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Amusing book title parodies
geekgirl101
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Has anyone come up with some creative and amusing book titles and descriptions for writer careers? I noticed many of the ones already in the game are tweaks of existing books such as The Lord of the Swings (Lord of the Rings), The Frequently Ending Story (Neverending Story) and The Glutton Spiel (Hunger Games), so I thought I'd make a few of my own when I joined the Freelancer writing career. Here's a few of my own:
Dorie in Adventureland (Children's)
Dorie follows a unicorn through a portal into an alternate world full of adventure.
Just Malcolm (Children's)
The pranks and misgivings of a teenager called Malcolm and his renegade friends.
Five-Second Bedtime Stories (Children's)
Young readers will be whisked away to over 50 new and exciting five-second adventures designed to quickly entertain.
The World Without Autonomy (Non-Fiction)
What would the world be like if we had no free will of our own, would an invisible hand guide us to do every day things and interactions?
Nothing to do About Something (Romance)
Four people fall in love, then they don't, then they fall in love again. Nothing happens and everyone is left hanging in a limbo.
Dorie in Adventureland (Children's)
Dorie follows a unicorn through a portal into an alternate world full of adventure.
Just Malcolm (Children's)
The pranks and misgivings of a teenager called Malcolm and his renegade friends.
Five-Second Bedtime Stories (Children's)
Young readers will be whisked away to over 50 new and exciting five-second adventures designed to quickly entertain.
The World Without Autonomy (Non-Fiction)
What would the world be like if we had no free will of our own, would an invisible hand guide us to do every day things and interactions?
Nothing to do About Something (Romance)
Four people fall in love, then they don't, then they fall in love again. Nothing happens and everyone is left hanging in a limbo.
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The Big Boat That Might - Tugs is a lazy boat. If you give him something to do, he just might do it...or he might not, it just depends.
Jessie Wrote - A young girl learns of secrets going on within her neighborhood, but instead of doing anything about them, she simply writes fantastical tales of a more interesting girl.
Shovels - A detention camp ships young boys out into the desert and hands them what are clearly weapons...then...get this...they only have one unarmed person watch over and lob insults at them.
The Thieving Bush - A bush gets fed up with people taking its berries, so it decides it's time to take some things in exchange.
The Receiver - Some guy is giving out free cures for colour-blindness. This is the story of one guy who avoided getting it until the reviews came in.
Cowardly Little Blender - Did you hear about the blender who screamed every time it heard a loud noise? What? What was that? I can't hear you over this milkshake I'm whipping up...and that godawful screaming.
Rat Pimples - I bet you didn't think I could write a 200-page book about rats dealing with acne.
The Jake Documents - Jake works in an office as a file clerk. This is a recounting of how he organised a stack of documents one time.
Vampires Wear Whatever They Want - Some kids think their school faculty are monsters, and it's up to the faculty to prove them wrong. They aren't "monsters"...that's a derogatory term. "Mortal-adjacent" is a much nicer way to refer to them.
Art! Ya Missed!! Foul!!! - A kid who's bad at sports goes on to be bad at stealing things, too.
Spike Protein: Private Eye
Spike Protein: The Mask of Corona
Spike Protein: The Delta Variant
Word really got around about the books, which had an infectious enthusiasm in the main character.
And remember this above all. Our Roman gods are watching. Make sure they are not ashamed!
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Children's books, Criss In Boots, Criss In Boots Goes To School, Criss In Boots Makes Friends, you get the picture.
Mystery, Murder On The Llama Express, Freezer Bunny Crime Cases.
Cinderbella (Children's)
A young girl forced to work as a maid by her evil step-mother desires to meet with and attend a dinner party at a rich mans' mansion.
A Bear Called Blarrfy (Children's)
Blarffy had traveled all the way from Egypt and since then things have never been the same as ordinary things had become extraordinary.
The Llama, the Witch, and the Closet (Fantasy)
Three children play hide and seek inside a closet that opens into a new world of a talking llama and gnomes under threat by an evil witch.
Journey to Nimbus Gardens (Fantasy)
When Voidcritter Collector Ashley visits a magical garden his journey turns into the adventure of a lifetime.
The One Second Manager (Motivational)
One Second Goals, One Second Praisings, and One Second Reprimands.
Doctor What? (Sci-fi)
A mystical gentleman travels through time and space with his companions in an old refridgerator which is inexplicably smaller on the inside.
Nurse Where? (Sci-Fi)
The story of the lovely partner of a mystical gentleman who may or may not travel through time and space. Who knows anymore?
Doctor "Whom" - A neurotic, self-proclaimed "doctor" from the planet Lexicon travels through time and space, correcting everyone's speech.
Kapaldi? 😆😆
I did one parody, Silence of the Llamas. And if I am not feeling creative, I name it one of the fake movie titles in Seinfeld. There’s Prognosis Negative; Death Blow; Cry, Cry Again and a bunch more I like to use.
Among the already published books, there are definitely references to GOT with names like A Game of Groans and one based on A Song of Ice and Fire. There are also a few that appear to be based on Twi.lig.ht. I think my favorite book titles though are Gentleman Corgi: A Memoir and Ode to Stimulating Vibrato.