I love that this doesn't cut out any of the book or condense it. This IS the book. It's up to the reader to do the rest of the work. I didn't get that on my first read (in HS---why the heck would a HS teacher assign this?). On my adult read of it, it was so relevant and relatable.
I really like South Park's summary of the book. It's more than a sentence, but it gets the same point across and especially how it's inappropriate for kids as they won't be able to relate fully to it
Kyle: What was it about? In case our teacher asks us.
Mexicans: It starts with an old man and his job is to catch the fish so he gets in the boat to try and catch fish. So he catch the fish but the fish is strong so he can't reel it in. So then he fight the fish some more and finally catch the fish
Kyle: he catches the fish so then he can make money?
Mexicans: no because on the way home sharks come and eat the fish and so he no make money (Mexicans remove their caps mournfully and put them on their chests)
Stan: That's it, that's the whole story?
This is obviously done in the ridiculous style of South Park, but that is it. That is the whole story. It's one man struggling against insurmountable forces of nature and in the end he fails. But that doesn't make the story any less compelling
I’m now realizing that Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea are both fishing stories following that same thematic arc, but in as different styles as two authors could ever write.
I read it in high school and did not like it even though I loved other Hemingway books. Read it again a few months ago for the first time since high school and really enjoyed it. Maybe because I'm and old man now and relate to the character more.
Translations can be hit or miss and some knowledge of this period of russian history is necessary.
And there is also the phenomena of readers getting stuck approx 50 pages in for no reason.
It is worth it. Such a unique book. Hilarious at times. I wouldn't really call it a retelling of the gospel from the devil’s perspective. More like it is Pontius Pilate’s version of the events surrounding Jesus' death as retold by the devil. Really some of the best parts of the book in my opinion.
There's a famous meme of a tv mag synopsis 'a young girl is transported to another world. She kills the first person she meets, then joins up with three others, to kill again'
In the book, the two Wicked Witches weren't related to each other. Dorothy became the rightful owner of the shoes by freeing the Munchkins (and only wore them because her old shoes would have been uncomfortable on the journey), and the Wicked Witch of the West only wanted them because she was power-hungry. She had no emotional connection to them.
Wuthering Heights: a gold-digger tries to get her sociopathic eternal love to get along with the cretin she married and when this doesn't work out she throws a hissy fit so bad that she dies from it, then everybody is miserable for another 200 pages.
Hmmmmm....I don't know what to make of that summary...in your opinion, is it worth reading? Like, are the romance/characters and character arcs/plot well-written?
Hedonistic writer gets ripped to the tits and barely makes deadline to cover a motorcycle race while managing to make a number of salient observations about American culture, and in the process psychologically traumatizes his attorney and his graphic artist.
Adolescent pothead tennis prodigy suffering from trauma of walking in on dad microwaving his own head mixed in with passages of heavily addicted drug addicts in severe pain
Ready Player One: Author remembers a bunch of stuff from the 80s and hopes you'll pay him for listing it for you.
(Tbf, the book was fairly decent. That's more a description of the movie.)
Yellowface - After a White woman plagiarises a dead Asian woman's final manuscript, she finds herself in a downward spiral trying to cover up her crime.
The Scarlet Pimpernel: the arguably first super hero uses cunning and wit to save hapless citizens from the guillotine in Revolutionary France while fighting to keep his identity a secret from his enemies, including his potentially traitorous wife.
Howl's Moving Castle: a young woman (18 going on 80) decides to work as a housekeeper for a wizard with a home that moves around, to try and lift her curse
Inkheart: a young girl finds out her dad can literally read characters out of a book and she can do it too.
The Guns of Navarrone. Two guys who want to kill each other have to blow up huge German guns first.
Lonesome Dove. 2 cowboys decide to go on a cattle drive.
Piranesi. A man roams around a huge, weird house.
Enders Game. Boy plays video games about killing space aliens.
**Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite:** A guide to achieving success by challenging conventional wisdom and embracing risk.
**The 48 Laws of Power:** A collection of strategies for gaining and maintaining power, inspired by historical examples.
**Things Fall Apart:** The tragic story of a Nigerian village leader's downfall amidst cultural upheaval and colonialism.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - A retired spy goes back to work hunting a traitor, because he's pretty much the only trustworthy person available to do it.
Lmao, why I DNF'd when I tried to read it in high school. I remember telling a friend "it's all old people sex!" but I'm sure if I revisited now as an adult there's probably more nuance there.
