Boy goes to school, marries hussy, she throws pig genitals at him, they divorce, he falls in love with COUSIN. Incest babies kill themselves. Sad.
― Sofi, Sunday, 29 February 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
Group of kids and a fat kid get stranded. Find a counch. Go crazy and kill a pig. Then killed the fat kid.
― Mike Lawson, Sunday, 29 February 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
(Waiting For Godot - alright, its a play not a novel.)
"Going down." "Lobby. Pagans, Philosophers, The Unlucky.""Basement. Icky People.""SubBasement. Really Icky People."SubSubBasement. Seriously Icky People."... "Bottom. All out. Elevator up over there."
(The Inferno. Dante Alighieri)
― jefu, Sunday, 29 February 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
I'm not gay, but I like to kiss women. Some say I hate my life, but in reality I'm just far too melodramatic. (Except Virginia.)
― Martin Bourqui, Sunday, 29 February 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
(High Fidelity - Nick Hornby)Film adaptation is pretty good, John Cusack is loveable.
― John Papamarko, Sunday, 29 February 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
I just realized this is an anagram of Tyrone Slothrop.
I would NEVER have noticed. that was brilliant. utterly brilliant.
― sara, Sunday, 29 February 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago) link
I can't think of anything to write, so I'll isolate myself on a beach. No, still can't write. Apart from this waffle.
― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Sunday, 29 February 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
― John G, Sunday, 29 February 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link
Teens beat, steal and rape. Teen gets caught. Brainwashing ensues. Violent teens are now cops. Unbrainwashing ensues. Violence = bad. Choosing violence = good. Milk = good.
=s are not words.
― Khet, Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
(The Blue Castle, L.M. Montgomery)
― a bree (abreebb), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
Weird dream; thought we killed someone last night. We did. Friend with funny name will talk. Must kill friend first.
― Greg, Monday, 1 March 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Buzz Dixon, Monday, 1 March 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
You are a reader who only ever gets to read the first chapter of ten books. It's infuriating but you do get laid.
― jj, Monday, 1 March 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
lee shoots up bug powder, shoots wife, goes to tangier, gets hooked on opiates/black centipede meat,friends worry but love his book. GAY SEX!
― Jonathan Brown, Monday, 1 March 2004 02:58 (twenty years ago) link
Martians kick our asses but then get a cold and die.
― Toby H., Monday, 1 March 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link
I won your stupid prize... No you didn't (50 years later) ok you did.
― Toby H., Monday, 1 March 2004 03:24 (twenty years ago) link
Isn't cutting-edge technology wonderful?! Wait, that shouldn't be happening ... FUCK!
I'm sure glad I survived - If only we'd respected nature.― est, Monday, 1 March 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago) link
― est, Monday, 1 March 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago) link
― trvolk, Monday, 1 March 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link
― dipshit, Monday, 1 March 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago) link
I'm poor. Let's rob and kill a pawnbroker who sucks. Yay, for murder! Let's go insane and confess. Yay Siberia!
― StephenV, Monday, 1 March 2004 04:58 (twenty years ago) link
Book 1 - The GunslingerRoland follows guy through desert. Massacres a town. Finds boy. Drops boy off bridge. Finally meets guy on beach
Book 2 - The Drawing of the ThreeCrabs eat his fingers. Walks up the beach and finds "portal doors": out of which come an ex-junkie dude (after a gunfight), a black schizo chick in a wheelchair who wants to kill whitey. Schizo turns normal.
Book 3 - The Waste LandsCripple chick gets raped, boy that fell off the bridge hops out of a hole in the ground. They kill a robot bear. "Stairway to Heaven" will get you crucified in this town. Suicidal robot train wants to derail.
Book 4 - Wizard and GlassWelcome to Kansas. Hi it's me RF. Flash back. Roland had sex once. He and some buds killed a bunch of thugs and a witch. Roland's chick dies. He goes home and kills his mom by accident.
Book 5 - Wolves of the CallaRobots are stealing kid's IQs. Cripple chick is pregnant. You are told to go read Salem's Lot. They kill a bunch of robots and the cripple chick runs off to a cave with a portal door.
― StephenV, Monday, 1 March 2004 05:36 (twenty years ago) link
― StephenV, Monday, 1 March 2004 05:59 (twenty years ago) link
Suave European pedophile tries to convince us he's human, while providing his very particular view of 50s America. Sharp wit, unreliable narrator, sick love story.
