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Blessed Mixings: Titles You Wish Really Existed
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January 1998
Compiled from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
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"Patrons say the darndest things!"
(these are all titles patrons have asked for - honest!)
Waterford Chocolate (Like Water For Chocolate)
Satanic Nurses or Satin Verses (Salman Rushdie--Satanic Verses)
"Do you have Cliffs Notes for Good Dog Carl?"
Moby Dick in comic book form
Salad at a Bad Restaurant (Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers)
The Le Mans method of childbirth. It creates a vivid mental image.
Midnights in Havana or Moonlight in Savannah's Garden (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
The Phallic Mosaic (Parsifal Mosaic)
Too Short to Live by Mickey Rooney (Life Is Too Short)
Lez Miserableballs (Les Miserables)
Falcon and the Wand of God by Morrison (Falconer and the Eye of God by Morson)
Youth in Asia (The real request was for Euthanasia)
Striving on Chous (Thriving on Chaos)
Lesee Moon by William Prarie (PrairyErth, by William Least Heat Moon)
Lux Radio by Les Miserables (a recording of the Lux Radio Theater version of Les Miserables).
I Left My Heart at Broken Arm (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee)
Knock Me Down by Yates (Knock 'Em Dead by Martin Yate)
Tequila Mockingbird (To Kill A Mockingbird)
Taco Bell Canon (Pachelbel's Canon)
Women who Dance with Wolves (Women Who Run with the Wolves + Dances with Wolves?)
Women Who Run with the Elves (A variation on the above, natch.)
"That book about all those dead cowboys by Dana Kubler Ross." (Westerns by Dana Fuller Ross)
Diuretics (Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard)
The Philistine Prophecy (The Celestine Prophecy)
Mice are Gay by Ekaterina Gordeeva (My Sergei)
Rolled Dough (otherwise known as Roald Dahl)
Summer of My German Shepherd (Summer of My German Soldier)
Shoes Come Undone (She's Come Undone)
Sid Arthur by "some German guy" (Siddhartha by Herman Hesse)
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