Book-a-Minute Classics

[Sitaram]

This is quite amusing

http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

[amuse]

oh, that's too funny, you all should check out Beowulf!!! roflmao

and the W&P one is too much! :lol:

[Shea]

LOL! I loved Moby Dick! :lol:

[baddad]

LOL, Good stuff!!
My personal faves: Heart of Darkness, Dante's Inferno (Divine Comedy), Rime of The Ancient Mariner, The Yellow Wallpaper (This tale always gave me a little bit of a creepy feeling, although I vote the original one of the best short stories I've ever read)

These are some of my favorite tales written by some of my favorite authors.....But I've never seen them with quite this perspective.......


Gracias Sitaram.

[whereismymind]

I loved the one for Tale of Two Cities, and the Beowulf was great too :)

[mono]

I like the summaries for Faust, A Tale of Two Cities, Dante's Inferno, and the The Collected Works of E.E. Cummings - hilarious!
Thanks, Sitaram.

[baddad]

...Hamlet is great, Othello too!!

[subterranean]

From some of My Favs :


From Dante's Inferno:


Some woman puts Dante through Hell.

From Hardy's Jude the Obscure :


Jude
Sue, we love each other.
Sue
Yes, Jude, but we mustn't admit it until it's too late.
(Jude and Sue get married to the WRONG people. Then they FIND each other and have an AFFAIR.)

Society
Reprobates! Shoo! Shoo!
(Jude and Sue are TORN APART by the gruesome events and DEATH brought about by the PRESSURES of society's EVIL MORAL CONVENTIONS, because in a work of LITERATURE society is always BAD, and it is IMPOSSIBLE for all the characters to make it through ALIVE.)

THE END


From Heller's Catch 22:


Colonel Cathcart
I want a promotion, so I screw over all my men.
Yossarian
I want to get out of here, so I walk around naked and pretend to be sick.
Colonel Cathcart
Fine. Praise us, and we'll let you go home.
Yossarian
No. I'll desert instead, because I've learned that war is crazy, and it's bad too, because it makes people do really weird things and die. Also, high ranking military officers are evil incarnate.
Easily Deluded Reader
Look at all the subtext. This must be one of the greatest anti-war pieces of our time.

The End

[Rechka]

D'oh! Spoiled the ending for Don Quixote. I still have like 100 pages to go. So he falls down - end of story? :rage:

[ihaveaheadache]

^ Why did you read it in the first place then? I, for one, avoid the books I haven't read.

I like the summaries for Jane Austen, mainly cause I've read most of her books.

[simon]

I didn't think they were funny, they didn't seem clever at all and sumarrized some of the stories wrong.

[baddad]

....ahh, the fickleness of humour ........

[Jack_Aubrey]

Unless that's a joke, it's really sad. It's basically saying: Don't bother reading because books are so stupid and useless. Why don't you go play Halo 9 and turn in some crap *** report on some of the greatest works of art ever penned. Trust us!

[amuse]

well, yeah. the whole site's a joke. that 's the point. to laugh. i mean, this (http://rinkworks.com/dialect/) (also from "rinkworks") is supposed to be funny too.

and this: http://rinkworks.com/words/ clearly states "Fun With Words." some of the stuff is meant to be educational, of course...

[UncreativeName]

Oedipus is my personal favourite of those.
Woe are us.

[samercury]

hahaha!!
Most of the... summaries(?) were really funny like Gulliver's Travels. But then you find one about a book you really like and you laugh but then you're like, wait this isn't THAT funny. Anyways if my first glance at a book was through there, i would probably not want to really read the book. =(

[Lady19thC]

I especially love Jane Austen's works, Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and A Tale of Two Cities. Well done!

[Rachy]

Animal Farm (stupid version) made me laugh!

[Q. Bee]

I think they are funny. Lighten up!

[KyleBennett]

Aye they're funny but at the same time it's good to know the general plot of the story- reading is about the journey and not the end. I read too many books wanting to get to the end, for example Dracula, I read it trying to get to the end and it just wouldn't come. If you know the general plot and the end, then you can enjoy the book more for what it really is and how it's written..

Just a thought.

:-)

[Dori]

Aye they're funny but at the same time it's good to know the general plot of the story- reading is about the journey and not the end. I read too many books wanting to get to the end, for example Dracula, I read it trying to get to the end and it just wouldn't come. If you know the general plot and the end, then you can enjoy the book more for what it really is and how it's written..

Just a thought.

:-)

I agree entirely. :)

[LadyW]

The Collected Work of Jane Austen
Female Lead
I secretly love Male Lead. He must never know.
Male Lead
I secretly love Female Lead. She must never know.
(They find out.)
THE END


:lol: Hahaha, that site is great.

[superunknown]

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Hehehehe. Love it.

[superunknown]

War and Peace:
Leo Tolstoy
History controls everything we do, so there is no point in observing individual actions. Let's examine the individual actions of over 500 characters at great length.

Gatsby
Daisy, I made all this money for you, because I love you.
Daisy
I cannot reciprocate, because I represent the American Dream.
Gatsby
Now I must die, because I also represent the American Dream.
(Gatsby DIES.)

Nick
I hate New Yorkers.


THE END

Catcher in the Rye:
Holden Caulfield
Angst angst angst swear curse swear crazy crazy angst swear curse, society sucks, and I'm a stupid jerk.

[superunknown]

I like the Hemingway ones too:

The Snows of Kilimanjaro:
If you're a writer, make sure you write things, because otherwise you might die, and then you won't get to write anything.

The Sun Also Rises:
It was in Europe after the war. We were depressed. We drank a lot. We were still depressed.

A Farewell to Arms:

Frederic Henry
I'm separated from my true love in World War I Italy.
Catherine Barkley
Here I am. Let's hide in Switzerland, whoops, (dies).
Frederic Henry
War has made me cynical.

The Old Man and the Sea:
An old man catches a fish that's too big for his boat. The fish gets eaten by sharks. Then he goes home and DIES.

Pretty accurate

[LadyWentworth]

:lol:
Those were enjoyable. For me, the best were:

The Collected Works of Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Ivanov
The Red Badge of Courage
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities (probably my top choice :D )
The Scarlet Letter (probably my second choice :) )
Paradise Lost
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Romeo and Juliet
Frankenstein
Huckleberry Finn
The Collected Works of Virginia Woolf
:D