"Lesserbooks" Twitter hastag takes off

"Lesserbooks," A Twitter string for the literary set, has seen tens of thousands of new entriesbetween May 20 and 21. The idea: Choose a classic book title, then alter it slightly to downgrade it to non-masterpiece status.

Lesserbooks, which uses the catch phrase "Names of books that didn't quite make the shelves," has spawned suggestions including:

• Of Mice
• Eat, Pray, Sleep
• The Manager of the Rings
• The Crepes of Wrath
• Tale of One City
• One Hundred Minutes of Solitude
• The DeVito Code
• Zen and the Art of Unicycle Maintenance

To join the frenzy, tweet your title and include the hashtag #lesserbooks. http://twitter.com/search?q=%23lesserbooks
From: Independent