The Most Hilarious One-Line Summaries Of Classic Novels
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- On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to Erica Rhodes about the amazing legacy her father left behind with the best one-line summaries of classic novels.
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The Great Gatsby: just when you think something interesting might happen, he dies.
Its a crap novel anyways. I cant believe such inept scribble is included in the world canon of literature.
@@Wiktor_Klugowski so true. 15 years later, I'm still ticked I was forced to read it in high school
The Great Gatsby: Why are you switching cars?
@@sleepy1697 fax my English teacher in freshman year spent a whole class talking about that.
that is the interesting thing which happens
Lord of the Rings : Short people face serious opposition while trying to return jewelry.
Even more succinct. The walking book/movie.
Lord of the Rings: 3 garbage men avoid adventure while everyone else does things.
🤣
One comment to rule them all.
Actually they are trying to destroy jewelry
French novel: I will die for love.
English novel: I will die for honor.
German novel: I will die for country.
American novel: I will die for fame.
Russian novel: I will die.
Wow...
When it comes to fame I think the Americans could contradict and say:
"remember my name (fame) I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly; high."
Which someone probably is because they still ironically making it to heaven.
But not only is that more a classic movie that's harder to encapsulate into a book. I'm not American. So it's really not for me to say.
As a Russian, I confirm Russian book characters motto.
Spanish novel: Heros don't die you silly **dies**
Japanese novel: I will kill myself.
Dante's Inferno: Man has a hell of a time.
9 actually hehe
Well done!
Lord I had to read it for lit class never so glad to reach the last circle of hell! Lol!
Now do Purgatorio and Paradiso. Everybody forgets it was a trilogy.
@@evanthesquirrel
Paradiso - Everything is really bright and also Jesus.
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy: A story that can't quite decide if it's genius or insanity, and settles on both.
This is genius too
Animal farm: metaphorical tyrannical pig has his farm stolen by literal tyrannical pig
Harry potter: rejected orphan goes to boarding school and is stalked by a deranged noseless man
1984: Well it took longer than we expected
Actually, this is so true!
I love how no one mentions Brave New World. What basic suburban posers LOL
@@johnmcguire4635 Brave New World: Sex, Drugs, and Low-hanging Fruit
Oooh so true, and also sad.
What took longer than expected? I've read the book but I don't get your point.
Orwell's 1984: Sorry, we're running about 40 years behind.
Yep! 😂😂😂
To Kill a Mockingbird: Instructions unclear
💀🤣
Lord of the Rings: Hikers smuggle stolen property across border to return it.
Can't recall who reviewed Waiting for Godot as "nothing happens, twice."
those are genuinely funny, but not instantly funny. You do need really think it over, assuming you read that book, and no problem recall what was going on in the book. Some of the books I read it before, but takes me a few seconds to start laugh. And they just laugh instantly. Really? Is that I am not smart enough or they are a lot smarter?
@@seanleith5312 - your 'problem' might be you're thinking too hard. If you know the genre of the book the sentence in itself is funny enough (most of the time).
Lol
It was, I believe, the original Irish Times review of the play.
I always confuse Waiting For Godot with Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead.
Wizard of Oz: Ultimate woman's book, two women fight to the death over a pair of shoes.
GOOD ONE!!!!
Wow! Never thought of it quite like that.
LOL!
That has to be my favorite!
That’s sexist
The Oddessy: Man comes home late from work, tells wife a wild story and kills the party.
Learn to spell, 'genius'. The "ODDESSY"? How many errors can you squeeze in one word, clown?
You can sum up Russian history in one sentence: and then it got worse.
LOL Chris: I guess, that would squarely sum up Hungarian history too. And modern day history is: it is still getting worse and worse.
... and it was very cold.
It just shows how brainwashed Anglo-world is about Russia. Russophobia is your favorite past time only to alleviate the misery all Angloscum constantly are mired in.
Chinese history: Man tripped and billions died.
Brilliant.
Catcher In The Rye: Wealthy elite kid thinks everyone else is a phony.
That's less funny than accurate.
