Summarise a Novel in 25 Words

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Virgina Woolf: ORLANDO

Guy turns inexplicable into a woman. No one seems to notice for 400 years. In the end baby is born. Who's the mother?

Rux Dum (Rux_Dum), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Io uccido, di Giorgio Faletti.

Un terribile serial killer è imprendibile, perchè minaccia sempre i potenziali testimoni: se non ci dici niente agli inquirenti, ti regalo un bel giumbotto.

Ma la metropoli è piccola, e la gente MORMORA.

Ok. E' troppo difficile?

fiorenzo desiderio (morias), Saturday, 5 November 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

City of Glass by Paul Auster

I'm going to get to the bottom of the mystery of ... what was I doing again?

Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 6 November 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Music of Chance by Paul Auster

I'm going on a long road trip so I can ... what was I doing again?

Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 6 November 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
fvjh ugy h

miy wong, Monday, 28 November 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

lol women be wanting rights, men don't care - tell funny stories. clerk licks asshole.

-- The Canterbury Tales

Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link

who are you? i hate you. o shit this is hell lol. this sux. girl2girl lez sex?

-- No Exit, Sartre

(I don't care if it's not a novel, it's one of my favorite works of literature)

Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The Neon Bible - John Kennedy Toole
Kid in small town. Dad goes to war, dies. Mom goes nuts, dies, gets buried in back yard. Preacher comes by to take her to take her to mental ward, gets PWNED. Kid runs off. mookbookhttp://www.jazztimes.com/reviews/concert_reviews/grphx/leroyjenkins.jpg . . .

ddasd, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
100 years of solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

was swamp, teen pregnancy the norm, juntas, pestolence, endless rain, names irrelevant in a latin kind of way, society dissolves into what returns to swamp.

(I only included this review because the other review wasnt 25 words)

johnson jackson chaffin, Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

watchfiends and rack screams // antonin artaud

human phallus, french poop sex, priests = asses, naked, utterly batshit, still french, syphillitic delerium, lots of talk about "god's cunt" still french. dead. still french.

johnson jackson chaffin, Saturday, 14 January 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

dalton trumbo // johnny got his gun

soldier blown up, can't communicate, remembers code, asks to die. too bad its before movies were invented:
in the movie version they help him die.

johnson jackson chaffin, Saturday, 14 January 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Practically every novel John le Carre has written:

Charming but unbalanced spy/diplomat goes off the rails. Dies, preferably in ironic manner.

chap who would dare to work for the man (chap), Sunday, 15 January 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

muppet movie picture book //

frog seeks stardom in Los Angeles, seduces bilingual pig, befriends studebaker-driving bear, rainbow-centric songs, suck-free cameos, no muppets end up turning tricks on Sunset Boulevard.

johnson jackson chaffin, Monday, 16 January 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
I'm in search of the novel called oliver thwist, the somary of it

agbams ugochukwu, Friday, 10 February 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Brutally honest and emotionally charged, it tells the story of Oliver Twist. Oliver is a boy, raised by his prostitute mother. In an endearingly perverse way to earn his mother’s respect and love, he sets out to join the ‘lot lizards’, selling himself for sex to truckers in the local parking lot. So with curly blonde Shirley Temple curls, Oliver, clad in a short leather skirt, and adopting his mother’s name ‘Sarah’, does just that.

tom west (thomp), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
These are all the books we've read so far in my English class. See if you can spot the pattern.

Beloved by Morrison:
Slavery sucked. My sons ran away and I'm haunted by my baby's ghost. HOLY SHIT SHE'S BACK! Wait, where are we? Hey, she killed her daughter!

The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald:
Friend changes his life for a girl. She's married to a rich racist. I'm in the middle and I don't care. Money will kill you.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain:
Slavery sucks. I'm too racist to like this guy. I'm having an adventure to escape my evil dad. Oh crap I've been caught.

Native Son by Wright:
Racism still sucks. African-American kid in Chicago accidentally kills a white girl. That must mean all black people suck! Long speech in trial explains everything.

And now just for fun, two novellas by me. The first one is available at www.cyberheroez.inetgames.com and the second is in progress

Cyber Heroez:
Teenage nerd based on author goes into video game world, uses powers to fight giant glove. Almost dies, and his brother cries. Magically has idea.

The Centaur:
In the future, things are normal. Weird scientist mistakes fantasy for history and changes the world. Centaur finds him, tells him how much life sucks.

UnknownWarrior33, Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Johnny Tremain:
The revolutionary war had no technology, tanks, or drill seargents. Maybe a deformed guy will make it interesting. No? Well, it was worth a try.

UnknownWarrior33, Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

The Animorphs series:
Kids and aliens turn into animals to fight smaller aliens that crawl into your head and take over your body. Series' end screwed everything up.

UnknownWarrior33, Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link

The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq-

One scientist brother, one horny brother. Women they can't love wither and die. Finally men are extinct, cloned women inherit world. Is that an apology?

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 4 March 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

The entire history of the human race:

War, hate, disease, famine, poverty, anger, rioting, rape, crime, theft, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, drug addiction, fear and I got laid last night. Thouroghruly worthwhile.

Rob Wright A.K.A. Ned the viking, Saturday, 18 March 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"

Don't bother reading this, just pinch yourself and chop onions till you cry.

Rob Wright A.K.A. Ned the viking, Saturday, 18 March 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Romeo and Juliet
2 14 year olds meet and marry in three days. They relise what a mistake they have made and kill themselves

Brita, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 07:16 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
A journey of friendship. The temptation. To destroy the one ring.

frodo baggins, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link

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hispam, Friday, 28 April 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien:

Everything in this book is a total lie, but it's still true for the psychological reasons I say it is. Or maybe I'm just crazy.

UnknownWarrior33 (unknownwarrior33), Sunday, 14 May 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"Anthem" by Ayn Rand

We fell in love with them and now the two of us want to escape. I'm glad I found her. Society is evil.

UnknownWarrior33 (unknownwarrior33), Sunday, 14 May 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
Iain M. Banks

Consider Phlebas

Intergalactic Mind-fuck in which main character does a fair bit of lots of things

David James Cruse (Day In Day out Day In Day Out), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell

Admiral sails ...
Victorean charlatan composes ...
70's reporter ...
Publisher ...
Future clone escapes ...
postapocalyptic civilization sucks like all
... tolitarian oppression
... is institutionalized
... exposes corporate malfeasance
... music
... pacific

Camiel (Camiel), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...
‘The Bluest Eye’ by Toni Morrison

Young, unattractive black girl wants to have blue eyes in order to look prettier. Prays to God every day. Gets nailed by her father instead.

Al Harris (Spotter), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE

THOSE WHO DARE...TRIP THEIR BALLS OFF. THOSE WHO DON'T, LIVE WITH ONLY THE ONE REALITY OF CONSCIENCE.

David James Cruse (Day In Day out Day In Day Out), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

Gremlins(the movie)
RTFM.

lattegrappa, Sunday, 26 September 2010 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link


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