Now: Chicken Soup for the Russian Peasant's Soul

Then: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Now: Chief and McMurphy's Excellent Adventure!
(ok, maybe not)

SI

[JPhillips]

Then: Revelation
Now: The Idiot's Guide to the Apocalypse

[dwardzala]

Then: First Amendment - Freedom of Speech
Now: First Amendment - I Can Share My Opinion as Long as Its Politically Correct

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

The First Amendment isn't a book.

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

Then: The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Now: My Political Thoughts, by Charlie Sheen

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

Then: The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Now: My Political Thoughts, by Charlie Sheen

[CamEdwards]

Then: The Iliad
Now: And The Horse They Rode In: The Courageous and Cunning Heroes of Troy

Then: The Odyssey
Now: 10 Years Gone: Misadventures in the Mediterranean with Witches, Goddesses, and One-Eyed Sheep Eaters.

[JPhillips]

You really do have a talent Cam.

[Jughead Spock]

This -

Then: The Iliad
Now: And The Horse They Rode In: The Courageous and Cunning Heroes of Troy

and this -

Then: Moby Dick
Now: Great White Nope: How Whaling Is Destroying Nature's Most Magnificent Creature

are pure f'ing gold.

[DataKing]

Then: The Miller's Tale
Now: National Lampoon - The Landlord's Wife

[JPhillips]

Then: The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Now: There'd be no U.S. without Grant. How a Hard Drinking Hero Saved the Nation

Then: Summa Theologica
Now: Finding God in Everything: Daily Questions for Spiritual Affirmation (Updated to include the Prosperity Gospel!)

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Then: I, Robot
Now: Me, Robot

I'd have gone with iRobot.

[CamEdwards]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Then: Summa Theologica
Now: Finding God in Everything: Daily Questions for Spiritual Affirmation (Updated to include the Prosperity Gospel!)

Nice!

And thanks for the kind words... I only wish writing witty updated book titles paid as well as writing witty books.

[Wolfpack]

Then: Little House on the Prairie
Now: Agri-Business Startups in an Era of Hostile Competition

Then: 1984
Now: 1984: An Alternate History Novel

Then: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Now: Goths and Vandals: The End of Society As We Know It

[ColtCrazy]

Then: To Kill a Mockingbird
Now: Southern Justice: A Look at American's Race Relations

Then: The Twits
Now: The People with Intellectual Challenges (for the PC crowd)

Then: Lolita
Now: The Joey Buttafucco Story

[flere-imsaho]

Then: The Oxford English Dictionary
Now: A Collection of Word Lists from Various English Variants, Abridged

[JPhillips]

Then: The Longest Day
Now: Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Day of the Greatest Year of the Greatest Generation

[SteveMax58]

Then: A Christmas Carol
Now: Sixth Sense II: All Grown Up

[sovereignstar]

Then: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Now: Dude, Where's My Raft?

[kcchief19]

Then: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Now: Keep Fucking That Chicken

[Honolulu Blue]

Originally Posted by ColtCrazy

Then: Lolita
Now: The Joey Buttafucco Story

Alternate version:

Then: Lolita
Now: Please Don't Stand So Close To Me (In Public): That Famous Book By Nabokov

[SteveMax58]

Originally Posted by kcchief19

Then: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Now: Keep Fucking That Chicken

[bigmouth]

Originally Posted by kcchief19

Then: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Now: Keep Fucking That Chicken

i laughed so hard at this one i almost stop breathing.