Three men infatuated with one beautiful woman. Guy she ends up with is too good for her.
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
Boy meets girl, boy imprisons girl, girl withers away. Boy meets girl...
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
Apocalypse Now but with Brahms instead of The Doors.
― BPG, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
"Is the grass greener on the other side? It must be. Oh, it isn't. Time to die."
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
"Being in World War II was so bad that now I hallucinate about aliens and time travel."
― BPG, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
Rural tart gets mixed up with local bounder. Dad is constantly pissed. Too upbeat? OK, I'll add a dead baby and a murder. Stonehenge. Hanging.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
Ok - I'm cheating. That's every John Grisham novel.
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― SRH (Skrik), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Cupie (Cupie), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Cupie (Cupie), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― chillythekid, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
Boy loves girl. "I'm too original for you," sniffs girl. Girl proves originality by marrying gold-digging asshole. First boy stalks girl.
― Phil Christman, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
"You're an idiot," says Rogozhin. "Yes," smiles Myshkin. "I'm going to mistreat a woman now," says Rogozhin. "Unhand her, you beast!" says Myshkin. His brain fries.
I also had a prof in college who liked to summarize all of Soviet Social Realism this way:Boy meets tractor. Boy and tractor fall in love. Boy and tractor live happily ever after.
― Phil Christman, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
WHOOP! Benzedrine's great Romilar's cheaper! NGK ZRRRRZSSST Noise is primal actfact of funky/tragic pullulation (cf. Velvets, 1965) ZAP! OK, what was I talking about?
― Phil Christman, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Cali, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Art Linkletter, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link
I think therefore I am...but that's it, baby.
― Not That Chuck, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
A frenzy of drugs and sex, somewhat like a frat house, only in the near future.
― loveisreal, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link
She's a man, baby! Or is s/he?
― tl (tom), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
Being young is better than being old. Marriage sucks. Men are assholes.
― Chris Jay, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link
Dostoyevsky "Notes From Underground"
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
The Magus by John Fowles (9/10ths of this, Foreigner)
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link
Batleby the Scrivener
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
Get there before the hair.
― el kabong, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
If there's grass on the field, then play ball.
― el kabong, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
What an asshole. No, seriously, what an asshole!
― el kabong, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
-Life of Pi
― Robomonkey (patronus), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago) link
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
― DanielTheHead, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Kathryn L., Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son; I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain't one.
― B. Michael Payne (This Isnt That), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 26 February 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago) link
visit grey tuesday to download the grey album before emi blocks it for good. jay-z's black album mixed with the beatle's white album. v good.
back to the books...
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 26 February 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago) link
conchis shoots 85 greeks. it drives him insane. he kidnaps nicholas and fucks with his head using greek culture. nazis and penises.
― Jackson Mississippi, Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
whitey sucks. DESTRUCTION!
CATCH-22by Joseph Heller
war totally sucks. i don't want to die. i want sex. sex is good. everyone is crazy. crazy is funny. funny is tragic. JUMP!
― Jackson Mississippi, Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
If only they had a hearse.
― gir1 detective, Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
Huge guy is bad, then becomes really good. Rescues a bunch of people. They all abandon him, but he saves more people anyway, then dies.
― Lara Murphy (MissLara), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
Consumerism sucks. But not as much as death. Actually it's not so bad. Unlike death. Also, the art of being funny by not being funny.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
I hate my life. Almost as much as Marla. Anarchy is liberating. No, anarchy is bad. Wait, anarchy is, I don't know. Ask me. The other me.
― PuzzleMonkey, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
"Boy, the meat trade really fucks you up, doesn't it?"
Jane Eyre:
"Everybody who gets in my way, suffers. MWA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
― Paul G. Jennings (Paul G. Jennings), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
Bond only eats margerine from Fortnums. Bond wears P.J.s. Bond is good at everything. Bond feels bad about killing. Bond hates women but shags many. Author has teeny-tiny penis.
― David Nolan (David N.), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago) link
India's cool. I want to fuck my brother. My mom's lover got lynched. India's not so cool.
― otto, Friday, 27 February 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
I was raped and murdered. Still, look on the bright side.
― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Friday, 27 February 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago) link
The bastard lied to me.
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 27 February 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
Rich people are cool, especially Catholic ones.
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 27 February 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link
Whitney Houston made me do it.
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 27 February 2004 13:29 (twenty years ago) link
God can be a right bastard sometimes.
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 27 February 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
Boo, Grover Cleveland. Boo.
― Oddrey, Friday, 27 February 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
Stuff makes other stuff happen.
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link