Oversimplifying novels #shorts #literature #novels #books

[cannedasparagus]

i NEED this format for book recommendations.

[Jermbot]

You made The Shinning sound wholesome. Like the sweet tale of a hotel full of ghosts providing much needed marriage counseling and life perspective.

[marieh]

"Everyone hates each other, it rains a lot." The most accurate description ever😂

[IgnisInvicta]

"Guy steals bread, gets chased for life" literally the best description of that book. 😂

[Paz_Soldan]

"Woman wears red letter, everyone judges." I fell OUT 😂

[ilovepickle]

I remember reading "Les Miserables" (a shorter from of it) when I was 9, and after I finished it my mom asked me to summarize it. My legit answer was: "Someone stole bread."

And I'd still say the same to this day lol

[XenoSmyth]

That's "Abridge Too Far"

[cneale]

"A day's worth of errand, but a decade's worth of thoughts." BEAUTIFUL

[sarapara]

A days errands but a decades of thoughts... Best oversimplification😂😂😂

[captainterrific]

Everyone hates each other. It rains a lot.

Yeah. Well, okay. You're not wrong.

[tye]

I had Great Expectations for this. It did not disappoint.

[indianaslim]

This could also be called Falling off the Cliff yeah, I see the door, I'm going...

[existential_horror]

why is the slaughterhouse-five one so accurate lol

[justaperson]

Mrs Dalloway is one of my favourite books of all time, and you summarised it perfectly.

'a day's worth of errands, but a decade's worth of thoughts'

[mgsPWlover]

You know, that Mrs. Dalloway description is somehow more accurate than any longer explanation.

[DoNotDial]

"A soldier's life playlist is stuck on shuffle"🤣🤣

[delmicortave]

"A woman chase dreams and finding nightmare" I love it😊 also super funny the Odysseus " a man trying to come home after war... it takes a a long time"

[greenaum]

Vonnegut's books are great! Half the time he just pops into the book himself and tells you what's going to happen, and why. He'll sit there and chat with his own characters, and some of them know who he is, and ask him why he made them that way.

You could tell he was a Humanist, very humane guy, very much gets to the heart of what matters in all of us. Very funny too. I'd read Slaughterhouse Five, it's a dis-used slaughterhouse they housed prisoners of war in, in the book. In Dresden, firebombed Dresden. One of the great Allied war crimes of WW2, burned the place to ash with incendiary bombs, not a thing above ground remained alive. Likely not even worms survived.

But his better book is Cat's Cradle. Funnier, crazier, more imaginative. Imagine there's a substance, a version of ice, except it freezes, solidifies, at anything below 45C (114 F). Unfortunately it's a crystal and will grow into ordinary water, converting that, too, into a warm but frozen solid.

Of course, you can always melt it back to ordinary water again, if you get it above 45C. But imagine if you dropped a bit in a river. And people are mostly made of water.

Great book, set on a crazy Caribbean island with a tin-pot government, everyone is poor but nice. They have their own underground religion with lots of lessons we might learn for our own religions, even if they're a bit impractical sometimes.

It's a comedy but it's also serious, or maybe it's serious but funny. You DEFINITELY should read "Cat's Cradle". It may or may not be my favourite book, not sure, but it's one I'd recommend anyone reads. Apart from the Ice-9 it's not scifi, it's more contemporary and about humans generally.

[muustard]

Okay but that's the best description of Les miserables I've ever heard

[WillExplode]

The books burn back is probably the scariest thing I’ve ever heard