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You are here: Home / Humorous / Better Book Titles: The Communist Manifesto

Better Book Titles: The Communist Manifesto

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  October 12, 201111:40 pm| 35 Comments

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Brilliant.

Better Book Titles is a clever tumblr which I have been following for months, but I think this recent example might be my favorite:


You should spend some time looking through the archives. It’s probably more amusing for those of you who are litura-cha enthusiasts.

Open Thread.

[via Better Book Titles]

[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]
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  1. 1.

    BGinCHI

    October 12, 2011 at 11:46 pm

    It was over for me with “Will Fuck For Turnips,” by Erskine Caldwell.

    What would Cleanth Brooks have said about that?

  2. 2.

    darkmatter

    October 12, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    I’ve got a soft spot in my cold black heart for “The Fa–ist and The Furious” myself.

    And “Everybody Poops” should have been titled “Eat, Pray, Racism”

  3. 3.

    Linda Featheringill

    October 12, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    Cute title.

    Less amusing if you’ve actually struggled through the first section of Capital, which is about making a fetish of money.

    /ETA: The rest of the book is actually pretty interesting and a pretty good read.

  4. 4.

    Warren Terra

    October 12, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    Funny idea, but if those people could find a worse browsing interface, they’d surprise the heck out of me. Worse, they’d probably implement it. What an irritating experience, looking through their archives.

  5. 5.

    darkmatter

    October 12, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    Fuck me, I missed the one of the best in the lot called “Shit My Dad Says” a.k.a. The Holy Bible.

  6. 6.

    BGinCHI

    October 12, 2011 at 11:57 pm

    @Linda Featheringill: You can skip that chapter now that it’s passed beyond theory.

    Go straight to chapter 51: Why Workers Are Fucked: Feature Not Bug.

  7. 7.

    fleeting expletive

    October 13, 2011 at 12:05 am

    Excuse the OT, I am watching Star Trek V, with the originals. I think they are still all alive. Couldn’t they yet get together and do another one, fat and old as they clearly are? I think the canon commands it. I’d like it, for shure.

  8. 8.

    Linda Featheringill

    October 13, 2011 at 12:09 am

    @BGinCHI:

    Go straight to chapter 51: Why Workers Are Fucked: Feature Not Bug.

    And once you understand that, you cannot un-understand it.

  9. 9.

    Linda Featheringill

    October 13, 2011 at 12:10 am

    Okay children. Time for granny to go to bed. :-)

  10. 10.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    October 13, 2011 at 12:13 am

    Ron Paul is asking for me to help him secure our borders. Are we going to finally build that fence on the Canadian border?

  11. 11.

    burnspbesq

    October 13, 2011 at 12:14 am

    There is a disturbingly large number of people in this country who would rename “The Handmaid’s Tale” as “Utopia.”

  12. 12.

    ChristianPinko

    October 13, 2011 at 12:16 am

    Better Book Titles is OK, but it’s not as good as this thread, which explores a similar idea.

  13. 13.

    sfinny

    October 13, 2011 at 12:16 am

    Insurgency: How the Nefarious Hobbits Waged Class War on Sauron.

  14. 14.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    October 13, 2011 at 12:17 am

    @fleeting expletive: Kirk is dead, the actors who played Scotty and Bones are dead, and Spock is in a different universe. Could be a bit tough.

  15. 15.

    sfinny

    October 13, 2011 at 12:19 am

    @burnspbesq: That book seriously freaked me out. Didn’t know why at the time, but I think I realized that a certain segment of the population did see it as Utopia.

  16. 16.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    October 13, 2011 at 12:26 am

    @ChristianPinko: You’re links broken.

  17. 17.

    ChristianPinko

    October 13, 2011 at 12:27 am

    OK, trying it again: here.

  18. 18.

    Warren Terra

    October 13, 2011 at 12:28 am

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent):
    I like how you mix in-story continuity and real-world actors.