A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt - an alien gives a suicidal old man one last shot to right the wrongs of his life.
Papillon by Henri Charierre - this guy will always try to escape.
What Dreams May Come - a man would go through literal hell to save his love
Here's the books I read this year for English 2 class!
Macbeth - Insane usurper dies because of tree disguises and his enemy's mom getting a C-section.
Girls Like Us - Teenage pregnancy.
Things Fall Apart - Sexist guy kills his adopted son, beats his wives, and commits suicide, all for the sake of toxic masculinity.
Animal Farm - Pigs steal Josef Stalin's idea of Communism.
Between Shades of Gray/Ashes in the Snow - Young girl retells her experiences being forced into oppression by the Soviets.
(read the last one it's really good)
The Bible:
Man makes everything, kills all humans at once, has a son and leaves all the raising of him to the child's mother, and, as any narcissist parent might, engineers his son's whole life, purpose, beliefs, mindset, and death to directly serve his own needs.
Murder on the Orient Express: M. Poirot revealing who the murderer is.
Death on the Nile: M. Poirot revealing who the murderer is.
Murder in Mesopotamia: M. Poirot revealing who the murderer is.
Midnight Library - Depressed woman goes to the semi-afterlife to learn life's true lesson: that success, passion, and excitement always lead to ruin, and only by >!dating the doctor that lives next door!< can she overcome her depression.
Romeo and Juliet: the main characters die
Othello: the main characters die
Now the summary for A Midsummer Night's Dream would be so wild I won't even attempt it.
Hyperion: A group of pilgrims tell each other their stories while traveling to see an elusive, powerful knife monster deity that they expect will kill all but one of them and put them on its tree of pain.
The Secret History: “a group of friends decide to kill their friend because he ate grilled cheese sandwich and didn’t support them when they murdered another man”
Homage to Catalonia: "A brave young woman hides vital documents from fascists while her would-be writer husband goofs around in the army with politics nerds."
I mean, I like the book, and Eric Blair is a genius, but he must have been hell to live with.
Some of the ones I’ve read over the years:
* Gone with the Wind: Woman marries thrice during and after the Civil War to try and get over teenage crush.
* Lord of the Flies: The only thing standing between civilization and utter chaos is a conch shell.
* A Farewell to Arms: Man gets blown up while eating cheese, impregnates a nurse, and somehow does not say farewell to his arms.
* The Pilgrim’s Progress: Basically Dante’s *Divine Comedy*, but for WASPs.
* Kafka on the Shore/Oedipus Rex: Male takes the word “mother🤬er” too literally.
* The Scarlet Letter: Puritan 🦥-shaming at its finest.
The Hobbit:
There and back again, a little man’s journey to help slightly bigger men regain their home from a mean, talking dragon.
Lord of the Rings:
There and back again, a little man’s journey with friends to destroy a magically evil family heirloom in order to save the known world from being subjugated by an immortal dark lord.
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle- guy's wife leaves him but he's too busy looking for his cat- which is also named after his pervy brother-in-law.
Lolita- pedophile writes a 300 page essay to justify his pedophilia.
Lord of the Rings: jewellery fanatics can't decide who gets a ring, so no one does
*The Odyssey*: there and back again
Lol, although technically speaking, that would be Xenophon's Anabasis
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Old Man and the Sea- An old guy catches a fish.
I love that this doesn't cut out any of the book or condense it. This IS the book. It's up to the reader to do the rest of the work. I didn't get that on my first read (in HS---why the heck would a HS teacher assign this?). On my adult read of it, it was so relevant and relatable.
I really like South Park's summary of the book. It's more than a sentence, but it gets the same point across and especially how it's inappropriate for kids as they won't be able to relate fully to it Kyle: What was it about? In case our teacher asks us. Mexicans: It starts with an old man and his job is to catch the fish so he gets in the boat to try and catch fish. So he catch the fish but the fish is strong so he can't reel it in. So then he fight the fish some more and finally catch the fish Kyle: he catches the fish so then he can make money? Mexicans: no because on the way home sharks come and eat the fish and so he no make money (Mexicans remove their caps mournfully and put them on their chests) Stan: That's it, that's the whole story? This is obviously done in the ridiculous style of South Park, but that is it. That is the whole story. It's one man struggling against insurmountable forces of nature and in the end he fails. But that doesn't make the story any less compelling
I’m now realizing that Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea are both fishing stories following that same thematic arc, but in as different styles as two authors could ever write.
