Summarise a Novel in 25 Words

Brother Of Sleep - Robert Schneider

endogamy made me a real good organ player.

Stupid White Men - Michael Moore

better be white...and rich...or move to europe

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
egg, caterpillar, pupa, butterfly

You're ugly, you're alone, you're thirsty. You're a SON OF A BITCH on shining wheels!

Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski

You're ugly, you're alone, you're thirsty. You're a SON OF A BITCH on shining wheels!

Vacuum Diagramms -- Stephen Baxter

500 Billion years, Entropy wins

Das Boot -- Buchheim

war sucks, life in a submarine, too

Apologia Sokratous -- Platon

democracy and justice don't work

Odysse -- Homer

Don't mess with gods, or u'll stay on sea

De bello gallico -- G.J. Caesar

wow, he is (I am) such a clever conqueror!!

the nights dawn trilogy -- peter hamilton

sex leads to undead leads to sex

Faust -- J.W. Goethe

u can fool Satan

A Canticle For Leibowitz -- W.M. Miller

life's a loop..

Joel-Peter Rifkin - "55"
If you are sick in the head, like photography, art and necrophilia - move to the mexican-american border.

"the rise and fall of the Third Reich" - William L. Shirer

The Third Reich rises at first and then falls *g* Nazis piss off!

Hunter S. Thomspon -- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

Two guys go to Las Vegas where they consume almost any drug known to mankind since 1492. When finished, they leave without getting into any trouble.

"the da vinci code" by dan brown

harvard symbol-geek searches a dead woman while beeing chased by a weird french o.O

The End of History. Where do we stand? by Francis Fukuyama

American-style Democracy rulez. Capitalism rulez. Everything else sucks. Free Trade leads to American-style democracy. If it takes Dictatorship to make capitalism happen it´s OK.

Prey, by Michael Crichton:

Shit, my wife betrays me! Shit, my wife betrays me with a former colleage! Oh shit, both have become evil man-eating nanorobot-slaves! Screw them both!

Fiasko, by Stanislaw Lem:

Let´s go find some intelligent life forms and make first contact. What, they don´t want to? Too bad, then we´ll have to exterminate them all.

The Astronauts, by Stanislaw Lem:

Four Astronauts go to Venus. They tell a lot of anecdotes about science. Venus is a dead planet. What the f**k happened here?

Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa:

Boy becomes Samurai, kills a lot enemies and never gets laid once in the course of 1170 pages even though he had plenty of opportunity.

Stuff will happen exactly like THIS because you just threw yarrow stalks into the air. Greatness. Do not falter. The weak will fail. Persistence prevails.

Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson:

Stylish Delivery Boy meets stylish Delivery Girl. They save the world. Stylish Delivery Boy gets foxy Hacker Girl. Mafia owes Stylish Delivery Girl a favour.

"Metamorphosis" by Kafka

A guy awakes, regrets it almost instantly for he has turned into a bug while sleeping. Terrorises his family. Gets what he deserves.

"Master and Margarete" by Bulgakov

Never fuck with Mephisto unless you are a good friend of Jesus. Than it'll work out.

"The Name Of The Rose"

Holmes and wAdson hit the middleages, solve the riddle and get rid of the old guy.

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Fascists are to be fought. Commies/Republicans are dumb and/or cruel. One can not hinder the fascists to win, only die fighting them.

Rules for Summaries
(actually, a few modest hints, I'm a foreigner everywhere)

1. Describe, don't comment
2. Don't try to be smarter that the book you've read.
3. Always imagine your audience doesn't know the book.

hey, that are less than 25 words :-)

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"Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures" by Kyoko Mori

Life in Japan: Mom kills self; hates everyone. Life in America: whines about Mom killing self; hates everyone.

X/1999 series by CLAMP

It takes me over 1000 pages before I make a decision. Crap, now my best friend wants to kill me.

-- Insomnia -- Stephen King

Fresh Widower faces colour trip by quitting sleeping. Discovers new dimensions. Saves all of them. Abandons new love dying in a pathetic self-sacrifice.

Softmachine / William S. Burroughs

Cock. Arse. Cum. Drugs. Southamerica. Human insects. More cocks. More cum. More drugs. All in a blender.

Lolita / Vladimir Nabukov

Writer sexually obsessed by little girls. Marries mother, loves daughter. Mother dies. F**ks daughter. Drives around. Kills daughters secret pedophil lover.

"Much ado about nothing" by Shakespeare

Messina 1600: Two couples like each other but can't show. They find together and the bads are killed or stopped.

Return of the King, Tolkien

"Oi Gandalf! No! Why couldn't the giant eagles have flown us here in the first place?"

Schiller, Räuber

Young people frighten nuns.

Best regards,

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Homo Faber - Max Frisch

Man retuns from South America to Europe. By the way f***s own daughter. Meet her mom, notice what he've done.

Little people find jewellery that belongs to big people and travel miles to burn them.
-- dog latin (doglati...), February 24th, 2004.

Lord of The Rings -ha ha!

The war is finally over and has left us all a bit fucked up. London is burning. What's the point of life anymore?

7 habits of highly effective people
make a bunch of lists. Think about stuff. Brush your teeth. Get a haircut. Floss after meals. Numb the pain with drugs. Don’t talk to strangers.

I think that's the general gist of it... never read it properly. forgot to put it on my list.

*quote*
Rules for Summaries
(actually, a few modest hints, I'm a foreigner everywhere)

1. Describe, don't comment
2. Don't try to be smarter than the book you've read.
3. Always imagine your audience doesn't know the book.

*/quote off*

4. Don't follow any smart ass rules but do as you think it should be done

'H' - Christiane F.
(True Story of)

Young girl, unhappy. Pot, heroin,. Prostitution, finds love. Best friend dies, moves to grandma’s, happy, unhappy, drugs. Back to city more drugs. Carries on living.

Harry Potter by Joanne K. Rowling:
Young wizard is fighting against the bad wizards.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov:

"Passionate feelings about young girls especially the one and only child Lolita don't ever let middle-aged Humbert Humbert rest. Pychologically great written in the victim's point of view. Unhappy, open end."

By the way, your forum/thread is mentioned in German DER SPIEGEL... as through the intire world-press I think :-)

HeRMaNN HeSSe. SiDDHaRTHa.

Peace, man.
(or)
Don't eat and smile, you're in India.

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

Man goes OTT concocting story as to why he was late home from the pub.

I'll join the army. War is hell. People want wars. People are idiots. People are also selfish cruel pieces of sh*t. Proved again, again, again,...

Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford:

Southern White Trash break parole and act like idiots but its OK as they're Elvis fans.

Lord of the Flies - William Golding.

Religious stuff. Hysteria. Hope no-one notices the cop-out deus ex machina ending.

The Chrysalids - John Wyndham.

Religious stuff. Hysteria. Hope no-one notices the cop-out deus ex machina ending.

"I Capture The Castle" - Dodie Smith

My artistic family's living in ruins. Enter American brothers, heirs.
My selfish sister dazzles both while I scribble deep thoughts and pine in my tower.

Any Harlan Coben mystery (with the possible exception of the Myron Bolitar ones): Five different stories are started. Someone disappears. A significant other of the disapearee solves finds them, tying up all loose ends in all five stories.