Double Booking
 

After the runaway success of "Tailgaters", I thought you might like to know of this week's diversion in the Washington Post.

Style Invitational Week 971: Double booking — put two books under one cover.

Come up with a double book with a humorous connection; the first title must be an actual book, while the other may be your own fictitious title or a second real book. Feel free to add a short description if that enhances the humor. (Closing date: May 21)

Here are the examples they give:

Front cover: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Back cover: The Very Full Robin

Front: The Hobbit
Back: The Bobbitt, a shorter tale

Actually, I think it's more amusing to use two real titles. Here are a few that I've come up with ... but I'm sure you can do better.

The old man and the sea/The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (... both of them spinning a line)

Bleak House/Cold Comfort Farm (... after them, the Hilton doesn’t seem so bad)

Little Women/Great Expectations (... great things come in small packages)

Summoned by Bells/Ring for Jeeves (... now we know for whom the bell tolls)

Venus on the half-shell/A farewell to arms (... she was fine with Botticelli - she never should have gone to Milos)

Anna Karenina/Trainspotting (... so that’s why the Moscow train was late ...)

Moll Flanders/’Tis pity she’s a whore

Flush/Goodbye to All That
Flush/All's Well That Ends Well
Flush/The House at Pooh Corner

Sorry. Feeling rather lavatorial today

Flush/The Turd Man

Sorry. Sorry

Number 3 made me laugh, John. (Perhaps you should have placed it second?)

Journey Without Maps/Why Are We In Vietnam?

The Mill on the Floss/White Teeth

I love that last one (floss/teeth), Brian.

FRONT: Eat Yourself Beautiful: The Ultimate Guide To Health And Beauty From Within
BACK: Eat Yourself, Beautiful: The Ultimate Guide To Using Commas

Basil, you gave me my second good laugh of the day.

Neat, Roger.

FRONT: Watership Down
BACK: Rabbit, Run


FRONT: Origin of the Species
BACK: Planet of the Apes


FRONT: Jude the Obscure
BACK: The Invisible Man

A Tale of Two Cities
Down and Out In London and Paris

Moby Dick
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea