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September 2007
Compiled by Sarah Brown, of the Tippecanoe County Public Library, Layfayete, IN, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Butchered Title Requests

A Race Car Named Desire   ("A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennesee Williams)

A Thousand Days of Silence   ("One Hundred years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

A Thousand Splendid Sins   ("A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini)

All About Cooking   ("It Ain't All About the Cooking" by Paula Deen)

Anne of the Green Cable   ("Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery)

Anti-Gone   ("Antigone" by Sophocles)

Attack of the Trivets   ("Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndham)

Bonfire of the Vampires   ("The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe)

Canary Road   ("Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck)

Chicken Noodle Soup   ("Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak)

Chicken Soup for Dummies   ("Chicken Soup for the Soul" series OR "For Dummies" series)

Cream and Berry Tales   ("Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer)

Diuretics   ("Dianetics" by L. Ron Hubbard)

Don't Let A Pig On a Bus   ("Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" by Mo Willems)

Eat a Cat   ("Etiquette" by Emily Post)

Ed Who Ate Rats   ("Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles)

Everything's Over Except for the Yelling   ("All Over But the Shoutin'" by Rick Bragg)

Fire Hydrant 415   ("Fahrenheit 415" by Ray Bradbury)

Flowers for Allergies   ("Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes)

Flycatcher   ("The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger)

Freddy the Rabit Slept Late   ("Friday the Rabbi Slept Late" by Harry Kemelman)

Funny Farm   ("Animal Farm" by George Orwell)

Harry Potter and the Chamberpot of SEcrets   ("Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K. Rowling)

How to Kill a Mockingbird   ("To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee)

Huckleberry Finn, by Tom Sawyer   ("Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain)

I Left My Heart at Broken Arm   ("Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Alexander Brown)

Jane Erie   ("Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte)

Jungle Love   ("Love Among the Savages")

Lame is Rob   ("Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo)

Looking in Honey's Window   ("Up in Honey's Room" by Elmore Leonard)

Lord of the Files   ("Lord of the Flies" by William Golding)

Lord of the Rings   ("Lord of the Flies" by William Golding)

Love's Breasts, by Dr. Susan   ("Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book")

Make Way for Ducklings A L'orange   ("Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert McClowsky)

Mice are Gay   ("My Sergei" by Ekaterina Gordeeva)

Mold Art Effect for Children   ("Mozart Effect" by Don Campbell)

Moonlight in Savannah's Garden   ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt)

Old Sappy Tree   ("Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns)

Oranges and Peaches   ("The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin)

Oziman's Prayer   ("A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving)

Red Bird in Russia   ("Cardinal in the Kremlin" by Tom Clancy)

Redfern Rose   ("Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawles)

Salad at a Bad Cafe   ("Ballad of the Sad Cafe" by Carson McCullers)

Satan in the White House   ("Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson)

Satanic Nurses   ("Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie)

Seed of the Soul   ("Seat of the Soul" by Gary Zukav)

Silent Ship, Silent Sea   ("Run Silent, Run Deep")

Sister Yo-Yo's Holy Secret   ("The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells)

Sixteen Candles   ("19 Minutes" by Jodi Picoult)

Sneaky Caboose   ("Puss 'n Cahoots" by Rita Mae Brown)

Tequila Mockingbird   ("To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee)

Tess of the Ooba-Doobas   ("Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy)

The Angry Raisins   ("The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck

The Best and Worse of Times   ("The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan)

The Canine Mutiny   ("The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk)

The Cat Who Shat   ("The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss)

The Hiding Place, by Carrington Boone   ("The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom)

The Lion With the Wardrobe   ("The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis)

The Lovely Boner   ("The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold)

The Mousketeer that Roared   ("The Mouse that Roared")

The Phallic Mosaic   ("The Parsifal Mosaic" by Robert Ludlum)

The Philistine Prophecy   ("The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield)

Scarlett's Letter   ("The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Secret Life of Pi   ("Life of Pi" by Yann Martel)

The Sources, by some Roger   ("Roget's Thesaurus")

Washing Elephants   ("Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen)

Water for Buffaloes   ("Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen)

Waterford Chocolate   ("Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel)

Waterford Elephants   ("Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen)

We All Fall Down   ("Things Fall Apart" by Chinue Achebe)

Weekend at Morries   ("Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom)

What Color is my Umbrella?   ("What Color is Your Parachute?" by Richard Bolles

Witch, by Rita Flora   ("Sybil" by Flora Rheta Schreiber)

Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Decked   ("Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Decked Out" by Neta Jackson)

Your Erogenous Zones   ("Your Erroneous Zones" by Wayne Dyer

Mixed-Up Authors or Requests by Phrase

A new book about "mourning doves" (The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough)

A book by Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

A book about public plateaus (Plato's Republic)

Something to do with whales or some kind of water mammal (Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen)

A blue book, and the author has a funny name (the latest Kinky Friedman title)

That book about Hotey the donkey (Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes)

Books by Agnes Christine (Agatha Christie)

Books by Harley Quinn that his wife liked to read (Harlequin romances)

That penguin book (The Pelican Brief by John Grisham)

A boy getting a book for his sister in high school, -a book about bird hunting (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)

Rabbit, Run by John Updick (John Updike)

That new secret diet book by Dr. "To Do" (The Weight Loss Cure THEY Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau)

Books on Jean Pocket (Jean Piaget)

"Othello Harrington," a play by Shakespeare. The guy kept INSISTING this was the correct title.

Misunderstood or Totally Clueless

Mom assisting kid with biology homework, looking for Fetal Scent Syndrome. Turns out it was his GEOGRAPHY homework and he was supposed to research the Fertile Crescent.

Kid asked for "How to turn your dad into a bagel." Turns out he needed something on Trinidad and Tobago.

While working at the children's desk, an adult patron once askd me for books about "damnation." I faltered for a second, not sure whether I was looking for the kid friendly fire and brimstone books or what, and the patron repeated what sounded like, "Damnation! Damnation! One hundred and one!" Which cleared it up quite a bit, and we found books about spotted dogs.

Student and mother ask for a book on the "killer whale" volcano (Kilauea!)

Kid looking for a book by Anne Frank. Gave her The Diary of Anne Frank and the child looked at me and said "I know this one...didn't she write anything else?"

Books about fox painting (turned out to be "faux" painting).

The book about the GOBLINS! (turned out to be the Elfquest series)

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