Re: The Off By One Thread - Book Edition
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The Cunt of Monte Cristo
Hairy Potter
The subtle art of not giving a duck
Legend of the Balls
Of Rice and Men
Green Eggs and Spam
A brief history of mime
Wuthering WeightsI cheated...none of those are mine.
Some of mine (decided to go with a parenting book theme):
The Happiest Baby on the Black
Experimenting with Rabies
Gentile Discipline
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The Stank
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@hungrier Since it's Stephen King's birthday, I'll continue
The Gumslinger
The Drawing of the Tree
The Paste Lands
Wizard and Grass
Wolves of the Balla
Bong of Susannah
The Dark Toner
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Hitchhiker's GUID to the Galaxy
Restaurant at the Bend of the Universe
Dicsworld
Ringword
The Bingworld Engineers
The Panda's Thump
Broca's Bran
The Tsar Thrower
Jonathan Livingston Smeagol (OK, not off-by-one, but...)
The Lives of a Hell
A Mite in God's Eye
When We Were Sax
Goodnight, Poon
The Little Rinse (off-by-two)
Wonderful, Lite (and yes, I know that the title itself is a ref, you can fuck yourself with a model of an A. canadensis for all I care about that)
The Joy Fuck Club (OK, that one was just low-hanging fruit)
Can, Did
The Art of the Seal
The Papal Voh
The Wealth of Rations
Mein Kamp (I can see this as a title for John Waters' autobiography, actually, though he probably would spell it 'camp' - OTOH, given his love of outrage, maybe not...)
A Clockwork Orang (a DIY guide to constructing pongoid robots)
Malice in Wonderland (that was a gimme, too)
Peter Pain
The Pleasure of Binding Things OutFiled Under: Bisqueworld?
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The Audacity of Hops (real book title, BTW)
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@hungrier said in Re: The Off By One Thread - Book Edition:
@hungrier Since it's Stephen King's birthday, I'll continue
The Gumslinger
The Drawing of the Tree
The Paste Lands
Wizard and Grass
Wolves of the Balla
Bong of Susannah
The Dark TonerThe Wine through the Keyhole
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Bork
The Dark Tower: The Long Road Hole
The Dork Tower: Treachery
The Dark Power: Sorcerer
The Dark Tower: The Mall of Gilead
The Dark Tower: The Tattle of Jericho Hill
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Mistborn: the Final Umpire
Dead Boat
Spin Game
Furries of Calderon, and all the rest of that series, up to High Lord's Furry
Darwin's Witch (Science of Dishworld II)
(Guess what Carrie's favourite genre is...)The Once and Future Kong
Java 8 Inaction
(Current reading material)
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Nostrilia (Of course, most people won't recognize the book I am talking about)
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A Wrinkle in Tim.
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The Empire of the Bun
Catch 23
The Hard Boys
War and Peach
Far From the Modding Crowd
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I met Jim Butcher at Comic-Con over the weekend, so:
Stormfront
Foul Moon
Brave Peril
Sumner Knight
Death Musks
Blood Rates
Dead Beet
Proven Guilty
While Night
Small Flavor
Torn Coat
Charges
Ghost Store
Cold Dais
Ski GameUpcoming:
Smell Problems
Place Talks
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White Mold Wielder
The Tow Towers
Fellowship of the Ming
Foundation's Ledge
Return of the Kong
Romance of the Tree Kingdoms
Bromance of the Three Kingdoms (actually, that's kinda what it really is anyway)
The Grate Mirror
The Great Mirror of Mail Love
The Wood Earth
The Rad Earth
All Men Are Bothers (an English translation of The Waiter Margin)
Grate Expectations (cribbed ruthlessly from Monty Python)
Beard on Broad (I wonder if there are any bakers here who will recognize this one)
The Comp Leet Angler
The Compleat Analer
Ride and Prejudice (a possible biography of the first lesbian in space? Even just being the first American woman in space, she did catch a lot of flak, long before most people heard about her sexual orientation - that wasn't really made public until after her death.)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Rich
The Decline and Fail of the Roman Empire
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Walership Down
The Prague Dogs
The Bin War (Trilogy)
High Snore!
Understanding Colics
Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Lame Design
The Hero with a Thousand Feces
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Snot Crash
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@masonwheeler Don't forget:
Sid Jobs
Welcome to the JingleFuture titles:
Hell's Belles
Stars and Stoners
Empty KnightI don't got anything for Proven Guilty either, though.
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Turn Coit
How about some Banks?