Boomer edgelord: *exists*
Les Miserables - a man steals a loaf of bread & is persecuted for the rest of his life.
Dickens in another language
The Old Man And the Sea: The old man returns from a fishing trip with a story about the one that got away.
Sharks suck.
@ BILL....I think that i saw the movie and wondered what all the fuss was about?
@@jtc1947 None of the Hemingway movie adaptations are any good. Read the books
@@tchoupitoulos I tried reading a bit of Hemingway. Couldn't get into it. Did You know that Hemingway started out with Gender identity problems? His Mother dressed him like a girl and He had long hair until the DAD finally put the foot down. I think about age 4 ??
@@jtc1947 Sound like it's his mom who had the problems
Here's one! 1984: It's just like 2021 but with less Antifa and more clapping
Lmao!! Yesss
and saccharin tablets
1984, you thought it was fiction, but it's really an operations manual.
Had to read 1984 in high school (coincidentally in 1984). Was honestly the most God for awful boring book I ever read. It was a struggle to get through it.
🤣
Dune: Ambitious young man becomes the universe's drug kingpin.
Rich kid goes to Burning Man, gets high, starts a cult.
I like 👍yours Dangy!
Nice.
Come now! A name like “Dagny Taggart” and you’re riffing on Dune?!?
@@joegeorge9869 What's your point?
Moby Dick: Man vs whale, whale wins.
Charlotte's Web: Clever web designer saves pig.
Little Women: Three weddings and a funeral.
Ulysses: People wander around Dublin, masturbate, get drunk, pee.
Macbeth: Man gets bad career advice from his wife.
Those are really good, don’t think I’ll read Ulysses … I don’t swing that way.
I lol'd SO HARD at Little Women. 😂
These are much better than the unfunny ones in the video.
LOL @ Little Women!!
Macbeth one if GOLD!
Romeo and Juliet: in-laws ruin a potentially successful marriage
Great one!!
Animal farm: metaphorical tyrannical pig has his farm taken over by actual tyrannical pig
Romeo and Juliet; "Four dead teenagers later..."
My high school Shakespeare teacher summed it up in four words when telling us why it wasn't in the curriculum: "Hormonal Teenagers: The Play"
Romeo & Juliet: The Idiocy of Young Love
The Wizard of Oz...”Girl travels to strange land, kills the first person she encounters, the goes on to kill again.”
Also, leaves disadvantaged friends behind, escaps scot-free
A girl becomes a serial killer?
Money printer go brrr...
Seriously, the story is an thinly veiled allegory for monetary policy
Two women fight to the death over a pair of shoes.
My favorite!
This guy’s list would make a fun game. Read out the line and guess the novel.
and add some of the wonderful comments here too!
Great idea for college students wanting a new twist to their drinking games.
Along the same lines is a game called Twisted Titles that was featured for quite a few years in the U.C. Berkeley alumni magazine (do an internet search for "farewell to twisted titles"). My dad was a Cal graduate and showed me the game not long before the magazine ended it. The premise was, change one letter in the title of a book, a movie, a song, etc., then write a caption. It's similar to what is in the these comments, but with the letter change. Since my dad and I are accomplished punsters, I immediately went to work creating twisted titles. In just under an hour, I had more than 100 and it didn't take long--sorry to say--to crack 500. Here are a dozen of my favorites.
The Downing Streek Years (pardon the spelling): Maggie bares all.
Ski & Telescope: Downhill astronomy.
A Brief History of Mime: Dr. Hawking changes careers.
Animal Firm: The horse incorporates.
Dragula: Vlad the Crossdresser.
The Adventures of Tom Lawyer: Mischievous boy selects a career.
The Gums of August: Dental problems lead the Kaiser to war.
Ben Her: TG scandal rocks the chariot racing circuit.
Capablanca: The Cuban prodigy plays it again.
Gunsmote: Nope, it’s the person, not the tool.
Motel California: The Eagles reduce their travel expenses.
The Horton Utilities: Dr. Seuss writes an unerase program.
@@skysurfer5cva 😂
That's what I was hoping we'd be watching.
