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Ooh, this is FUN: lesser books

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Porpoise · 21/05/2010 16:11

Just seen this on Twitter. It's basically the titles of "lesser books".

So...

Love in the Time of a Chesty Cough

or

To Kill a Starling

or (my personal favourite)

Alice in Sunderland

Any more for any more?

OP posts:
thell · 23/05/2010 23:34

A Tale of Two Settees

How about -
2001: A Parking Space Odyssey

StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 23/05/2010 22:30

Watership Up

Spamlet

or

Omelette

Julia's Seizure

Two Oiks of Vaynor

The Drunken Wives of Woking

Simon of Atherton

Tony and Cleo

asmallbunchofflowers · 23/05/2010 22:10

The Ofsted Inspector
The Slight Feeling of Solitude of the Jogger Around the Block

whydobirdssuddenlyappear · 23/05/2010 22:02

Meaningless sex in a temperate climate

Tales of mild bafflement and reality

Frankenhalfpintglass

Pilgrim's Significant Lack of Progress, See Me.

Fear and Loathing in Leicester

mumofeightplusfour · 23/05/2010 21:37

chips are not the only vegetables
breakfast at mcdonalds

mumofeightplusfour · 23/05/2010 21:24

jaws the goldfish
1,2 velcro my shoe

whydobirdssuddenlyappear · 23/05/2010 21:19

Dralon rabbit

whydobirdssuddenlyappear · 23/05/2010 21:05

Cat on a tepid corrugated iron roof

whydobirdssuddenlyappear · 23/05/2010 21:04

Bridget Jones's scribbled post-it note

Lady Chatterley's Sordid One-night Stand

Sons and Bits on the Side

RustyBear · 23/05/2010 20:21

The Wounding of Roger Ackroyd

Mouse among the Pigeons

Straight House

Illness in the Clouds

Death on the Thames

Destination Known

Elephants Forget

Fairly Long Night

Four little Pigs

Hercule Poirot's Christmas Eve

The Puppy of Death

Mrs McGinty's really not very well

The Mirror Got a Scratch

Murder really isn't as easy as I thought

A Pocket with a few grains of corn

Flat Cyanide

Towards -1

RustyBear · 23/05/2010 20:14

SmellsLikeTeenSweat - your name is just made for a variation of this game!

ItNeverRainsBut · 23/05/2010 20:14

Bleak Outhouse

Green Eggs and Tofu

The Handmaid's Text

A Tale of Two Settees

MiniMarmite · 23/05/2010 20:05

The bonfire of Dante

mumofeightplusfour · 23/05/2010 19:57

sinbad the sea cadet
quite pretty and the animal

sockmonkey · 23/05/2010 16:44

Honeydew mellon by Marian Keyes

Tattyhead78 · 23/05/2010 15:34

Heavy Petting and the City
The Girl with the Dragon Transfer
Being Slightly Up Oneself and Prejudice
Bridget Jones's Wallplanner
The Hamster of the Baskervilles

Eleison · 23/05/2010 14:41

Mansfield Play Area

(lol at Jam Jar)

TruthSweet · 23/05/2010 10:18

Puppy of the Baskervilles

The ok-ish Bones

Sunday rejoicing

Robot Hallucinations

Him, Robot

Through a glass in need of Fairy Liquid

ludlowcalling · 23/05/2010 09:40

The Jam Jar.

CJCregg · 22/05/2010 23:54

Shouldn't that be The Spy Who Just Wasn't That Into Me?

Loving 'the half-arsed look under the sofa'!

whydobirdssuddenlyappear · 22/05/2010 23:43

Beige Beauty

The Spy who Thought I was OK

Smillie's People

The half-arsed quick look under the sofa for Red October

The blurred paparazzi photo of David Gray

Local Velour

The Story of Q

Gust in the Shrubbery

The spy who came in from the mildly unseasonable weather

The man who made husbands laugh.

shockers · 22/05/2010 23:06

The Irn Bru Man

Pete Pot

On the Pavement

Rubytwokids · 22/05/2010 22:33

at many of these, but especially Beopuppy.

The Blatant Six

Where the Mild Things Aren't

Northanger Chapel

Embarrasment and Acceptance

Tracy Shot Glass

Abouthalfwaythroughdymion

The Red Pop-up Play Tent

Dusk

The PhD Student

The Rime of the Middle-Aged Mariner

The Color Mauve

mumofeightplusfour · 22/05/2010 21:40

from ruislip with love

TheRedQueen · 22/05/2010 21:29

The My Way Code