Things to do when you should be writing, #2

Don't ever accuse me of being topical. But I'm sured I've bored a number of people in the pub over the years with my thoughts on this, and I thought I'd do the experiment for real. How to explain? I shan't. Just follow me:

A dice game.

Take six recent-ish Booker Prize winners employing a certain modish and overused formula that will one day look so, like, dated:

Pool 1:

Inheritance
Line
Life
History
God
Remains

Pool 2:

Loss
Beauty
Pi
Kelly Gang
Small Things
The Day

You can guess the rest, and indeed the point I'm trying to make.

Early results from the Booker Prize Winning Title generator:

The God of Small Things (Yeah, I vaguely recall this one...)
The History of Loss
The Line of The Day
The Inheritance of The Day
The Life of Loss
The Life of Pi (x 4 - maybe not as original as it seemed?)
The Remains of Pi
The History of Pi
The Line of Pi

Then that was quite enough pi for me. I had a go at swapping pools 1 & 2 (just to see whether it makes any difference which order the nouns are placed...)

The Loss of Life (x 2)
The Day of The Line
The Day of History
The Pi of Beauty
The Day of Remains
The Beauty of Remains
The Loss of Inheritance
The Kelly Gang of Line (ok, this may be the exception that proves the rule)

Now I don't expect this to become a craze (whatever happened to D & D?) but any thoughts/improvements to this little game would be welcome...