How about this for a way to while away Friday afternoon? The top trending topic on Twitter at the moment is #lesserbooks – reworkings of titles that don't quite cut the mustard. And the tweeting masses are coming up with some properly comic suggestions.
There are many variations on To Kill a Mockingbird ("To Slightly Maim", "To Injure") and The Great Gatsby ("The Not-as-shite-as-you-think", "The Fairly Good", "The Pretty OK") but I particularly liked:
@johncarneyau's Zen and the Art of Unicycle Maintenance
@HarryReginald's Things Stay Together
@AdGilmour's If on a Winter's Night a Quiche
And @yayforhome's Mr Correlli's Mandolin.
There's a lot of Lord of the Earrings, but I think the best ones I've spotted, for sheer simplicity, are @Sonofalink's Of Mice, and @robertoallen's 1983.
I've just been to scan my bookshelves and they've inspired me with A Hitchhiker's Guide to north London, As I Lay Slightly Unwell, The Year of the Leak, and The Golden Twig, but I'm hopeless at this kind of thing – if you're trying to distract yourself from the fact that the end of the day is still a couple of hours away, can you do any better?
