Talk:Book Descriptions
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Has anyone ever thought of trying to match some names to these descriptions for shits and giggles? I'm personally curious as to the title of the book that inspired "Whoah. The author *really* had problems with his mother. You can't finish this.". --Rentar d'Koicei 11:50, 29 March 2007 (CDT)
- I had the same inkling once I had started reading. I found some obvious ones and some that took me a few moments to figure out:
- The book is a comical story about a bombardier during WWII. - Catch 22, Joeseph Heller
- The book is a horrible novel about vampires in the modern world. It is an assault on the English language and the author deserves to be burned. - Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice
- The book is about two minor characters in a famous play who sit around and have meaningless conversations in between their dialogue in the play. - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
- The book is the last in a long-running series of fantasy novels written by a popular horror author. While well-written, the ending is rather cheap and obvious, unworthy of the rest of the series. - Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King (?)
- The book is a story set in the 1930's, and describes the lives of two vastly different men who become friends. The ending is depressing. -The Great Gatsby
- The book is a well-written graphic novel that addresses fascism by authority figures using super-powered characters as a metaphor. - Probably the Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, although it could easily describe many graphic novels and comic series after DKR and Watchmen.
- This is a autobiography about a creator of a popular online game. - It's about the guy who invented those "____ the ___ ; win an iBox" game/ads.
- The book is a story about a poor slob who mysteriously turns into a cockroach and is hated by his family. - The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The book is about the modern Russian psyche, thinly veiled beneath the relations of three brothers. -The Brothers Karamazov
- The book is a load of clap-trap pseudo-science masquerading as a monumental work about religious history and conspiracies. & The book is a well-written science fiction epic that does NOT involve lasers. & The book is a scathing satire of fascist politics masquerading as a bizarre science-fiction novel. - these three descriptions point to the greatest science fiction trilogy ever written. --Malaclypse the Elder 03:33, 11 September 2007 (CDT)
If anyone could supply the titles to these descriptions, I'd appreciate it:
The book is a surreal adventure about a business consultant who possesses a near-supernatural ability to think with two sides of his brain at once. He is dying of a brain tumor.
The book is about a man who is thrown back in time, and who must avoid changing history too drastically if he wishes to return to his family. However he finds himself torn between doing the right thing and acting to preserve history.
The book is a comical futurist fantasy about a tradition-loving suburban community at war with its modernizing neighbors. It kindles in you a profound love of heroism.
The book interweaves the work of a famous mathematician, a famous artist and a famous musician. It is too long. --Malaclypse the Elder 23:21, 12 September 2007 (CDT)
- Some of those descriptions are tickling my brain, but I can't put my finger on the proper title. The last one sounds like Godel, Escher, Bach (which I haven't read). --Lint 03:57, 13 September 2007 (CDT)
- Maybe the second one is Back to the Future. First one COULD be "A Darker Half". --Peterbluer 15:38, 13 September 2007 (CDT)
