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Direckshun 05-16-2013 09:32 PM

Late night bullshit: summarize a novel of your choice in one sentence.
 
The Great Gatsby: Everybody sucks because we are simultaneously driven by craven, primordial desires while trying to mask that that's all we're doing, which is all easier to do when you're rich.

Hammock Parties 05-16-2013 09:33 PM

The Dig: Astronauts investigating a rogue asteroid in Earth orbit get warped to a mysterious planet, which they investigate, leading to strange discoveries of ancient technology, lost alien races and dire consequences.

Hammock Parties 05-16-2013 09:34 PM

Jaws: A huge shark ****s shit up and eventually dies after eating a lot of people.

Discuss Thrower 05-16-2013 09:35 PM

The Sun Also Rises:

People will always desire what they cannot have.

Stanley Nickels 05-16-2013 09:36 PM

A Song of Ice and Fire (aka, HBO's A Game of Thrones): Tits with a chance of dragons.

Buehler445 05-16-2013 09:36 PM

The Andromeda strain. We're all ****ed until the game changes.

Stanley Nickels 05-16-2013 09:36 PM

Any David Sedaris memoir: Heterosexual Americans are so stupid and I am so goddamn clever.

Tombstone RJ 05-16-2013 09:38 PM

Old Man and the Sea: Damn Fish!

Stanley Nickels 05-16-2013 09:39 PM

The Fountianhead:
http://ih2.redbubble.net/work.57688....e-me-me-v3.jpg

Tombstone RJ 05-16-2013 09:40 PM

The Heart of Darkness: People are bad mmmmkay?

Hammock Parties 05-16-2013 09:41 PM

50 Shades of Grey: Women get ****ed

Fat Elvis 05-16-2013 09:41 PM

Catch 22: ****; we're ****ed.

Direckshun 05-16-2013 09:42 PM

Life of Pi: Holy shit, a tiger.

Ming the Merciless 05-16-2013 09:43 PM

WOOL: After a nuclear & biological disaster, mankind finds itself struggling to survive underground and come to terms with what they've done.

http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Omnibus-E...dp_kinw_strp_1

Kidd Lex 05-16-2013 09:43 PM

Jobs: Steve was a modern day Da Vinci & ****ing insane.

Tombstone RJ 05-16-2013 09:44 PM

Lord of the Flies: Boys hump a wild sow, then eat it, then play war games and this is a microcosm of the world.

Direckshun 05-16-2013 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ (Post 9688057)
Lord of the Flies: Boys hump a wild sow, then eat it, then play war games and this is a microcosm of the world.

Lord of the Flies: It does not matter how old men are, when you isolate them from women for any amount of time, they **** pigs and kill each other.

keg in kc 05-16-2013 09:49 PM

My novel: I'll write this someday, perhaps.

Tombstone RJ 05-16-2013 09:50 PM

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Drugs are bad mmmkay?

big nasty kcnut 05-16-2013 09:53 PM

the firm lawyer finds out other lawyers are more evil then him.

Tombstone RJ 05-16-2013 09:56 PM

The Metamorphosis: You become what you are.

Tombstone RJ 05-16-2013 10:05 PM

A Rumor of War: Vietnam sucked.

Tombstone RJ 05-16-2013 10:05 PM

The History of Vietnam: The whole damn thing could have been avoided.

AdumbGuy 05-17-2013 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Direckshun (Post 9688020)
The Great Gatsby: Everybody sucks because we are simultaneously driven by craven, primordial desires while trying to mask that that's all we're doing, which is all easier to do when you're rich.

this is what you got out of The Great Gatsby? Good sir, you might be better off re-reading it rather than creating Pro-Pioli threads. Otherwise, here is a summary that is equally as appropo and equally lacking nuance: People like ****ing.

Sorter 05-17-2013 01:20 AM

The Brothers Karamazov: Enlightenment, duality of mankind, and all reasons to loathe the human race as a whole rolled into 1 story.

AdumbGuy 05-17-2013 01:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sorter (Post 9688347)
The Brothers Karamazov: Enlightenment, duality of mankind, and all reasons to loathe the human race as a whole rolled into 1 story.

Reading this right now. So basically, vonnegut, but longer and more russian?

Sorter 05-17-2013 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AdumbGuy (Post 9688352)
Reading this right now. So basically, vonnegut, but longer and more russian?

Much deeper and more philosophy based.

noa 05-17-2013 05:58 AM

Portnoy's Complaint: extreme sexual desire acted out awkwardly, or in other words, my youth.
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Sully 05-17-2013 06:18 AM

Things Fall Apart;
Things fall apart.

BlackHelicopters 05-17-2013 06:21 AM

The Bonfire of the Vanities: Time and money cause life altering problems.

patteeu 05-17-2013 06:35 AM

Ender's Game: They recruited me to play a video game and I kicked it's ass so hard that it eventually became my reality.

Kaepernick 05-17-2013 06:40 AM

War and Peace: There is a war and everybody dies, so it's peaceful.

Direckshun 05-17-2013 06:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sully (Post 9688430)
Things Fall Apart;
Things fall apart.

LMAO

Kaepernick 05-17-2013 06:43 AM

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: With a towel you can do anything in the Universe - except save Earth.

Kaepernick 05-17-2013 06:49 AM

Jane Eyre - nothing happens.

Little Women - nothing happens.

Any novel by bored self-absorbed noble British women - nothing happens.

J Diddy 05-17-2013 06:56 AM

The Jungle: Capitalism bad, Communism good.

Kaepernick 05-17-2013 06:59 AM

Jane Eyre - nothing happens.

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Soviet political prisoners suffer oppression and die.

The House of the Dead - Soviet political prisoners suffer oppression and die.

Any novel by anyone who ever spoke out against the Soviet power structure - political prisoners suffer oppression, starvation, torture and death.

DaFace 05-17-2013 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stanley Nickels (Post 9688035)
A Song of Ice and Fire (aka, HBO's A Game of Thrones): Tits with a chance of dragons.

I'll go with "Everybody dies."

Discuss Thrower 05-17-2013 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sully (Post 9688430)
Things Fall Apart;
Things fall apart.

Things Fall Apart:

Alpha male African cannot handle the change in values which arrive with European colonialism.

Rain Man 05-17-2013 07:44 AM

On the road: guy does drugs and drives around spouting beautiful prose.

Graystoke 05-17-2013 08:08 AM

Dune:
I got sand in my pants.

Gonzo 05-17-2013 08:17 AM

IT: Kids walk around in the sewers, get the **** scared out of them, then gang-bang a ten year old girl.

Gonzo 05-17-2013 08:20 AM

The Grapes of Wrath: It's dusty and there's no money, lets move to Cali and suck tittys.

Stewie 05-17-2013 08:31 AM

Catcher in the Rye: Adults are corrupt (****) and young innocent people become adults (****) and there's nothing anyone can do about it (****).

Frazod 05-17-2013 08:33 AM

Direckshun Down: After posting his 1,000,000th pointless thread, an internet douche is cast from a flaming AIDS tree into a vat of boiling antifreeze.

An unheralded classic.

Earthling 05-17-2013 09:08 AM

Solyent Green. Eat at Joes and eat AT Joe.


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