Kyle: please do another video and read ALL of them
We need all 73!!! Please!
And others!!! You guys should take this on and do an entire line for one liner book critiques!!!
And keep the camera on that girl.
Please do
and please included these comments
Kafka, The Trial: A German’s endless and surrealistic struggle with the NYC DMV after having his car towed.
LMAO!
@redneckgoatfarmer DMV in NY "WILL" rip you off having waited in line for hours on end but they only stand behind a counter, tow that's kinda like "work" isn't it?
Atlas Shrugged: Woman tries to keep America from going to crap. America goes to crap.
I liked the Don Quixote title the best.
Every Jack Reacher novel: Very large man punches his way through small town with corrupt underworld; leaves.
You're not wrong, but somehow Lee Childs still makes it work! 😁
wish Season 2 stuck with that
Wouldn’t that be large Hobo. At least, that was how Reacher discribed himself in first season.
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged: You think it sucks now, just wait.
True.
great!!!
Oh my...that's a good one. 👍
Anne of Green Gables: A girl just wants to have fun and everyone thinks she's crazy
She just wants to have fun, but she's a ginger
I LITERALLY CAN'T- DON'T OFFEND MY GIRL LIKE THAT😭😭😭
@@myleemontag1690 AM I WRONG? LOOK ME IN THE FACE AND TELL ME I'M WRONG
Farewell to Arms: Bad sawmill accident.
Should have listened to his shop teacher.
Lol! That sounds more interesting than it actually is
Made me LOL!
Bwahaha... I see what you did there.
Actual headline before the first Gulf War:
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
Alice in Wonderland: Drugs are bad.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Drugs are REALLY bad.
Moby Dick: Get a life, Ahab!
Good PSA right there
Romeo and Juliet: Not me Not now
Monty Python's take on War and Peace: Story of a man named Peter who tried to kill Napoleon and didn't.
My entry for the all England Proust summarizing contest - a man eats a cookie and remembers his whole life.
That's from "Hello Cheeky" if I recall correctly. Which starred Tim Brooke-Taylor who was almost in Monty Python.
@@Phase52012 That name takes me back. I loved the series The Goodies.
I understand he also co-wrote the Four Yorkshiremen amongst other achievements.
A real talent.
Romeo and Juliette: Five days, six dead.
Moby Dick: Fishing excursion goes awry.
Hamlet: Man opposes his mother's remarriage and everyone dies.
The Godfather: Unlikely youngest son inherits the family business, must prove himself against hostile takeover bid.
Romeo and Juliet (Spoiler Free) - Teenagers were always just as stupid as they are now
1984 - Woke person's instruction manual.
Now if only you could get them to read it... Pretty certain the average woke person's attention span is attenuated to the Twitter post character limit.
@@RasaCartaMagna hahahha
Anything written by Sharpton or Jackson: "You owes, us, Whitey. You rayciss."
You actually mean Brave New World there sport
That is really good.
Moby Dick: Just read the last chapter, it's the only part anyone remembers anyway.
I only know the first line
@@horrificpleasantry9474 Do you know Khan's speech in Star Trek II when he sets off the Genesis device? It's Ahab's speech to the whale in the last chapter of Moby Dick.
Wait, Ishmael spending the night sleeping with Queequeg slipped your mind?
@@Rockhound6165 Yes. I remember the scene with Orson Welles climbing the rope ladder to give a sermon from the bow end of a ship stuck out from a wall from the movie but didn't remember that scene from the book. It was only on the second reading that I remembered the 2nd mate's name was Starbuck.
Moby Dick was a difficult book to read just because of the length. I honestly don’t remember any of it. I guess it must have been boring for me.
But the books I really disliked was ‘Old Man and the Sea’ and ‘A Portrait of a Young Artist.’
Old Man and the Sea was so short but felt like eternity. There were literally pages just describing an ache in the guy’s hand.
