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Some Book Titles Before They Were Ready

7/2/2015

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After my article about industrial products that needed one more iteration to get things right -- like WD-39 or SixUp, the um, cola -- appeared in McSweeney's, I wrote a sequel of sorts involving book titles. (Long after I wrote the piece, which appears on RejectPile.com), I found someone else had come up with a similar idea on McSweeney's but with different, and fewer, jokes, years before I became a regular reader of that site.) 


You can check out the article here. But here are some additional titles that ddn't make the cut but that I liked anyway:

  • 99 Years of Solitude
  • Valley of the Doll
  • Six Years in Tibet
  • 1983
  • The Six Habits of Mildly Effective People
  • Where the Wild Thing Is
  • The Second Man
  • And Then There Was None



Here are some offered by my friend William Vodrey:
  • Moby-Richard
  • The Pretty Good Gatsby
  • As I Lay Mildly Constipated
  • The Satanic Limericks



To all my follower(s), let me know if you have suggestions of your own.
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