Honest young sailor betrayed and abandoned. Finds treasure, becomes rich and powerful. Plots ingenious ways to avenge his misfortune, succeeds. Finds love, contentment and happiness.
― Adam V, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago) link
Nothing happens. Twice.
― Mark Butterfield, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:40 (twenty years ago) link
About a guy whose's really a girl and has killed three family members before age of eight. Some comic interludes.
― Sally M, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago) link
Slothrop's erections presages rocket arrivals, Germans love S&M, assorted other subplots.
― Succinct Heel, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
The world, power, wealth, land, women are maayaa. A war for them is idiocy. Only a fool doesn't realise this. The wise do. I do.
― Ravisankar Ramadas, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
Da Vinci Code, by Dan BrownandAngels and Demons, by Dan Brownandprobably his other books, if he only uses this same template.
Academic consults on bizarre crime. Meets cutie. Uncovers huge conspiracy. Minor good guy is actually bad guy, and insane. No conspiracy after all. Ending fizzles.
― Ben Dover, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
Local boy actually chosen one. Must harness powers (while going schizophrenic) before battle with ultimate evil. All women are grouchy. Only 10 books to go.
― Ben Dover, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
Man walks five hundred miles for a roll in the hay.
― Pablo Max, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
Crazy man brings weird message to publishers. Publishers invent a conspiracy to explain it, but everything is already a conspiracy. Blame everything on Knight's Templar.
― rev. cosmo, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Yontrop, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
2004
― CraigS, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
Orphan finds that life is magical, but not all fun and games. In fact, it’s a downright pain at times. And sometimes quite terrifying.
― emerritous, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago) link
Leopold Bloom wanders around Dublin, reminisces, frets about Molly's adultery, eats, tries to make a buck, masturbates. Crosses paths with Stephen Dedalus. Molly masturbates. Yes!
― Glenn Davis, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Hutari, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
Young man damaged by war, hangs out with coal miners, farmers, prostitutes, yogis. Enlightenment ensues. Ex-girlfriend still pissed.
― bob, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link
Self-conscious med student falls for waitress. Everyone knows she's going to use him, which she does. Repeatedly. He ends up happy, despite never going to Spain.
I'm Jean-Baptiste. Modern man: fornicates and reads the paper. I did too, now I'm conceited. Did I mention I let a woman drown? My bad.
― cunctipotent cunctator, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago) link
Think rebellious thoughts, drink, hide from TV, drink, snog [more dumb than revolutionary] redhead, drink, hate BB, drink, get rats on face, love BB, drink.
― Virginia McCarthy, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
I am the boss. Do exactly as I say. Don’t think. Be good until I tell you to kill, then act like it didn’t happen.
― aha, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
I just don't get the doppelganger thing at all ...
― captain gay, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:13 (twenty years ago) link
:::?human experiment subject / concentration camp escapee singlehandedly challenges british dystopia; conscientiously objecting intuitive cop takes LSD to track him down; vi veri veniversum vivus vici.
― vi2pr8r, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:19 (twenty years ago) link
Dad SUUUUUCKS! Grandpa sucks. These weird eater people suck. Being a resident sucks. My kid sucks. Thinks I suck. Acid sucks. This ending sucks.
― captain gay, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:41 (twenty years ago) link
Witches covenent decides to kill all English children with cursed sweets that turn them into mice and kill them in mousetraps. Cursed mouse-boy recalls tale.
mouse-boy is one, hyphenated word. shut up. shut-up.
― Bog, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:51 (twenty years ago) link
"Life is many days. This will end"
― B. Michael Payne (This Isnt That), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago) link
A Native Angeleno drives LA's freeways, experiences the City, recalls his past, finds true love (and himself), and reveals the metropolis's true nature.
― D. Winchell, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
Thomas More blueskies a creepy, sixteenth-century Singapore, radically re-inventing society. (Later executed for conservative views.)
― Nigel Burke, Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
Buggery by numbers
― Nigel Burke (Nigel Burke), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago) link
Winston Smith does his job. Listens to Will Young in the pub.Then appears on pilot for 'I'm a celebrity' doesn't get out.Gets very depresssed, can't trust anyone again. Julia was a bitch.
― manc_frank, Thursday, 4 March 2004 08:12 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/webwatch/
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 March 2004 12:26 (twenty years ago) link
Scott, scroll down for the top referrals ever bit (Metafilter, basically).
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
Woah, too many characters! Best make poem 1500 pages long. Stab, charge, slaughter! Rivers of blood ensue.
(or: Dynasty for the Renaissance)
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 4 March 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago) link
Northerner, Southerner, draw territorial line across America, slaves, talking dogs, robot ducks, murderous intentions, hissy fits, and then they all die. It is sad.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 March 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
― ziggy, Thursday, 4 March 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link
Simple concept becomes popular. Loads of new people contribute. 300 posts and still going strong. Mention in the Guardian. Guardian Readers contribute. Thread dies.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 4 March 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link
Man hunts androids, illegally on earth to lengthen their pre-programmed short, doomed lives. Kills three, falls in love with the fourth. Short-lived.
― Margo B99, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Ihavewonthevictoryovermyself, Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link
That's a one word description of Fight Club.
― PuzzleMonkey, Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link
(Paraphrasing an earlier post) The first rule of Fight Club is you don't summarise Fight Club.
― PuzzleMonkey, Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago) link
Guess what? People suck in any shape or form.
Gulliver's Travels
― PuzzleMonkey, Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
― PuzzleMonkey, Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago) link
Its hot, my mother dies, its hot, I kill someone, its really hot, I get sentenced to death. Who cares? I do. Or do I?
― The Campbell, Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Illiteratti, Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago) link
Dude is really confused about stuff. Sage reveals all, except more weird stuff happens. Dude gets really freaked out, and goes and gets a Coke.
― RodgerDodgertheLeopardSkinnedLodger, Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago) link
German WW1 soldier is really hungry and miserable. Gets shot at, but has some good sociable craps in the sunshine with his mates. Goes home.
― RodgerDodgertheLeopardSkinnedLodger, Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Illiteratti, Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
(Kafka, The Trial)
― paul trevor, Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link
Hey, the ape can talk! And he thinks that by speaking elliptically I will learn how to live righteously in the world. God, he’s smart! (D. Quinn’s Ishmael)
Life as a World War II orphan is grim, but I survive savage landscapes like a medieval fairy tale character without a ‘happily ever after’. (J. Kosinski’s The Painted Bird)
― Illiteratti, Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:15 (twenty years ago) link