The Portrait of a Young Artist, was just so pretentious and the main character a complete jerk. It’s still the book I dislike the most. My high school English teacher literally told us that if anyone could understand this book they’re a genius because no one knows what he’s talking about. I hate that so much because it’s bs. The whole point of writing a book is to tell others something. There’s no point in writing gibberish no one else can understand and maybe just shows the author has a psychosis. Anytime in the book you could understand him the main character was the most woe is me and just cruel to everyone (even those who were being bullied right after he had been bullied) and thought he was better than everyone else too.
I didn’t know anything about the author when reading the book but apparently James Joyce was an unpleasant person similar to the fictional character in his novel. It just makes me sad that someone like that was being revered. When there’s so many really great books out there.
Les Miserables - Frenchman steals loaf of bread, never hears the end of it.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Creepy candy man lures children into house of traps, tormenting and maiming all but one, who he adopts.
Honest Trailers has gone downhill a fair bit, but I liked the ‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory’ one: “SAW- for Kids!”
The original elimination style competition reality show.
I never quite understood the attraction of this book. It's incredibly creepy!
@@JaneAustenAteMyCat How old were you when you read it?
A man of few words can be a good thing.
And a woman even better.
I shouldn't have said that, but I had to. 😁
I’m a man of few words... and fewer thoughts X^\
@@jamesflynn4741 ,
Your's is a thoughtless reply.
Titanic movie summary: Boy meets girl, ship meets iceberg.
@@freedomforever6718 i have nothing to say to that
“Brave New World”: Gives ‘baby bottles’ a whole new meaning.
Brave New World: Google ruined orgies.
The one person who mentions BNW rather than 1984 and it's not even about how we're living it. What basic suburban posers we all are here LOL
The "Iliad": Man gets girl. Man loses girl. Troy burns.
Swann’s Way - Proust: So many words, so little to say.
He would’ve actually won that Summerize Proust competition on Monty Python.
😁
@Mike Mongrel Start again.
😁
A Remembrance of Things Passed Gas
The Scarlet Letter: What it feels like to wear a Maga hat
Too true...and the Puritans are the Squad
This is perfect.
Perfection!
@@janetprice85 Yeah, Christians are so persecuted in this country. If a politician openly advocates for a national religion in direct violation of the First Amendment, those nasty libs point out that a national religion violates the First Amendment. America needs a state religion to be great, like Iran, ISIS and the Taliban do. I long for a time when Christians can be president, or maybe even forty six consecutive presidents. Oh, but that “squad”...
Bump
Kafka’s Metamorphosis: Salesman has a really bad trip.
The Jungle Book - Snarky kid vs. talking animals
Northanger Abbey - Bath has vampires too
Anne of Green Gables - Accidental redhead tries to fit in
Treasure Island - Guns, gold, and a one-legged man
Huck Finn - Runaways on a wet road trip
Hound of the Baskervilles - Beware the moor (and the hound)
The Maltese Falcon - Men and woman seek mythical bird
Emma - Matchmaking stinks
Jane Eyre - Governess and aristocrat share relationship problems
Captain's Courageous - Spoiled brat mans up on a fishing boat
Death of a Salesman - Salesman dies
Chronicles of Narnia - Kids on trek to find the Lion King
A Christmas Carol - One grouch, three ghosts, and a Christmas pudding
Macbeth - Wackadoodle Scottish warlord dies
Hamlet - Emo Danish prince (and everyone else) dies
King Lear - Mad British king (and daughter) dies
Richard III - Hunchback British king dies (horse lives)
Antony and Cleopatra - Egyptian queen and Roman general die (snake lives)
Much Ado About Nothing -Nice girl gets framed while snarky girl gets pranked
Twelfth Night - Crossdressing girl fails at matchmaking
As You Like It - Crossdressing girl fails at matchmaking and everyone runs into the woods to frolic
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Everyone runs into the woods to frolic (including an ass-headed man)
Your Emma was spot on.
These are great!!
Catch 22: Irony makes everything impossible.
The Great Gatsby: Hey look at these rich people; they have problems too.
The Wizard of Oz: America invades foreign country, kills local leadership, seeks exit strategy.
The Empire Strikes Back (a movie, I know): Deadbeat dad tries to get son to join family business.
The Wizard Of Oz: three women fighting over a pair of shoes
ESB has a novelization, so it works.
