The hashtag #bookswithalettermissing was trending on Twitter. In response, user @darth decided to do us all a favor and Photoshop some of the best entries. [via dailydot]
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Book Titles With One Letter Missing (20 Pics)
Harry Otter
This idea (including several of the examples, such as the Da Vinci Cod) are actually from the british radio program Cabin Pressure.
being as that show started in ’08 I’m going to assume they were not the first to ever do this. I participated in a lot of Photoshop Phridays on something awful for ever ago and this was a reoccuring theme. Infact they just did a 3 part series on this theme.
Ring Up The Bodies
Our Ma’ in Havana
The Big Seep
Loud Atlas
The Beak House
A Farewell To Arm
Madame Ovary
A Christmas Carl
Lice In Wonderland
The Secret of the Old Cock could’ve been done a whole other way.
I was thinking the same thing.
Bleak Hose? Our Mutual Fiend? Dickens is a gift to this…!
Olive (with a) Twist or Oliver Twit — you are right!
Oliver Twit
Avid Copperfield
A(n) Ale of Two Cities
you could go on and on.
The World According to Arp
Mob Dick
The Two Owers
The Red Plane
and so on.
The Baby-Sitters Club one makes no sense. The title of the book is “Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls” or something like that. Definitely not a missing letter.
Because they changed the name of the series to The Babysitters Cub. The title of the book was obviously changed to fit in with that.
Note: “The Baby-Sitters Cub”
… The Baby Sitters CUB.
It said The Baby-Sitters CUB. No “L”
They took the “l” out of “Club” in the title of the a
series, then changed the title to make it work with “Cub.”
Nothing like injecting a downer into an otherwise hilarious post.
Ever considered just enjoying the premise and laughing at the result?
Just a thought. 🙂
Yes Charles, my thoughts exactly. I think it is attributable to global warming. Along with the bees dying out, human intellect seems to be waning as well. It also appears that, as human intellect diminishes, sense of irony is the first casaulity… 😉
How do you avoid “Fifty Shades of Gay”?
Fairly easily, as the book is titled, “Fifty Shades of Grey”
Some people spell in with an “a” instead of an “e”
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That would depend if you’re using British or American spelling Jess. So yes it does work and is rather amusing 🙂
Nope, sadly the spelling in the title is Grey, as it’s the surname of one of its awful characters, not the word grey/gray.
Grey is the name of the character. That’s not going to change just because you’re using American English.
Fifty Shades of GRE would be the worst test-prep book in history.
So? It’d just be “Fifty Shades of (teh) Gey”
I love teh g33k in you, Simon
Fifty Hades of Grey
Ooh, nice.
lol
Fifty (de) Sades of Grey
That’s cheating. But how about a book about fish, “Fifty Shads of Grey”?
and nobody knows what the Zeus is going on
“Fifty Shades of Rey”
Fifty shades of gey
Fity Shade of Grey
Rewritten to star 50 Cent.
hilarious 🙂
A Feast for Cows
A Storm of Words
Where Men Win Gory
Things All Apart
Rots
Unless the word “letter” counts as a letter for the joke (which would be inconsistent more than creative), the Hawthorne book doesn’t belong. Some of the others are good, though.
Well, obviously it does. Took me a while to get it though, as I was thinking of The Scarlet Pimpernel 🙂
The Rapes of Wrath
Laughter House Five
Godless you Mr. Rosewater
but… The Raven i a poem, not a novel.
Hilarious idea!
Rapes, cunt? What sort of man are you?
Calm down. More than likely, he was simply absorbed with the idea of deleting a letter from a title rather than thinking about what kind of meanings those changed titles had. I’m sure nothing was meant by it, so your vitriol isn’t necessary. Since we’re doing a literary thing, I was more put in mind of ‘rape’ like in “The Rape of the Lock,” not a literal rape at all.
Why did you just call John a cunt? I think that was uncalled for.
John’s other comment included The Cunt of Monto Cristo, which is where he got that.
LOL “Why did you just call John a cunt? I think that was uncalled for.”
Best misunderstanding ever.
I think that is the best one.
The Cunt of Monte Cristo
The Tree Musketeers
Seven Brides for Seven Bothers
King Ear
Much Ado About Noting
Seven Rides for Seven Brothers
you win the prize for funniest additions!