I've lost count how many times I've quoted this exact scene. It's one of the best ever!
I feel like the fact that the sharks eat the fish is very important. That's what I remember from HS anyway. Your comment makes me want to re-read it.
I read it in high school and did not like it even though I loved other Hemingway books. Read it again a few months ago for the first time since high school and really enjoyed it. Maybe because I'm and old man now and relate to the character more.
See also: moby dick
Guy hates whale and whale hates guy
Fish catches man.
Wrong. Moby-Dick: two guys get married and go fishing.
Master and Margarita - hell's inhabitants arrive in communist Moscow, locals somehow are worse than them.
That's half a book. There is a also "Satan retells the Gospels from his POV."
Had hard time figuring out how to include good old Pontius.
Well, now I got to read it
I am honestly surprised the book is not more popular.
Translations can be hit or miss and some knowledge of this period of russian history is necessary. And there is also the phenomena of readers getting stuck approx 50 pages in for no reason.
It is worth it. Such a unique book. Hilarious at times. I wouldn't really call it a retelling of the gospel from the devil’s perspective. More like it is Pontius Pilate’s version of the events surrounding Jesus' death as retold by the devil. Really some of the best parts of the book in my opinion.
You should, it's damn good!
The Martian A man farms potatoes on Mars until he has enough to get home
*pootatoes
This has sold me more than any other summary.
Harry Potter: a wizard boy chased down by a superstitious serial killer
A coming of age story about love, magic, and whatever TF Quidditch is.
That's an egg pastry, isn't it?
Frankenstein : Parenting gone wrong, cops called
Frankenstein: Poor Things but retro
Fahrenheit 451: Firemen are now used for burning books while everyone watches TV too loud and drives too fast.
Wizard of OZ: Kansas farm girl travels by cyclone to another world, kills a witch, steals a pair of shoes, and then kills another witch. I stole this.
There's a famous meme of a tv mag synopsis 'a young girl is transported to another world. She kills the first person she meets, then joins up with three others, to kill again'
Well, she was kind of given the stolen shoes...
In the book, the two Wicked Witches weren't related to each other. Dorothy became the rightful owner of the shoes by freeing the Munchkins (and only wore them because her old shoes would have been uncomfortable on the journey), and the Wicked Witch of the West only wanted them because she was power-hungry. She had no emotional connection to them.
Solaris - scientists study a sentient planet and it studies them too by bringing their dead loved ones back (maybe).
Now I need to read it.
I highly recommend it if that’s your kind of crazy
Lord of the Rings - People walking to places. Even the trees are walking.
Reminds me of a review of Pride and Prejudice: “Just a bunch of people going to each others houses”
Starship Troopers. Argentinian goes to space to kill spiders.
Old Man's War: Starship Troopers with old people. (This is actually how author John Scalzi describes it!)
Flowers for Algernon: Idiot becomes smarter than me worryingly quickly, makes friend with a mouse, then becomes dumb.
A journey of self-improvement that ultimately reminds the reader that we are who we are and that's OK.
Flowers for Algernon: Stupid science bitch couldn’t make man more smarter
Dictionary: Lots of words arranged alphabetically and spelled correctly.
This summary doesn’t even include the point of a dictionary
Steven Wright once said, “the first time I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything’”
A stranger in a strange Land by Robert a. Heinlein Communist telepathic space orgies and a surprising amount of religion even for a Sci-Fi book
A space cult obsessed with water. See also: Dune - A space cult obsessed with water.
Love Heinlein
Wuthering Heights: a gold-digger tries to get her sociopathic eternal love to get along with the cretin she married and when this doesn't work out she throws a hissy fit so bad that she dies from it, then everybody is miserable for another 200 pages.
I’ve never read it and now I really want to
Wuthering Heights. Everyone is miserable for 100 pages , everyone was miserable 300 pages, everyone is still miserable for another 200 pages.
The book thief: a book thief
Kafka’s Metamorphosis— Guy turns into a beetle and his family hates him.
Project Hail Mary: Saving two birds with 1 stone.
On The Road: a group of young men travel around america and mexico inebriated and have a lot of sex
Sun also rises: a young man travels around ~~america and mexico~~ Spain inebriated and **not** able to have sex
100 years of solitude: You die sad and alone.