  19. 19.

    fleeting expletive

    October 13, 2011 at 12:29 am

    Belafon—-merely a writer’s challenge, it’s only Rock and Roll,but I like it, like it, yes I do.

  20. 20.

    Little Boots

    October 13, 2011 at 12:32 am

    occupy wall street is awesome. just gotta say. what’s funny, is this started in Wisconsin, and the kind of people who were protesting in Wisconsin really are worlds apart from the Occupy kids, but it really doesn’t matter. this stuff is infectious in the best possible way. it is truly awesome to see that this country, across the whole spectrum, is finally starting to get it. what we have, sucks. but what we could have, what we could still do is amazing. love it.

  21. 21.

    suzanne

    October 13, 2011 at 1:03 am

    Hate-Fucking and Architecture actually sounds like a book I’d enjoy.

  22. 22.

    piratedan

    October 13, 2011 at 1:19 am

    OT: really nifty news if this pans out

    telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8818864/Cure-for-peanut-allergy-in-sight.html

  23. 23.

    burnspbesq

    October 13, 2011 at 1:23 am

    @piratedan:

    No shit.

    Understand, though, that some one or more of the usual idiots is going to show up and rip you a new one for linking to That Tory Rag.

    Only the Guardian is acceptable in these parts. Even though its cricket coverage is le suck.

  24. 24.

    Brian S

    October 13, 2011 at 1:27 am

    @piratedan: @burnspbesq: Interestingly enough, I just saw someone over at Pandagon in the comments reference this very research. Here you go, and not from the Telegraph either.

  25. 25.

    Little Boots

    October 13, 2011 at 1:34 am

    damn you, crappy cricket coverage!!!!

  26. 26.

    piratedan

    October 13, 2011 at 1:34 am

    @burnspbesq: my apologies, didn’t consider the source, was focused solely on the content. Since I have a son who falls into that small group of being severely affected by peanuts, ingestion and contact, I figured there might be a few others as well.

  27. 27.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

    October 13, 2011 at 1:42 am

    .
    .
    I like the one re-titled Uncle Clarence Thomas.
    .
    .

  28. 28.

    burnspbesq

    October 13, 2011 at 2:07 am

    @piratedan:

    I was kidding about the Telegraph, and kidding a bit less about the knee-jerk intolerance on offer here.

    The news is seriously good.

  29. 29.

    jeffreyw

    October 13, 2011 at 2:41 am

    @ChristianPinko: I like the one from commenter RichardJ:

    Now: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
    __
    Then: Towards a recounting of the late Farrago in MESOPOTAMIA by the Armed Forces of the AMERICAN Republic, including several diuersions of Interest to concerned GENTLEFOLK on the propinquity and foolhardiness of that most despis’d Clique of American Politickers that has brought that Country’s policy towards other nations close to DISASTER. (With numerous engravngs. illustrating points throu’ out.

  30. 30.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 13, 2011 at 2:48 am

    Adam Smith beat Marx to the money fetish in The Wealth of Nations, but none of the wingtards have ever read that, either.

  31. 31.

    Spiffy McBang

    October 13, 2011 at 3:35 am

    I’m shocked no one linked the Palin one.

    betterbooktitles.com/post/6384627578/palin

  32. 32.

    jeffreyw

    October 13, 2011 at 4:35 am

    If I had a life I would be abed. Instead I am up at 3:30 local time downloading iOS 5 to my touch.

    Here’s a nice breakfast.

  33. 33.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    October 13, 2011 at 5:17 am

    @jeffreyw: no shit

  34. 34.

    Neddie Jingo

    October 13, 2011 at 6:32 am

    LOL: Huck Finn: One of My Best Friends Is Black

  35. 35.

    ChrisB

    October 13, 2011 at 10:52 am

    There Will Be Blood (aka What To Expect When You’re Expecting) made me laugh out loud.

    So did How I Met Your Mother (aka Oedipus the King).

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