Hey, I think you've got the gift! I look forward to your movie and book review career. Most reviews are too long & boring for me.
@@ashemgold wish I could take credit for the above, but I just remember reading it somewhere.
If you want a truly legendary movie critic, check out The Critical Drinker on TH-cam. He’s brilliant and _very_ funny.🤣
@@Mark-cd2wf I listen to his #shots. Classic.
Paradise Lost: I saw Satan laughing with delight.
Dr. Zhivago: Drunks, death...I give up.
Animal Farm: A step by step guide to the Democrat Party.
The Dr. Zhivago one...🤣🤣🤣
John Milton got married and wrote _Paradise Lost._
Then his wife died and he wrote _Paradise Regained._
The Sun also Rises: Don't go running with the bulls.
The Handmaid’s Tale: a step by step guide to the Republican Party.
The fact that you’re so dumb you don’t even understand animal farm shouldn’t surprise me but it’s very disappointing. Idiot
Had a college roommate in the early 80s who had to read 3 by Flannery O'Conner. He read mostly fantasy and sci-fi like me. He would be reading quietly, then just scream in anguish and throw the book into the opposite wall. A day or so later he would pick it up and try again. Finally, he just started tearing the pages out as he read them, so "No one else will have to suffer through this book as it will end it's life when I finish it finally."
O'Connor is a great author, don't know what was up with your roommate.
We went to Flannery’s farm. I really loved the farm equipment.
Back in the 60s, a local DJ played "I Was Born Under a Wandering Star" by Lee Marvin. He said that was the worst record he'd ever heard and broke the 45 in half on the air so no one else could every play it again.
@@bite-sizedshorts9635I love that song!
@@bite-sizedshorts9635 45's were made of vinyl and unbreakable. Urban missed.
Can you really blame the russians, though? They write what they know.
Oof 😅 low blow man, low blow.
@@oldmanjinkinsskyrim737 but so true
So true.
1984: Twenty Twenty-Three
1984 has come true if you replace "the inner party" & "big brother" with "the media" & "wokeism"
Coriolanus: I’ll be back
Macbeth: watch out for the trees
Hamlet: You had one job but blew it
Romeo and Juliet:Family feud Verona style
Henry V: Fun at Agincourt
Richard III: man can’t find horse
Brave New World: Praise the Ford and pass the Soma
Gone with the Wind: Southerners give a dang
War of the Worlds: Marvin the Martian contracts whu flu
The Odyssey: never piss off Poseidon
I’m waiting for more, please.
@@natura808 The Tempest: Come Mr Caliban tally me a sonnet
Titus Andronicus: Where’s the ground beef? Oh, never mind.🤢
2001 Space Odyssey: Hal and his monolisp
Water ship Down: Kill da Wabbit! kill da Wabbit!
Julius Caesar: Don’t go the forum tonight, it’s bound to take your life
@@ursusthewhite9824 l read the 1st line of the Calypso as "Come Mr Taliban",
dyslexia brings me so much joy,
those jokes on jokes were sublime btw
@@veronica_._._._ If smile it made thou do, then the world is a little less blue.
@@natura808 The Illiad: if you fail, Troy and troy again. The Odyssey: Never piss off Poseidon.
Lord of the Flies:
Boys will be boys, or unholy demons.
Of Mice and Men:
Sometimes you just want to pet some "rabbits" 😉
A Song of Ice and Fire:
Some families don't like each other.
John Dies at the End:
John doesn't die at the end.
Forrest Gump:
Dumb guy does everything better than you.
Your summaries are my favorites, but especially Lord of the Flies! 🤣👏👏👏
ASOIAF- you need to add, and some families love each other too much
Ok, Jenny, and I'll raise the Aids baybay
"All Quite on the Western Front:" don't reach for butterflies on the last day of the war...
Maurice Sendak's "Shrinlits".
Beowulf: Monster Grendel's tastes were plainish, breakfast just a couple Danish.
Hamlet, from Ophelia's perspective, according to The Reduced Shakespeare Company: "Cut the crap, Hamlet. My biological clock is ticking and I want babies NOW!!"