Don’t forget how narcissistic James Agee could get: Let Us Now Praise Famous Me.
The Cunt of Monte Cristo
The Itch of Blackbird Pond.
Brave New Word
I would NOT want to be on that Jurassic ark.
“One with the Wind,” Gone with the Win,” “Start Little,” “The Trumpet of the Wan,” “Diary of a Wimpy Id,” “Confessions of a Prairie Itch.” So much fun!
There are just 90 ears of solitude, just sayin’
The Prince and the Paper
Liver Twist
All Quiet on the Western Font
The Unbearable Lightness of Bing
Candid
The Rapes of Wrath
On the Rod
The World According to Gap
All Quit on the Western Front.
Don’t you get it? The point is not that this is a new idea–the redrawn covers are the point! Some of them are truly inspired in the way in which the style of the original has been played with. Having said this, I have to agree with @Jaslene, a golden opportunity was missed wrt the old cock.
These are priceless! LOL Here’s my contribution to these excellent replies:
Sweeny Odd
Rome & Juliet
Winnie the Poo
Fifty Hades of Grey
The Secret Life of EEs
Mob Dick
Lack Beauty
A Brief History of Tim
Back Beauty ?
Fun reading. Hopefully one does not have to be of a certain age to appreciate the puns intended with the misspellings.
Life of I
Prince Aspian
The voyage of the Dawn Reader
Leak House
Five go off to Amp
These are great. Thanks for sharing them. I think I will share this with my friends.
Some funny, some meh. As a graphic designer, the PhotoShopping bothered me. The artist should have respaced and recentered the text when eliminating letters.
Just thought of a few others…
1. Jane Eye v. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
2. Sales Lot v. Salems Lot – Stephen King
3. Back Beauty v. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
4. Lord of the Lies v. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
5. Little Omen v. Little Women – Louisa Mae Alcott
6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Inn v. Finn – Mark Twain
7. The Picture of Dorian Gay v. Gray. – Oscar Wilde (kind of funny if you think about it.
8. Rave New World v. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
9. The Gapes of Wrath v. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
10. Rome and Juliet v. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
11. The Old Ma and the Sea v. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
12. Heat of Darkness v. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
13. One with the Wind v. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
14. Liver Twist v. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Hart of Darkness
Hear of Darkness
The Bile.
“Like”.
Niiice
We await publication of helpful kitchen guide, “A Place of Grater Safety”. I have cover ready now. Still working on my tatted underthings pattern book, “A Lace of Greater Safety”.
Why is there a carp on the cover of The Da Vinci Cod?
Owl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
I was (perhaps too quickly) reading through the comments and got to the last one and thought, “That’s not funny, where’s the missing letter?”. Then I realized “Your e-mail address will not be published” was not an entry…
The House of the Even Gables – Hawthorne
Moby Ick – Melville
A Ale of Two Cities – Dickens
Ride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eye by Charlotte Bronte
On the Rod by Kerouac
A Clockwork Range – Burgess
Cancer War – Solzhenitsyn
The Unbearable Lightness of Bing – Kundera
War and Pace – Tolstoy
Paradise Lot – Milton
The Ell Jar – Plath
The Journal of a Plague Ear – Defoe
Gulliver’s Ravels – Swift
To Ill a Mockingbird – Lee
The Topic of Cancer – Miller
Alas Shrugged – Rand
This is too much fun – must stop….must STOP! 🙂
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Goldilocks and the Three Bars
Lice in Wonderland
Fatland (Flatland)
Of Mice and Me / Of Ice and Men
The Pear
The Andromeda Stain (The Andromeda Strain)
The Lost Word (The Lost World)
The God of Mall Things (The God of Small Things)
The Hound of the Bakervilles (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
The Sin of Four (The Sign of Four)
Emesis (Nemesis)
Isn’t “The Lost World” a movie, not a book?
Ummm…someone needs to better understand the classics.
Written in 1912.
Sometimes, a simple search engine is the way to go. It prevents embarrassing moments, like this.
