Modern Prometheus...or Tenth Muse?

[leahbobet]

So in the shelving of bookstores you learn a lot of things about books. Some of them are about marketing trends, publishing, and the habits of the readership, and some are about silly cover art and when you could get away with what title in science fiction. For example, nobody could get away with THE GODS THEMSELVES (oh noes!) now, or STARMAN JONES. You had to be in a certain era to pull that stuff off with a straight face.

Such it is with Victorian fiction.

Try calling a book To Serve and Submit: Or, the Modern Prometheus now. Really.

So I gazed mine eyes upon this, and decided that you have a task! A task from the Gods! It is to fill in this sentence!

__________, or, The Modern Prometheus.

Example solutions include:

A User's Guide to Vacuum Technology; Or, the Modern Prometheus
I Was A Teenage Fairy; Or, The Modern Prometheus.

The only rule? The book titles must be of real books. Link to the Amazon listing if you're going obscure.

Well then. Off you go!

ETA: And make sure you are in fact filling in a sentence. Tossing book titles at one by themselves simply does not do it.

Comments

[wistling.livejournal.com]

Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56, Or, the Modern Prometheus

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

You Only Live Twice

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

I like:

Atlas Shrugged, or, The Modern Prometheus

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Ack, you beat me.

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

Like. :-)

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

The Liver Disorders Sourcebook, or, The Modern Prometheus

[cpolk.livejournal.com]

To Reign in Hell, or, The Modern Prometheus

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Unregulated Chicken Butts; Or, The Modern Prometheus

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Slightly tombstoned: Killing Pablo (http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Pablo-Mark-Bowden/dp/1903809487/ref=sr_1_5/102-3602894-2204921?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176851744&sr=1-5) or the Modern Prometheus.

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

That Darn Squid God, or The Modern Prometheus.

[haruhiko.livejournal.com]

Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson, or, the Modern Prometheus

[mekkavandexter.livejournal.com]

The Skeleton Inside You; or, the Modern Prometheus.

Jack the Giant Killer; or, the Modern Prometheus

[samhenderson.livejournal.com]

Everybody Poops, or, The Modern Prometheus.

[woodrunner.livejournal.com]

The Power of One (http://www.amazon.ca/Power-One-Bryce-Courtenay/dp/1552780120/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/701-0152800-5416359?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176855719&sr=8-1); Or, the Modern Prometheus

from the Department of Redundancy Department

[obake.livejournal.com]

The Prometheus Deception; or, the Modern Prometheus... you be the judge!

[mmarques.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, or, The Modern Prometheus

[kafkonia.livejournal.com]

Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, or, the Modern Prometheus

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

Like. :-)

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

American Gods, or, The Modern Prometheus.
The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom, or, The Modern Prometheus
My Lover's Lover, or, The Modern Prometheus.

Also, it's a phrase, not a sentence!