Having read "Crime and Punishment," I can confirm that's a pretty accurate one-sentence summary.
Honored sir, my experience would admonish me that you are correct.
Not really, there are no peasants in C&P
I don't understand what they laugh about, is that me being too shallow?
This has been one of my favorite books forever, and this is hysterically spot on.
Brevity is the soul of a good TH-cam video...
The shining: never bring your family to work
Enders game - children raised to be war criminials.
Enders Game: “When Video Games lead to violence.”
Fight club: Stop hitting yourself!
Matilda: Little girl taps into her trauma from familial abuse and learns the force is strong with her.
Harry Potter: Boy takes up magic to defend himself from his family and a bald guy who wants to kill him.
The Fault in Our Stars: Cancer never made a teenage girl thirstier for a fellow invalid before.
Lord of the Flies: Naked and Afraid with little boys.
To Kill A Mockingbird: Tomboy learns about the racial injustices of her time.
Twilight: Weirdly pale girl from Arizona has to choose between a reclusive goth or a dog.
The Hunger Games: Rich people make the poor people kill each other, so a young woman finds a loophole by shipping herself with a baker.
1984: man gets tired of doing things that rewrite history.
Another one-liner about Crime and Punishment I heard some years ago. " Uptight student axes two"
Incisive and concise, in the full Latin sense 🗡
The Bible: God created everything and has a wonderful party planned for His Son... You're invited! (Be sure to dress appropriately.)
That's the best one I've read in the comments, and I've read quite a few. Great job! And God bless you in Jesus' name.
Don Quixote:
Wind power is stronger than fantasy power.
Cannery row, The tribulations of planning a surprise birthday party.
Hemingway: books about nothing in a second grade vocabulary.
Hey, I learned "carabinieri" from Hemingway. Most US college grads don't know its meaning. But your gist may be correct.
I tried to read some of his stuff. Just couldn't get into it.
I had the exact same reaction when I tried to pick up one of his tales.
Gulliver's Travels: Tiny people, giant people, talking horses... all better than living in England.
A Modest Proposal: The Swift Diet
The Time Machine: You think we're polarized NOW? Just wait.
Book of Job:
Why? Because.
A twist on the Faustian bargain: God sells Job's soul to the Devil.
Jurassic Park: (Crichton) Pet lizards turn on owner.
Andromeda Strain: (Crichton) COVID, as portrayed by the mainstream media.
The Sphere: (Crichton) Visualization is key to manifestation.
One Thousand and One Nights: "A virgin storyteller is granted a stay of execution by her husband until she can finish a captivating story the following night...until she can finish THAT story the following night...until she can finish THAT story the following night...etc., etc...and thereupon the word "cliffhanger" was born."
In short: woman in danger invents the cliffhanger.
A Tale of Two Cities: Almost nothing happens and then a guy gets his head chopped off--the end.
You forgot the 182 trials the main character got put on.
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A Tale of Two Cites: How to get yourself killed in 12 easy steps.
It has such great opening and ending sentences but I was very disappointed in the middle.
Here is a link to the full list: ericalynnrhodes.medium.com/deans-list-5a336b5fff38
Thank you!
Not much of a list if you have to jump through hoops to see it.
THANK YOU!
You have to create an account to read the whole story. Big pass on that.
@@AFAskygoddess account was free, but I just copied it all onto a google doc
docs.google.com/document/d/1fzMxjy25CJQkT1LSFqahPAuyA4HZRJUdD7WFwIIYHf0/edit?usp=sharing
Every romantic novel - woman marries rich man
Machiavelli the prince - show you can fight, and you may never have to.
Honest hobbit corrupted into life as a thief for the greater good
Any one know if Salty Cracker has been banned by YT ?
If so, I hope that he will be back as Schmaltzy Slacker.
He got banned for a week and they also hit him with a strike for a reeeee-stream he did months ago. Salty decided to delete all his YT videos and will just use the platform for making short announcements. He is on Odysee and Bitchute. He’s hoping to work with Odysee for his livestreams but for now is back to D-live for streams on W/F/Sun. Still streaming at 5:30pm avocado time!
