Books I would like to write

[robinturner]

For a long time I wanted to write a book called "The Power of Negative Thinking", but unfortunately someone has beaten me to it. She rather spoils the effect by entitling it The Positive Power of Negative Thinking, presumably because some of the flaky people who buy self-improvement books wouldn't get the point without it. So, to forestall any opportunistic authors stealing my titles just because I'm too lazy to write them, here are some pop psychology books I'd like to write:

• I'll See Your Prozac and Raise You a Xanax
• Post-Feminist Man: How to be an obnoxious sexist slob and still get laid
• Somebody's Got to Lose: How to screw people over and still feel good about yourself.
• Cutting Edge: a young person's guide to self-harm
• Whining and Dining: How to profit from victimhood

Comments

[drx.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

This should inspire a good story

[tristan-moore.livejournal.com]

A Nation of Wimps

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

How To Succeed at Suicide Without Really Dying

Women Good, Men Bad

Smart Women, Foolish Reading Material

Ahhhhh Shaddup Awready! How To Win Every Argument (and Lose Every Friend)

[vret.livejournal.com]

What color was your balloon?
7 Habits of Highly Smug People.
Awaken the Mgt within.
Quit quitting and live with it.

[redngold.livejournal.com]

•Who moved my Cheese back? (while I was congratulating myself...)
•Duhh, Dude! (Blank ignorance, the new Hip and how to flaunt it.)
•Give me Bulimia, or give me...umm...(how to fake intelligence on 30 calories a day)
•The New Urban Pedestrian Physics (if you walk at them fast enough, they'll evaporate)
•Felicks (if you can't handle bipeds, 100 ways to feign a meaningful adult relationship - with a Cat!)

all c me. See what quitting smoking can do for you?

Re: This should inspire a good story

[solri.livejournal.com]

That article confirms what I'd always suspected. It looks like America is becoming more like Turkey in that respect (I mean middle-class urban Turkey, not villages where you're working in the fields at ten, and married at fourteen). One of my colleagues mentioned that when he's talking to Turkish students, he automatically subtracts five years from their age.

I thank the gods I was born in the "permissive" 60s to parents who had embraced many of the ideals of that time, but retained some traditional British stiff-upper-lip values to leaven them with.

Re: This should inspire a good story

[tristan-moore.livejournal.com]

HA! Right?

[solri.livejournal.com]

You quit? I remember the time you went cold turkey after smoking two packs a day - you looked like a government TV ad on the evils of heroin.

[redngold.livejournal.com]

D'you think Damien Hirst would like to paint me, then?