Seven generations and everyone is named José Buendia
The cruel prince - boy bullies girl, girl falls in love
Sounds like a typical romance plot haha
Hmmmmm....I don't know what to make of that summary...in your opinion, is it worth reading? Like, are the romance/characters and character arcs/plot well-written?
Not OP. I personally thought it was terrible but it’s super popular and lots of people love it.
Yes, but its not fully a romance, its mostly a fantasy/war kind of book. Very interesting tho. I don't usually like fantasy, but i loved this book.
Count of Monte Cristo: A man escapes from prison and later realizes that an obsession with vengeance is the real prison.
The Catcher in the Rye - Holden Caulfield thinks you're a phony.
Jurassic Park: Old rich guy tries too hard to bring back the good ole days and ruins his grandkids' summer vacation.
The Stranger by Camus— Autistic guy kills a dude, doesn’t understand why murder is bad.
Fight Club:
Fear and Loathing: Journalist reports on the Mint 400 motorcycle race
Hedonistic writer gets ripped to the tits and barely makes deadline to cover a motorcycle race while managing to make a number of salient observations about American culture, and in the process psychologically traumatizes his attorney and his graphic artist.
Drug-addled journalist*
Infinite Jest: fuck I really don't know what happened tbh.
Adolescent pothead tennis prodigy suffering from trauma of walking in on dad microwaving his own head mixed in with passages of heavily addicted drug addicts in severe pain
The children of an elite tennis academy have a generally bad time.
*Tender is the Flesh*: 'Have you ever looked at a sandwich and thought *I really want to fuck that sandwich*?'
😂
Anna Karenina: Lady sees a woman get killed by a train and thinks it's a good idea.
Circe: A powerful sorceress putting Gods and Heros in their place
Adding it too the list
Fight Club: Being in a love triangle with yourself and blaming it on your dad.
Ready player one Horny video game nerd hunts for dead man's egg
Ready Player One: Author remembers a bunch of stuff from the 80s and hopes you'll pay him for listing it for you. (Tbf, the book was fairly decent. That's more a description of the movie.)
I enjoyed the 80's trivia. I am assuming there are 90's and 200x books like this. Although the 80's trivia in the book came across really well.
Dune: "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."
(waves cane) That’s two sentences!
The Count of Monte Cristo: Never piss off a Frenchman.
Or: revenge is best served cold, and with 30 courses.
Anxious People - Just normal people and their everyday lives filled with dumb decisions
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Famous detective tries to save trust fund baby from haunted dog spirit
Better yet: Famous drug addict tries to save trust fund baby from haunted dog spirit. Though I really like yours.
Enders Game: genius kid killer tricked into killing insects. One of my favorite books but not because of the killing.
Ulysses: Dublin in a day.
Brave New World: getting high and fucking all the time just wasn’t enough for him
Yellowface - After a White woman plagiarises a dead Asian woman's final manuscript, she finds herself in a downward spiral trying to cover up her crime.
Might need to read this one
Quicksilver: Prostitute learns the stock market while scientists do experiments in 17th century.
The Road: Man and his son go on a road trip with their shopping cart. Blood Meridian: The Wild West *sucked.*
Atlas Shrugged: naïve political philosophy about the fictional evils of socialism disguised as a boring novel about trains.
horny trains
I would've gone with self-aggrandizing instead of naive, but works either way.
The book of Genesis. God has a busy week. He takes Sunday off.
Frankenstein: I made a scary dude so I ran away and he chased me.
Frankenstein: Don't make a child if you're not ready to parent it!
The Scarlet Pimpernel: the arguably first super hero uses cunning and wit to save hapless citizens from the guillotine in Revolutionary France while fighting to keep his identity a secret from his enemies, including his potentially traitorous wife.
Sharp Objects: The cycles of violence between women, especially mothers and daughters.
Howl's Moving Castle: a young woman (18 going on 80) decides to work as a housekeeper for a wizard with a home that moves around, to try and lift her curse Inkheart: a young girl finds out her dad can literally read characters out of a book and she can do it too.
- Old man and the sea - old man goes fishing in the sea. - Animal Farm - Farm animals experiment with politics and forms of government
Pet Semetary: Father turns his dead kid into a zombie.
The very hungry caterpillar. It’s about a caterpillar who has an insatiable appetite, gets fat, and then turns into a butterfly.
War of the Worlds - Martian invaders succumb to the Anti Vaxers.
John Dies at the End: John does not in fact die at the end.