― adammmmmm, Monday, 1 March 2004 07:23 (twenty years ago) link
- almost every Haruki Murakami novel ever.
also:>>Musical prodigy receives all sorts of erudite training growing up, becomes leader of civilized world, plays best game ever, retires, imagines other lives, and dies. <<
I give up! What is this one?
― verbminx, Monday, 1 March 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago) link
Julius is a genius. Caesars 2 - 12 are mentally disturbed. According to the gossip round the forum, Tiberius was in to little children.
― Glossop, Monday, 1 March 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
We've removed all cause for conflict. Let's murder and cheat on each other and blog it. This book's free if you like me in return.
(Read the book: http://craphound.com/down/It's a fun novella, but it's also Doctorow's blatant internet-centered utopia.)
― Nick Douglas, Monday, 1 March 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
― John Parman, Monday, 1 March 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
I have Tourette's. I want to be a detective. Ooh, now I am. Still have Tourette's though. My name is Prince and I am funky.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
Wow, damn good cookie!
― Not That Chuck, Monday, 1 March 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
>>any of Michael Crichton's non-medical books:>>Isn't cutting-edge technology wonderful?! Wait, that shouldn't be happening ... FUCK!>>I'm sure glad I survived - If only we'd respected nature.
So true, so very, very true
Brighton Rock:
Man is dead. Whodunnit? Him! Oh, damn. So, nice weather we've been having then? Horse races, razor blades, being poor sucks, oh look a cliff.
― Jamsque, Monday, 1 March 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
American historian and French babe break secret codes, hustle through Europe, search for Holy Grail. Did you know that Jesus and Mary Magdalene got hitched?
― Matt Kuzma, Monday, 1 March 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Drew M., Monday, 1 March 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
World reknowned smart guy is killed, hero called. Langdon wakes up, runs around with smart EuroBabe, visits tourist attractions, is betrayed, then resolves ancient conspiracy.
― Drew M., Monday, 1 March 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
The Wizard of OZ
― Mike Tong, Monday, 1 March 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
Willy: My boys are great.Biff: No pop, we are dime a dozen.Willy kills himself.
― Fred Pilcher, Monday, 1 March 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
Alien comes to earth, becomes a drunk, gets blinded.
― Jason Sapp (jaso), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
We lost the Antichrist. He's a normal boy. Agents from Hell and Heaven are friends. Subtle message: society sucks.
― hao2lian, Monday, 1 March 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
There's an annoying government, but apart from that nothing important happens at all.
― icannotthinkofagoodusername, Monday, 1 March 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Jake Jeckle, Monday, 1 March 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Casey Abell, Monday, 1 March 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link
retarded guy named George and normal guy named Lenny make friends and get jobs, retarded guy kills someone normal guy kills retarded guy. good stuff.
― Laura S, Monday, 1 March 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago) link
Girl and embodied soul flee "Lady Macbeth" Mum, meet parallel boy. Help ambitious Dad defeat God. Fall in love, much symbolism, split up, many tears.
― dominic2, Monday, 1 March 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link
Brit meets weird foreign guy at airshow. Brit hires foreign guy to fix aeroplane engines. Turns out he's Jesus. Planes work great. Everybody dies celibate.
― Mean Old Man, Monday, 1 March 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link
In a car with a redneck with ADHD, smoke reefer, go to mexico, find sluts, go home.
― The Dude, Monday, 1 March 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link
Herion is good, no wait, it's bad. Wait. It's good, or maybe it's a lifestyle choice. No wait, young boys are better.
― The Dude, Monday, 1 March 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
Boy, Victorian and Edwardian society is strict. A Cottage and cradle robbing are thrown into the mix, and rich mingle with the poor a little.
― Lizzy, Monday, 1 March 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
Holocaust, nurse, ship, Palestine, Jews, Arabs suck, British suck. Hero gets girl.
The Haj, Leon Uris
Arabs suck, Muslims suck, and suck and suck and suck. Hero goes nuts.
― john grace, Monday, 1 March 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
Gambling, sex, and Johnny Depp are cool. But drugs are better.
― The Dude, Monday, 1 March 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
"Honey, wouldn't life be easier if you were more intelligent, if I actually wanted kids, if we had a modicum of courage and if Ike wasn't ruling the country?"
― Muiris, Monday, 1 March 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link
"I am clearly smarter than you. Eat my dust."
― Micheal, Monday, 1 March 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago) link