Book titles that didn't quite make it (Word Game)

[Scribble]

I'd like to introduce a new writerly game! You take a book title, and you suggest a version of the name that "didn't quite make it."

Some examples of classic books:

A Farewell to Limbs
For Whom The Bell Rings
The Once and Scheduled King

From modern fantasy/scf-fi...

The Roller of Time
The Name of the Breeze
A Game of Recliners

 

[Ireth]

The Empty-Stomach Games
Lord of the Finger Jewellery
Harry Potter and Nicolas Flamel's Invention

 

[Scribble]

The Clique of the Ring
Ender's Pastime
The Moon is a Harsh Sweetie

 

[Ireth]

Between Sunset and Dusk
Moon and Sun Sharing Ecliptical Longitude
Moon and Sun in Conjunction
Sun Coming Up

 

[Devor]

Green Eggs and Pig
Moby the Spermaceti-rich Toothed Whale
The Fellowship of the Hobbit - a look at Pippin's later life as he participates in Gondor's Top-Squires Program

....and of course,

Love, Pray, Eat - the Pregnancy Guidebook

 

[Scribble]

2001: A Space Junket

 

[Ireth]

Alice in Weirdland

 

[Spider]

The Big Cat, the Hag, and the Closet

 

[Scribble]

Dragonlance: Dragons of Vernal Sun-up

 

[Pythagoras]

The Really Long War
The Really Long Trip
(Illiad and Odyssey)

 

[Rinzei]

Ego and Enmity
The Not-Found-Guilty Mage
Frankentankard

My husband's contribution is:
Interplanetary Territorial Dispute

 

[Scribble]

The Vapors of Avalon

 

[SeverinR]

The tiger, the Wiccan, and the coat closet.

The Federation fights back

Conan, the meek

of lice and men

Tax collector of Naughtingham, a love story.

 

[Scribble]

Pile of Sand
Brain-Cell-Mancer
Elderly Man's War

 

[Sheilawisz]

Try to guess these book titles that didn't quite make it:

1- I got Killed by my Crazy Neighbor.

2- Short-sighted Orphan goes to Supernatural School.

3- Little Shiny Thing causes loads of Trouble.

Too easy??

 

[Scribble]

Try to guess these book titles that didn't quite make it:

1- I got Killed by my Crazy Neighbor.

2- Short-sighted Orphan goes to Supernatural School.

3- Little Shiny Thing causes loads of Trouble.

Too easy??

1- Hmm....

2- Harry Potter and the Alchemical Substance Able to Turn Base Metals into Gold

3- Lord of the Hoops


Here's another:

Where the Undomesticated Things Are

 

[SeverinR]

Mincaliber
Lady-troll
Orc-princess

Classics:
Rhinestones are a girls common aquaintance.
The alright cool thing
Domestic critters revolt

 

[Trick]

(A Song of Ice and Fire) A Melody of Frost and Burns
(When They Are Hanged)When they are strung up by the neck until dead
(Lord of the Flies) King of the Winged Bugs
(No Country for Old Men) Ain't a Nation for Geezers

 

[Penpilot]

Moby Rick
A Story of Two Municipalities
Massive Presumption
Ivan's Hoe
Pitching into the Rye

 

[Ddruid]

Try to guess these book titles that didn't quite make it:

1- I got Killed by my Crazy Neighbor.

Too easy??

What the hell is the first one?

Ink-filled Aortic Pump

Inky Abracadabra

Killed By Ink


We should make this a challenge where the next poster has to guess which books the titles of the previous post are.