Alternative Titles

As mentioned in this post on the best newspaper corrections of the year, the Guardian acknowledged that Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude not, as the paper suggested, One Hundred Years of Solicitude. A shame, really, since this latter would seem a more entertaining, lively read. In that spirit, readers are invited to suggest similarly altered titles for novels or movies that would be more amusing, more interesting or simply more suggestive than those chosen by the artists themselves.

Comments

[John]

Well "War and Peace", as any Seinfeld fan knows, was originally supposed to be titled "War: What is it Good For?" It was Tolstoy's mistress who insisted on the change.

[ben]

The publisher demanded a heteronormative rewrite of "James Eyre", of course.

[Gary]

Great Expectorations: The Ted Williams Story.

[JimB]

How about Scott Fitzgerald's dewy-eyed romance novel, "Tender is the Knight".

[Paul Turner]

Not to be confused with David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Joust".