Since students are going ever more in debt with the new interest rates, they might enjoy:
“Future Hock” by Alvin Toffler
“The Rapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck, “Mob Dick” by Herman Melville
the joy of cooing
The Joy of Ex
He idiot – Dostoevsky
One flew over the cuckoo’s net – Kesey
The Outside – Camus
Miser -King
Dago – Lovecraft
Lord of the Lies – about a great prevaricator.
Ride and Prejudice – the story of Rosa Parks.
Lord Foul’s Ban (Lord Foul’s Bane)
The Power Hat Preserves (The Power That Preserves)
The One Tee (The One Tree)
White Gold Wilder (White Gold Wielder)
White Old Wielder (White Gold Wielder)
White God Wielder (White Gold Wielder)
The Wounded Lad (The Wounded Land)
Winter’s Heat (Winter’s Heart)
The Forest Hose (The Forest House)
Runs (Ruins)
Cities of God (Cities of Gold)
Cities of Old (Cities of Gold)
A Man Rides Though (A Man Rides Through)
Gory Season (Glory Season)
Omlet by William Sakes’ pear
Were you going for Hamlet? No “o” there.
flexibility is a gift of God, i.e. it’s not meant for everyone…
George Orwell’s “Animal Arm”
George Orwell’s “984” ?
hell God, It’s Me Margaret
the ale of peter rabbit
harold and the purple rayon
everyone pops
curious gorge
little hose on the prairie
Little Bother
Rue Blood
Smilla’s Sense of Now
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ma
The Prim of Miss Jean Brodie
Vanity Far
Jane Eye
Tristam Handy
Ucky Jim
The Koan
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Tone
Harry Potter And The Half-Loaded Prince
> Harry Potter And The Half-Loaded Prince
That’s cheating, it ought to be half-looded. No, actually not even that. The original title is ‘half-blood’ as opposed to ‘half-blooded’.
How about Harry potter and the Half-Bloo Prince? Alf-Blood Prince?
I know, but it sounded cool.
Anyway, I vote for Alf-Blood Prince, that’s hilarious…
a clockwork range
I Heard You Paint Hoses.
Rabbi, Run!
What about song titles: On The Rod Again vs On The Road Again, Willie Nelson
Mob Dick, Herman
Laughter in the Ark, Vladimir
Our Gag, Philip
War and Pace, Leo
The Big Seep, Raymond
A Hose for Mr Biswas, Vidiadhar
The Potable Promised Land, Toure
Mr Dalloway, Virginia
And the list goes on and on.
Oedipus Ex
In Search of Lost Tim by Marcel Proust
Where Angels Fear to Read by E.M. Forester
The Unexpurgated Cod by J.P. Donleavy
The Secret Gent by Joseph Conrad
The Englishman’s Oy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Panted Word by Tom Wolfe
The Picture of Dorian Gay
Fuck all
Waterhip Down
Lord of the Lies
Brave Ew World
Rime and Punishment
Gullivers Ravels
Vanity Air
The Prince of Ties
1. Postmodern Poo – Frederick Carews
2. Common Mistakes In Engish (5th Edition) – T.J. Fitikides
3. i before e (except after ) – Judy Parkinson
4. The Aster and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
5. Pass Both Your Diving Tests
6. The Highway Cod
7. The Unbearable Lightness Of Bing – Milan Kundera
8. The Fir Next Time – James Baldwin
9. A Singular Ma – J.P.Donleavy
10. Stupid White Me – Michael Moore
11. Drams From My Father – Barack Obama
12. Backeyes – Dennis Potter
13. Fur – Salman Rushdie
14. More Ricks Than Kicks – Samual Beckett
Favorites:
The Scarlet
Rabbi, Run
Doesn’t matter if they have been done before. Still funny.
I’m reading a book called ‘Kafka on the Shore’. It’s tempting to lose the ‘s’ from the last word.
Infinite EST
The Naked and the Dad
From Her to Eternity
984
Lonesome Doe
Brokeback Mountin’
Eat, Pay, Love
The Autobiography of Malcolm
Around the World in Eight Days (works whether spelled out or using the number!)
cool
i think now is possible and will fit more…so hilarious
Oliver Twit
How about a religious theme? The Bile, The Korn, and the Book of Moron.
Haha, this made me laugh out loud in public
Jewish version – The Oy of Sex
Lie of Pi
East of Den
War and Pace
Madame Ovary
Mob-Dick, Melville’s great American novel of a detective in charge of social unrest.
