One missing letter can make a BIG difference.

For example, look how these classic lines change:

• “As you wih.”
• “Iconceivable!”
• “You illed my father. Repare to die.”
• “Life is pan, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

And The Princess Bride becomes ... The Princess Brie! (Nice work, @darth.)

Great titled—but I'm not sure I want to read "Entombed With an Infant"

Via.

Janice Glover wrote a book titled Lighter Side of the Library back in 1974. In it, she asked librarians about book requests from confused patrons.

For example, one patron requested Homeless Idiot. But it turned out that he actually wanted Homer’s Iliad. Ha!

Other good mistakes:

—Reqested: The Missing Hand. Actual book: A Farewell to Arms. 

—Requested: From Here to Maternity.
 Actual book: From Here to Eternity. 

—Requested: The Merchant of Venus. Actual book: The Merchant of Venice. 

—Requested: My Heart Is Wounded, They Buried My Knee. Actual Book: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. 

—Requested: Entombed With an Infant. Actual book: In Tune With the Infinite.

This was gleaned from Greg Ross’s excellent blog, Futility Closet. Visit it!

Wait—that doesn't make sense!

Via.

"Not Sleeping, Just Dead"

This novel (courtesy of Ryan D.) reminds me of one of Al Jaffe's classic "snappy answers to stupid questions":

Question: Are you sleeping?
Answer: No, I'm dead. Leave your flowers and get out.

I wonder what garbage collecting is like in the Great White North.

Oh man, this is too good to be true!

From Awful Library Books.

Upton Sinclair's THE JUNGLE, retitled!

Great work, Char Dwizdala. (And if you're not familiar with The Jungle, check the link!)

"The Three Musketeers": retitled!

Nice work, Scott Westerfeld. I'm sure Dumas would be pleased!

"Real women with real guns"

Chicks with Guns summary:

Lindsay McCrum has created a cultural portrait of women gun owners in America . . . Like the 15-20 million women gun owners in this country, the women we meet . . . reside in all regions of the country, come from all levels of society . . . The women here are sportswomen, hunters, and competition shooters. Some use guns on their jobs and some for self-defense . . . They are real women with real guns that play a part in their lives. By focusing her camera respectfully on . . . gun-wielding women and girls, Lindsay McCrum sheds new light on who we are in America today. 

The Bulpington of Blup

If you've ever struggled to come up with a decent title for your story, blog post, or turtleneck sweater, rest assured that you can do better than H.G. Wells.

In 1932, Wells' novel, The Bulpington of Blup, was published. So no matter how bad your ideas seem, remember that you can never do worse than that!

Book from here.

"Prince of Librarians"

And here I had always thought that librarians were an egalitarian bunch. But if anyone could rise to a position of royalty among them, I guess it'd be Antonio Panizzi.

"Green Eggs and Ham, rehashed

Ah, there's nothing like sprucing up a classic with a more appropriate title and/or cover art!

 Hamlet, reconsidered.

 Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo just gets a different dragon.

And Joseph Conrad's Into the Heart of Darkness is now a Maurice Sendak-ish children's adventure!

P.S. I'm not linking back to the self-apparent source for family-friendly reasons.