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#1 Yung

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:13 AM

Have you ever sat back after reading a book and summarized the book (book series) in a single sentence?

It was a story about a girl who fell in love with a vampire, then got knocked up.


It was a story about a man who lost his leg to whale, then drove his crew to their deaths.


It was a story about creation, someone who died that didn't do anything wrong, and the last book hasn't happened yet.


Got any other summaries?

Napiform went and ruined this thread for me by linking me to this:
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So this wasn't as original as I initially thought, but... it could still be fun and we have plenty of examples of others.

#2 Sweeney

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:14 AM

Summarise A Song of Ice and Fire.

#3 trizzle

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:16 AM

Summarise A Song of Ice and Fire.


Everybody dies.

Spoiler


#4 Maloo

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:23 AM

Summarise A Song of Ice and Fire.

Inb4 spoilers
My best shot at summarising it would be "Some families fight for a throne and all of the characters you like die."
But then again, there's the night's watch, the Starks and some other guys that don't want the Iron Throne..shit, that's hard.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:25 AM

A Russian guy kills someone, feels super guilty/sick and confesses, resulting in self-redemption.

A man and a retard travel together until the retard kills someone, so the man kills the retard.

A wizard kills another wizard. The end.

#6 ElBastardoVerde

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:32 AM

Man creates dinosaur theme park, thinks nothing bad will happen, bad stuff happens, no one has a good time.

#7 Nymh

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:33 AM

My favorite novel:

A retard takes experimental medicine and it makes him a genius, then it wears off and he becomes a retard again.

#8 ElBastardoVerde

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:43 AM

A retard takes experimental medicine and it makes him a genius, then it wears off and he becomes a retard again.


Algernon?

#9 Nymh

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:44 AM

Algernon?


Yep.

#10 Keil

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:51 AM

A girl is sent to camp for losing a game of hide and seek.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:54 AM

People stuck Underground for a very long time, and escape thanks to these kids.

Weird people like to watch kids die.

Edited by Dorkie, 20 July 2012 - 10:55 AM.


#12 HappyAccident

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 11:10 AM

A man is framed and sent to prison, then finds a treasure and gets payback.

Bam!

#13 Leaf

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 11:25 AM

A turtle and a hare race to see who is faster. The turtle ends up winning because of the hares pride. It was later discovered that the hare was on performance enhancing chemicals.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 11:29 AM

A turtle and a hare race to see who is faster. The turtle ends up winning because of the hares pride. It was later discovered that the hare was on performance enhancing chemicals.


Confused by the concept of a single sentence?

#15 Leaf

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 11:46 AM

Confused by the concept of a single sentence?


oh i didn't read that part. I thought we were summering books as short as possible. OK let me fix it.


Hare races humble turtle and losses because he is a narcissistic pig.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 11:48 AM

Human lab-rat's life is reflected by a real lab-rat.

Oh, do it with movies, too :p

Lisa is tearing him apart.

#17 trizzle

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 11:52 AM

Teenage boy pisses everyone off by being a walking hypocrite for 288 pages, also he nearly has sex with a prostitute but pussies out.

#18 Applepi

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 12:05 PM

This thread makes me feel quasi-illiterate since I'm having a hard time figuring some of these book out. Sad part is, I actually like to read, apparently I've been reading crap :/

#19 essie

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 12:35 PM

What the fuck book is that?


Serious?
I thought they made everyone read Catcher in the Rye in high school.

#20 Nymh

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 12:59 PM

Human lab-rat's life is reflected by a real lab-rat.


I already did that book!

#21 trizzle

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 01:00 PM

Apparently not.


You're lucky! I know it's meant to be a modern classic but I really hated it.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 01:42 PM

My favorite novel:

A retard takes experimental medicine and it makes him a genius, then it wears off and he becomes a retard again.


I though it was Flowers for Algernon...

#23 Nymh

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 02:36 PM

I though it was Flowers for Algernon...


It is... Didn't I already answer that question?

Fuck it here's a new one

Boy starts life as a thief but eventually becomes one of the greatest wizards alive, and becomes fuck buddies with the goddess of magic.

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 12:43 AM

A second son gets lost on a tropical island in a shipwreck for 22 years, herds sheep, gets rescued.

Aliens with three sexes rescue the survivors of a nuclear holocaust to harvest and "trade" their genetic material, in the process restoring humans to dominance on earth.

We're waiting for Godot.

The antichrist is born in England but is switched at birth with a perfectly normal boy, leading to much confusion by the opposite numbered agents of heaven and hell.

The current incarnation of death dies when he removes his invulnerability robes of office like a stupid twat, leaving the killer to become the new death.



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Posted 25 July 2012 - 02:45 AM

some lawyer tries to defend a man of the opposite race, but the guy gets killed anyway.



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