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Drawing the Wrong Lessons – Bad Book Review Clickbait
Per some rather head-smackingly daft articles @titustechera has been bringing to my attention on Facebook (I’ll not link to them so as to spare the guilty), let’s have a game. The goal here is to come up with one or two sentence article titles on life lessons you can draw from classic or famous books or stories, but with a catch. You see, you must demonstrate that while your article title does indeed convey that the you may have read the story in question, you obviously did not understand it, and are instead trying to wring out whatever preconceived life lessons you think the story should have been about. Some starters are:
- A Christmas Carol: How hard work, thrift, and personal sacrifice allow generous philanthropy in old age.
- Wuthering Heights: How to stay true to yourself.
- Game of Thrones: How your siblings can help you get ahead in life.
- McTeague: How occupational licensing laws ruin lives.
- The Great Gatsby: The evolution of automotive safety.
- Tom Sawyer: How to leverage networking your friends to distribute workloads more evenly.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: When to bring out your inner wolf to achieve success.
Have fun with this, and show no mercy to the ignorant.
Published in Humor
Desert Storm: A Forgotten War : US Marines begin a multi-generational effort in support of modern day Persia’s urgent request to push Thailand to the number two spot as the world’s best brothel.
Gracious sakes! Now, I *have to* check out this book. (Sounds like strategery to me.) :-)
See Winning the Piece: Volume XII. Chapter 24/7: Foreign Area Officers in the attack!
I am so ready to read this…My life is so boring right now. Fay-O is just the thing to add some zing, yes? :-D
Madam Bovary – Aging archery champion gets her groove back and earns big coin.
Catcher in the Rye – Insolent battery mate finds love in granary.
War and Peace – Duh
Great Expectations: Young or old, all chicks are crazy.
King Solomon’s Mines: Continue to never trust women.
She: Seriously. We’re not kidding.
A couple years back I reread King Solomon’s Mines. Later, listening to the recording of a Supreme Court argument, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke up I thought to myself “That’s exactly how I imagine Gagool speaking.”
All About Eve: What, the first 3 warnings didn’t take?
The Bible – Part 1 is old-school violence, death, and destruction. Part 2 is all hippy-dippy peace, love and understanding. Needs a third act.
The Bible, Part III– Ya’ll brought this on yourselves.
Anne of Green Gables: Nope, still don’t trust ’em.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Trust your life to a backwoods country lawyer.
Nicely done.