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Authors spend a lot of time coming up with titles for their texts and Snide Octopus spends a lot of time messing them up. This Instagram account is dedicated to captioning books, and these descriptions are going viral for all the right reasons.

Short and witty, these subtitles usually either cut to the core of the book and brilliantly summarize it or provide an alternative title that would either insult and enrage its author or make him laugh. The unapologetic approach is perfect when it comes to everybody else, though. They catch us off guard and deliver unexpected giggles not only book geeks can enjoy. Scroll down to appreciate Snide Octopus's humorous creations and upvote your favorites.

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Tracy Moorhead
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8 years ago

That narrows it down!!

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    Beatrice Alighieri
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    8 years ago

    "Fire from Heaven, Noise from Hell". Also known as "Please Make It Go Away Mommy, Hug Me Tight". :(

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    eleven's eggos
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    8 years ago

    This could be the name of a Panic! at the Disco song

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    8 years ago

    I will want to watch that. :P

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    Kjorn
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    8 years ago

    Will i. Am Shakespeare

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    Zori the degu
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    My friends and I.

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    eleven's eggos
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    OMG

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    Katie M
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    8 years ago

    He's 31 now

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    Bway_Gonnabe11
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    as a Kansan, i can say YES

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    eleven's eggos
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    The book of the emos

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    Pi...
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    8 years ago

    This deserves more upvotes !!! Lol..

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    Marzo Florida
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    "To those kind souls who took my daughter, I Will Find You."

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    So that is where that came from.

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    Anonymous Doorknob
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Indeed, good luck on your journey.

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Is a back page.

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    Never miss a story that brings joy to the world. Add us on Google

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    earringnut
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    this is so dumb i actually laughed

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    Kjorn
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    why that book is so big then?

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    eleven's eggos
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Chapter 1: The simple art of flattery

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    Anouk
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    I lol'd :)

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    Sel Bonda
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Hey Jude!

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    Kjorn
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    great, i'm already ok

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    Marzo Florida
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Or getting a bath towel *after* your shower bc you forgot

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    Anonymous Doorknob
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    You can never catch the ring leader

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    Pamela Storer
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    This just about had me falling off my chair!!

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    Mixedupste
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Farming in Zimbabwe

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    Aubrie Allen
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    I just laughed so hard!!!

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    Allen Lane Cook
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Holy Buckets! that's a funny one right there.

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    Anonymous Doorknob
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Step 2: The sky is a dome

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Of jail, not in hives.

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    UniversalMel
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    8 years ago

    Awww poor you... don’t worry, gorrillas are small as well

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    Mixedupste
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    8 years ago

    Taking your food order and getting it wrong

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    eleven's eggos
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    My biography: When you add people

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    Samantha Robinson
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Take the kids but leave the Cannoli.

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    Anonymous Doorknob
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    8 years ago

    Is there a sequel for the asian ladies

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    eleven's eggos
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    In the nonfiction section

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    Doc Thissen
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Impressive!

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    Robert Bailey
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    No, it's Up against the wall, REDNECK mother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBOcwgb4OA

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    Doc Thissen
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    You and me both, brother!

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Why stratego orgies are fun.

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    Brian Hermann
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Napoleon conquers you all!

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Sounds like a serial killer's writing.

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    Robert Bailey
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    When I was your age Young, our microwaves had a dial. And we liked it. These fliblity~flarm new fangled contraptions have like 80 buttons. So yeah, I need a book.

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    Chandra Dubay
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    LOL

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    Anonymous Doorknob
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    "Don't worry, I didn't see anything. Carry on."

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    Sel Bonda
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    OMG EndOfWorld :-( A book to guide women wanting to date fossilized man! Scores of living men are here...wanting to go on a date! May be we guys should "fossilze" ourselves! :-(

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    But I like this amnesia thing....

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    No wonder the English came up with Monty Python. Just makes me love them all the more.

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    I remember where it is now.

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    Mixedupste
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    She ended up giving him the cold shouler

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    Anouk
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    F**k it - I'm not drinking any more coffee til I finished reading this page, dammit!

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Comes a draft...

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    Stille20
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Ba Dum tisssss

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    Anouk
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    oh god - don't read these at work! I'm sliding under my desk crying!!

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    Samantha Robinson
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    This must be the book Yoda wrote for Luke after the whole Darth Vader and Leia revelation.

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Yup.

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    Baked Panda
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Oy vey

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    Ella Gillies
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    I'm screaming... internally, of course, but still

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Who taught that fish to type?

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    Pamela Storer
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Once again, I crawl back off the floor, wiping away the tears!

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    Molly Seaver
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    I thought it had to do with that Scottish game

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Should have been a Johnny Cash song.

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Sounds like a party.

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    Baked Panda
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    I hear they are doing a show in Vegas called Rock Hard

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Can you say CREEPY!!!

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    Pi...
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    8 years ago

    Brilliant!

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    Doc Thissen
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    "...only to find yourself in Kansas."

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Me last Saturday night.

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    Baked Panda
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Or stick it in anything

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Let us not speak of the penis.

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    David Ross
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    No one butt him.

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    Robert Bailey
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Ewww

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

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    What it takes to change a lightbulb.

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    Doc Thissen
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    I laughed a little too much at this one.

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Accountant to the thugs.

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    Taryn Wallace
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Three-upsmanship

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    Robert Bailey
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    8 years ago

    No Capes!

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    earringnut
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    so wrong, yet so right.

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    Richelle O'hIcidhe
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    8 years ago

    "I just know that Birch is up to something shady.."

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Crayon and chalk.

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Well, at least I know what to expect... OUCH!

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    One more, and we have a jury!

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    What? No TP?

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    Out of chocolate
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Sniff. We miss you, Joe.

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    Aubrie Allen
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    8 years ago

    Jake from State Farm: The Early Years.

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    Robert Bailey
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    8 years ago

    it puts the lotion....

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Repeat?

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    I was at that party too!

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Oh, but the cheese....

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    LOL just lost it there.

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    David Ross
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    What not to let in your bottom in your cell.

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    Nathalie Mirabelle Schon
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    8 years ago

    Man, you are obsessed with us. Ok, ok, we love you, we didn't mean it when we called you "New World Brain Freeze" Hehehe.

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    No pain, no gain....

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    Robert Bailey
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    8 years ago

    zygote.

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Play a tribute to Elvis!

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Then the little panda got him.

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    Taryn Wallace
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    8 years ago

    It's all fun and games until someone dies of dysentery

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    Baked Panda
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    8 years ago

    Vapor lock

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    David Ross
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    8 years ago

    Shoe trees?

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    Estimation
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    7 years ago

    I love all of these so much! This is the content I need on BP

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