Ex Session (court-ordered time spent with one's former spouse)
Flayer of Games
Player of Lames
SUSE of Weapons
Ruse of Weapons
Surface Retail
State of the Arm
off-by-two: The Hydrogen Santa
also off-by-two: Look to Woodward (a retrospective on the Watergate scandal)
off-by-quite-a-lot: Consider PhlegmBill the Galactic Heron
Best of Eden (Note: not off-by-two. This is the Harrison book, I'll get to Steinbeck in a moment)Strand on Zanzibar
This Perfect Lay
Eats of Eden (toldya I'd get to Steinbeck)
Least of Eden
Beast of Eden
The Gapes of Wrath
The Gropes of Wrath
off-by-two: The Apes of Wrath
Of Ice and Men
Travels with Charrey
off-by-three: Travels with CarlinThe Naked and the Deed
The Dharma Buns
off-by-two: The Drama Bums
The Naked Launch
off-by-two: Nova ExcessThe Drying of Lot 49
A World Out of Tims
A World Out of Dime
off-by-two: A World Out of Tune
Neutron Scar
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The Flamingo's Mile
Sully for Brontosaurus (I'm not sure why he'd be running for that office, or even what that office entails, but whatever. Vote Sullenberger!)A Lass, Babylon
The Reaming City
Sailor on the Seas of Fat
The Wired of the White Wolf
Stormringer
Count Bras
The Oak and the Pram
The End of All Tongs
The Engrish Assassin
The Entropy Mango
A Cute for Cancer
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P.S., Your Cat is Dad
The Lady is Not For Turning
off-by-two: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Fed
Huckleberry Fink
The Adventures of Tom's LawyerPilgrim's Pro-Grass
Pilgrim's PROGRESThe Rave (OK, so that's a poem, not a book per se)
The Mall of Cthulhu (Rl'yeh gets some much needed urban redevelopment)
The Red Madge of Courage
The Sound and the Furry (wait, I am pretty sure that's been done already...)
A Long Day's Journey into Bight (a sailing travelogue)
off-by-two: A Long Date's Journey Into NightThe Bun Also Rises
A Farewell to Aims (a self-help book on letting go of poorly-considered plans)
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@masonwheeler Proven Guiley maybe?
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@yamikuronue is that a real word?
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The Soun Also Rises (Mr. Tendo finds love again)
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The Bhagavad Vita (a post-apocalyptic society that worships the hand-held gaming devices left behind by their ancestors)
Of Mace and Men
Of Mike and Men ("Honey, I swear it's not what it looks like! I was just helping him adjust his underwear... with my mouth...")
Rodeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dram (just having a nightcap before going to bed, honest...)
off-by-two: Howell ("Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...")
Wheezie Bat
Generation Ax
off-by-two: Catcher in the Y
off-by-two: Kutcher in the Rye
The Closing of the American Hind
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The Wizard of Ox
Wacked
off-by-two: 120 Days of Soda
The Cum of All Fears
The Art of Wear
The Prance
of-by-two: Where Have All the Woolly Mammouds Gone? and it's revision (also off-by-two), Second Coming of the Woody Mammoths (Wow, I am really getting obscure there)
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Dung
"The shit must flow"
"I will release my feces, let them pass through me"
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@scholrlea said in Re: The Off By One Thread - Book Edition:
Rodeo and Juliet
Garth Brooks actually did a song by that name.
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@scholrlea said in Re: The Off By One Thread - Book Edition:
Nostrilia (Of course, most people won't recognize the book I am talking about)
Cordwainer Smith fan? Not that I have read the book, but I've read references to it.
Hmm, coming late to this thread, lots of good ones already taken. What shall I go for? Well, I'm reading through my Heinleins at the moment, let's see...
Farter in the Sky (leading off with a fart joke like the classy person I am)
Farmer in the Ski
Podkayne of Bars (or Cars, or Mass, or Mats, or...)
The Puppet Basters
The Puppet Tasters
Time for the Stats
Time for the Stares
Tile Enough for Love (off by two, the much more interesting Time Enough for Lava)
The Man Who Sold the Poon (or the Moan, or the Morn, or the Mood)
The Door Into Sumer (it took me an embarrassingly long time to come up with this one)
The Dior Into Summer (apparently some sort of fashion guide)Lamish but the best I could do:
The Words of Robert Heinlein
The Beast of Robert Heinlein
Starship TropersOff by two:
The Door Into Slumber which, actually, is a halfway decent fit
Beyond This ChorizoNo real scope to be funny: Waldo & Magic Inc., Methuselah's Children
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Robert Heinlein
That reminds me:
Strangler in a Strange Land
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@hungrier and, I suppose, The Moon is a Marsh Mistress