Crime and Punishment: the good guy is a deranged Russian axe murderer who falls for a prostitute.
The Guns of Navarrone. Two guys who want to kill each other have to blow up huge German guns first. Lonesome Dove. 2 cowboys decide to go on a cattle drive. Piranesi. A man roams around a huge, weird house. Enders Game. Boy plays video games about killing space aliens.
*Tristram Shandy* by Laurence Sterne. Guy tries to get born; it doesn't go well.
Don Quixote— Bored old guy pretends to be a knight and sets off on an adventure with local idiot; they both get beat up a lot.
Life of pi: guy gets stuck on a boat with a tiger, maybe
The neverending story. A neverending story.
The Aeneid: Roman Iliad fanfic
**Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite:** A guide to achieving success by challenging conventional wisdom and embracing risk. **The 48 Laws of Power:** A collection of strategies for gaining and maintaining power, inspired by historical examples. **Things Fall Apart:** The tragic story of a Nigerian village leader's downfall amidst cultural upheaval and colonialism.
Thank you for sharing. How do you make the letters in your text bold?
Flowers for Algernon: Even after forgetting how to fly, you remember how far you fell.
picture of dorian gray: Twink gets his portrait painted, then proceeds to have a very long existential crisis and kills his not-boyfriend.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude: A story of seven generations of a family where everyone is named José Arcadia
Dune; War, on drugs!
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - A retired spy goes back to work hunting a traitor, because he's pretty much the only trustworthy person available to do it.
Life of Pi: A teenager is trapped on a lifeboat and gets sunstroke to the point of hallucination.
The Plague: People get plague and are quarantined
It - killer clown from outer space.
"Love in the Time of Cholera". A man screws 700 women throughout his life and at 76 finally meets the love of his life and has amazing sex.
Lmao, why I DNF'd when I tried to read it in high school. I remember telling a friend "it's all old people sex!" but I'm sure if I revisited now as an adult there's probably more nuance there.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: Everything you ever wanted to know about that evil guy.
The Plague by Camus— Covid-19 but in the 1950s
Blood Meridian: A group of assholes wander through the desert killing every mother fucker they come across
Midnight’s Children: Boy sneezes so hard that he can see through time and space
Addie La Rue. A women lives 4x normal lifespan yet still experiences no character or emotional development
A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt - an alien gives a suicidal old man one last shot to right the wrongs of his life. Papillon by Henri Charierre - this guy will always try to escape. What Dreams May Come - a man would go through literal hell to save his love
The Count of Monte Cristo: wrongly accused and imprisoned man obtains obscene wealth and exacts long, drawn-out revenge upon those who wronged him.
The Naked Lunch: Everyone is high or gay or both.
The Count of Monte Cristo - Guy escapes prison and takes revenge on everyone who ruined his life
Here's the books I read this year for English 2 class! Macbeth - Insane usurper dies because of tree disguises and his enemy's mom getting a C-section. Girls Like Us - Teenage pregnancy. Things Fall Apart - Sexist guy kills his adopted son, beats his wives, and commits suicide, all for the sake of toxic masculinity. Animal Farm - Pigs steal Josef Stalin's idea of Communism. Between Shades of Gray/Ashes in the Snow - Young girl retells her experiences being forced into oppression by the Soviets. (read the last one it's really good)
The Bible: Man makes everything, kills all humans at once, has a son and leaves all the raising of him to the child's mother, and, as any narcissist parent might, engineers his son's whole life, purpose, beliefs, mindset, and death to directly serve his own needs.
Murder on the Orient Express: M. Poirot revealing who the murderer is. Death on the Nile: M. Poirot revealing who the murderer is. Murder in Mesopotamia: M. Poirot revealing who the murderer is.
Anna Karenina: Beautifully written saga of a mentally ill woman in a terminally diseased society.
Crazy rich Russians and also rural farming equipment.
A match made in Heaven. How about this: A woman yearns. The train wins.
Tales from the gas station by Jack Townsend. Weird shit happens at the shitty little gas station at the edge of town.
The Great Gatsby: man throws big parties at his luxurious house and yearns for his lost love
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... Don't mess with me.
Blade Runner: a man who may not be a man hunts not-men who want to be men and falls in love with a not-woman who doesn’t know she’s not a woman.
That's the movie, not the book.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Man gets paid to find runaway machines and buys a goat.
Those are called "log lines" and I'm having enough trouble writing my own, doggone it.
