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Typos Change Everything (A Game of Thongs, Anyone?)

We’ve all experienced it: reading a book with an overabundance of typographical and grammatical errors. I read a lot of self-published releases, and I recently read a novel with a grammatical error in the title! There it was—right on the cover in huge letters for all the world to see!
It’s incredibly frustrating to read a book filled with mistakes, but sometimes the errors can unintentionally alter—sometimes comically—the significance of a sentence. Here’s an excerpt from another self-published novel I read a few months back. The lack of a comma makes this serious sentence quite hilarious!
“We’re going to raise up your bed so you can eat Mister Fulton.”
One misspelled word or misplaced punctuation mark can change everything. Don’t believe me? Here is what happens when some current bestsellers and classics titles have “oopsies” in their titles…
 • The Butter: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
The Bong Season by Samantha Shannon
The Stank by Stephen King
City of Asses by Cassandra Clare
Elven Rings by Phil Jackson
The Liver by Lois Lowry
Baked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
A Game of Thongs by George R.R. Martin
A Dunce with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
The Massage by Justin Cronin
Doctor Sheep by Stephen King
Kilting Jesus by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Animal Fart by George Orwell
Of Mace and Men by John Steinbeck
The Wise Man’s Rear by Patrick Rothfuss
Dung by Frank Herbert
As I Lay Drying by William Faulkner
Invisible Van by Ralph Ellison
Starship Poopers by Robert A. Heinlein
The Drapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lord of the Fries by William Golding
Pickle Me, Elmo by David Prebenna
So the next time you run across an error in a book, rein in your irritation for a moment—it could actually make the read more entertaining!
Add your typo-ed title in the comments!