Retitling for the SEO Age
Genius from McSweeney’s. (My answers for what the originals are, after the jump.)
- 7 Awesome Ways Barnyard Animals Are Like Communism—Animal Farm, clearly.
- The 11 Stupidest Things Phonies Do To Ruin The World—The Catcher in the Rye, possibly my favorite in this list. I’m tempted to write a post, or a series of posts, with this title.
- 8 Surprising Ways West Egg Is Exemplary Of The Hollowness Of The American Dream—The Great Gatsby, one of my favorite novels. I don’t like this title. I would have gone with 8 Surprising Ways the Rich are Different from You and Me, even though that’s not purely a reference to the contents of the book.
- 6 Shockingly Evil Things The Turn-Of-The-Century Meatpacking Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know—The Jungle.
- 5 Insane Ways London Could Become a Dystopia (And How It’s Not That Far From Reality)—1984. I like this one because its clumsiness just seems perfect.
- 1 Weird Thing Caddy Smells Like—The Sound and the Fury, which I’ve never read. I don’t have a strong opinion on this title, although it might be the most incongruous.
14 Jun 2010 at 23:35
Odd that the first three are books we studied in secondary school. Guess it would have been hugely buzzard if Emma and Portrait had been 4 & 5