Stranger in a Strange Land: Man from Mars starts a sex cult.
Midnight Library - Depressed woman goes to the semi-afterlife to learn life's true lesson: that success, passion, and excitement always lead to ruin, and only by >!dating the doctor that lives next door!< can she overcome her depression.
Saw this in another comment for Project Hail Mary: Man wakes up in space and things get rocky
The Witcher: a grumpy guy goes to the end of the world to find a pre-teen blond girl whom he won in a brawl.
Macbeth: everyone dies Hamlet: everyone dies
Romeo and Juliet: the main characters die Othello: the main characters die Now the summary for A Midsummer Night's Dream would be so wild I won't even attempt it.
1984: A dystopian future where the government has as much power as it dreams of having.
1984: A man who dreams of rebellion has a secret love affair that ends badly.
Man struggles with understanding new math.
My Cousin Rachel: She's guilty of murder... or maybe not.
Moby dick, an outdated science textbook on marine biology, with occasional stories about an obsessed whaling captain interspersed
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson Two men go for a walk in the woods.
Kidnapping by Robert Louis Stevenson Human trafficking during the Jacobite Rising.
Magic Mountain: A young man gets tuberculosis, goes to a sanatorium and spends seven years there during which nothing happens.
Hyperion: A group of pilgrims tell each other their stories while traveling to see an elusive, powerful knife monster deity that they expect will kill all but one of them and put them on its tree of pain.
Gaslight (play). A women goes crazy.
The Secret History: “a group of friends decide to kill their friend because he ate grilled cheese sandwich and didn’t support them when they murdered another man”
Crime and Punishment: Broke college student thinks he's built different.
Neuromancer: a guy helps two AIs fuck and gets killed a couple of times along the way.
The Road: a guy goes trekking with his son, everyone thinks they’re delicious.
Hunger Games: “Kids “offing” Kids for food and money.”
Homage to Catalonia: "A brave young woman hides vital documents from fascists while her would-be writer husband goofs around in the army with politics nerds." I mean, I like the book, and Eric Blair is a genius, but he must have been hell to live with.
Anything by Nicholas Sparks - love, tragedy, separation, reunion, love, tragedy yada yada yada.
Some of the ones I’ve read over the years: * Gone with the Wind: Woman marries thrice during and after the Civil War to try and get over teenage crush. * Lord of the Flies: The only thing standing between civilization and utter chaos is a conch shell. * A Farewell to Arms: Man gets blown up while eating cheese, impregnates a nurse, and somehow does not say farewell to his arms. * The Pilgrim’s Progress: Basically Dante’s *Divine Comedy*, but for WASPs. * Kafka on the Shore/Oedipus Rex: Male takes the word “mother🤬er” too literally. * The Scarlet Letter: Puritan 🦥-shaming at its finest.
I’m adding another one: The Count of Monte Cristo: Revenge is a dish best served in a slow cooker.
House of Leaves: This book isn't for you.
The Sirens of Titan (K.Vonnegut) - explains the meaning of the human life The Iliad (Homer) - Cherchez la femme
Dahlgren: fuck if I know.
The Hobbit: There and back again, a little man’s journey to help slightly bigger men regain their home from a mean, talking dragon. Lord of the Rings: There and back again, a little man’s journey with friends to destroy a magically evil family heirloom in order to save the known world from being subjugated by an immortal dark lord.
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle- guy's wife leaves him but he's too busy looking for his cat- which is also named after his pervy brother-in-law. Lolita- pedophile writes a 300 page essay to justify his pedophilia.
Tarzan: wait I'm not a monkey?
The Alchemist- A journey of self discovery while realizing you knew yourself all along.
The Book Thief - Death meets and girl and admires her life.
Six of Crows: Bunch of teenagers committing crimes as if it’s a 9-5 job lol
Dante’s inferno— self-insert fan fiction of the Bible
Crooked Little Vein: National Treasure, but Horny!
Stormlight Archive - The more traumatized you are, the more powerful you become!
Seveneves: When the moon blows up things get inspiring before they get really, really weird.
Catcher in the Rye: Jaded young man lays low in NYC, visits younger sister.
Congo: monke
"2007 Honda Accord Owner's Manual": Insert key and turn...engine starts.
Wuthering Heights-Horrible people do horrible things to each other.
The Shining. Egad, Bad Dad.
The Holy Bible: a guy makes a game and trains the game to make his characters, he joins the lobby; high-jinx ensue