The Valley of Hoses, Jean M. Auel’s follow up on her bestselling Clan of the Cave Bar.
In Cod Blood, Truman Capote’s chilling portrait of alternative bathing techniques.
For Whom the Bell Toll, Hemingway’s great ebonical treatment of the Spanish Civil War.
The Return of the Naive, Thomas Hardy’s great novel of romance among simple-minded folks in the heathlands of England.
And let’s not forget John Updike’s compelling children’s book about the experiences of a cute bunny working in a small town hospital, Rabbit, Rn.
Captain Emo
I am sure I had some thing more important to do this evening – but it can not have been this amusing. Goethe’s Fast. Grimm’s Now White.
Ear and loathing in Las Vegas
Lice in Zombieland
A time of gits
Little omen
The rave boys
The Canterbury ales
Rash
The fault in our tars
Cath 22
Catch 2
You know, I saw something similar on a Tumblr called Classy Books. It featured such titles as Ayn Rand’s classic “Atlas Farted,” George Bush’s seminal “Decision Farts”, and Faulkner’s opus “As I Lay Farting.”
Gotta get the kids excited about literature!
The Andromeda Train
The Black Hoe War – Susskind
The Elfish Gene – Dawkins
The Disappearing Poon – Kean
Gay’s Anatomy
The Oy of Cooking, by Jewish Princess
A Tree Rows in Brooklyn, Stories from Hurricane Sandy
Ma’s Search for Meaning
At Hoe in Mitford
In a Dark Woo Wandering
Oliver Twit
Lipstick Races (Greil Marcus)
Goldilocks and the Three Bars
Travels with Harley
World According to Arp
The Da Vinci Cod is an actual book. It’s a parody, but a book nontheless. I know this because I’ve read it. It was literally the only comedy-style book in the airport on a very long flight, but yes. It exists.
Me talk petty one day
The fault in our tars
Oryx and cake
Midnight in the garden of goo and evil
Stitch ‘n’ itch
Invisible Ma
The gass menagerie
The tipping pint
Also: Feces – a play by August Wilson
The Return of the Naïve (Thomas Hardy)
Invasion of the Boy Snatchers (Jack Finney)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ma (James Joyce)
The Geek Myths Vols 1&2
A Brief History of Tim
Not sure if anyone submitted it yet but…”America Psycho”
The Wounded And – a grammar book!
Eats, Shoots, and Leave.
The Ridge Over the River Kwai
The Plane of the Apes
Do Quixote
The Old Bug
The House of Even Gables
Two Ears Before the Mast
My Friend Licka
U Manchu?
MacBet
In the Eat of the Night
In Old Blood
Ur Man in Havana
None Dare Call It Reason
The Blue Boo
‘Im by Kipling
The Even Pillars of Wisdom
The Silver Hair
The Rise and Fall of the Roma Empire
“Stories or Boys”
The Way We Wee!
🙂
LOL LOL!!
Water or Elephants
One Girl
Fight Cub
Mater and Commander
The Huger Games
O’ Country for Old Men
Goodnight Mon
Charlie and the Chocolate Factor: A tale of how Willy Wonka integrated African Americans into his Oompa Loompa workforce.
The Velveteen Rabbi
Did anyone do Voyage of the Bagle?
Forrest Gum?
Forrest Ump?
Goldilocks and the Three Bars?
Midsummer Night’s Ream?
The Reluctant Fund Mentalist
Men Kampf
The Blues Eye
One Hot One Kill
The Screw Ape Letters
Raged Dick
A Tale of Unfortunate Vents
The Man in the Ron Mask
Up the Dow Staircase
Grimm’s Fairy Ales
A sop’s Fables
The Moo and Sixpence
West Side Tory
The Silent Sprig
The Heart of Arkness (The true essence of the ship.)
Ms Pinafore
Prates of Penzance
The School for Sandal
Robin Hood and His Merr Men
On Carlos
The Comedy of Erros
The Mechant of Venice mechant = naughty (in French)
To Gentlemen of Verona
Androcles and the Ion An ancient, very advanced physicist
Ma and Superman They kept it discreet
Pyg Alion A swine from outer space who speaks Middle English
Layboy of the Western World
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