Game: Novel letter change

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Take the name of a famous novel and change one letter to come up with a new novel. Include a short synopsis.

Dine: Paul Atreades(sp?) becomes a intergalactic restaraunt critic
Dane: Paul Atreades is sent to a barren ice world were a race of fair haired, blue eyed people live. Only they know the secret of making Beer*.
Dun: The story of Paul Atreades’ horse.
Done: Frank Herbert’s experimental novel consisting of only one word.

Two cheats:
Din: What’s that? Speak up, I can’t hear you!
(Gunga) Din: Paul Atreades meets a waterboy at a desert fortress.

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Moby Duck: One man’s obsession with the great white mallard.

Gone With The Wand: The latest Harry Potter? And its “parody,” The Wand Done Gone.

3

Richard Bachman’s Shinner, the tragic story of a soccer player’s obsession with drawing fouls.

John Steinbeck’s immortal classic Of Lice and Men, which chronicles one man’s attempt to rid himself of nappy hair.

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Right, a tale of a vacationing family’s experiences while lost on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago.

The Drapes of Wrath, a young man’s struggle to inherit his father’s curtains.

To Bill a Mockingbird, the latest in the Dr. Doolittle series, in which the good doctor decides he will no longer provide services for free.

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The Name of the Robe: A young monk reflects on hotel larceny.
The Name of the Pose: Sean and Madonna cause a stir in a hot library.
The Name of the Dose: Once bitten, twice shy in the ossiary.
The Name of the Hose: An important classical work is saved due to quick-thinking fireman.
The Name of the Nose: As above, fireman now played by Steve Martin.

(Otto’s back: cool)

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Slaughterhouse Live!: As Western civilization crumbles, cable TV sinks to a new low.
Stare Wars: The fate of the galaxy is determined by a staring contest. (“Luke, I am your opthamologist.” “Nooooo!”)
The Hunt for the Rad October: Undercover surfer dudes track a Russian sub lurking off Malibu Beach.
Machievelli’s The Prance: Instructs young dancers on the virtues of ruthless footwork. (Ok, not really a novel, per se…)

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War & Pace…a swifter version of War & Peace, for the internet generation.
Ware & Peace - an analysis of how trade brought peace to Europe.

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The Count of Monte Crisco : great lost novel by the Marquis de Sade

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The Hound and the Fury - Cujo part II. (Also, The Hound and the Furry)
Less of the d’Urbervilles - The locals get fed up.
The Pea Wolf - A wolf, frightened by the local chickens, becomes a vegetarian

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The Sea Worf The Klingon version of Mutiny on the Bounty.

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The Bobbit: Lorena… um never mind. I’d rather not come up with a synopsis for this one… use your imagination!!

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The Eighth Lay- The story of a degenerate, depraved man, and the woman he meets on his eighth sexual encounter.

The Lead Zone- A novel detailing the pleasure, and the pain, of lead poisining.

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Fannie Hall – Memoirs of a woman of pleasure, la di dah, la di dah.

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E.M. Forster’s sensual masterpiece A Massage to India, the sexy story of a Playboy Bunny’s birthday gift.

Dashiell Hammett’s ode to life in an art college: The Glass Keg. Written three years before his excellent mystery The Shin Man, the story surrounding the investigation of the murder of a podiatrist.

William Golding’s biographical account of the greatest acrobat of all time: Lord of the Flips.

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Wad and Peace: [censored]