I'm watching him on Odysee. They also have Next News Network.
SALTY ARMY!!! REEEEEEEEE!!🧂🧂🧂
He got banned for a week, but when that happens you can still go to his YT page, and it has a link for his show on Odysee. BTW, the views on Odysee skyrocket when he gets banned. Way to go, Salty Army! What's more troubling to me is YT totally offed Doug Tennapile In Excile. I can't even find links to him by trying to search for him on YT. Very Orwellian.
from her blog:
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells: After interstellar strategic planning, Mars tries to conquer world by invading the island of England.
I agree with Kyle..........this man would have been a HUGE favorite as a book critic!!
Animal Farm: To bad they coulden't read the U. S. Constitution!
There was aired on TV something similar - a 2-3 sentence synopsis - for every famous opera every written. It was actually pretty hilarious, because it was something of a running gag every time there was an ending where the heroine threw herself to her death.
Would love to hear that list!
Bible - Holy Spirit et al.: Never trust a human, except it is God in the flesh.
Bible: Sociopathic Immortal Being tormenting humans and being a Karen when they disobey him.
@@10AntsTapDancing Yep. That's the devil, for sure. You got it right :)
Also ‘Bible’: You’re probably going to Hell.
@@handynothandsome261 "Except ye repent."
The life of self-will is only pleasurable for a time - inevitably, serving our own desires will bring us some degree or another of suffering. The best outcomes on this earth are emptiness or a permanent state of discontent; the worst are bitter misery or crushing loneliness.
You might think earthly things will satisfy, but look back, and you should see the satisfaction is only ever but a moment, then need more - of whatever it is you have desired.
@@handynothandsome261 Nice name, by the way! That's a throwback.
I bet he killed with haikus.
Moby Dick - Man hates fish, fish kills him.
I guess I can take that book off my list of books to read. Thank you!
Except that whales are not fish.
@@shawngilliland243More like aquatic dogbears.
This was gorgeous.
Ok, I'm going to hit you with the best movie review that has ever been written.
The movie was Showgirls.
The review:
"Poles haven't been treated this badly since World War Two."
Whoever said that is a genius!!!🤣
I read a great review of the movie Dumb and Dumber - 'first time the entire movie is described in the title"
As a native Russian speaker- his take on Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, my least fave of his is Anna Karenina, are quite funny and true
Honored sir! I wish I could read crime and punishment in Russian. I wonder how much I really missed in translation. Still a wonderfully worded book in English, as my experience admonishes me.
as a native Russian speaker I can say every Russian classic novel is about feeling emotional pain and trying to do anything and everything to make it stop.
No
Frankenstein: When Man's hubris exceeds Man's limits.
This video made me want to read more of those books so I could understand the jokes 😂
The entire Xanth series: An author tries to transcribe a fabulous fever dream he once had aided only by a dartboard, pages from a thesaurus, and ample doses of psychedelics. (In theory)
I wonder in which book Anthony wrote about his thinking about teenage girls' bodies?
Les Miserables: no one can be happy for long, including the reader whilst reading this book
A million times funnier than Every late night talk show
Calm down, don't go all suburban snob on us. Just . . . appreciate what is.
Got a little nerve pain there?
Phantom of the Opera: Girl with an IQ roughly above room temp water mistakes a musically inclined, simping lich for a divinely sent tutor.
god that stage show was overhyped and tedious
@@captain-poppleton Do you mean the Andrew Lloyd Webber one I assume? Too much spectacle for me. Also half face deformity is lame.
The Count of Monte Cristo: "A wrongfully imprisoned man escapes, amasses wealth, and tries to exact revenge on those responsible for his earlier plight...then he returns home to concoct a brand new sandwich."
I so look forward to my approaching retirement so I will have time to kick back a read all the classic Cliff Notes.
'Great Expectations' is my most challenging read yet. Story is so basic for such a long novel, but at least I learned about life in England and London around that time. Next up: 'Gulag Archipelago Book 1'.
I did wonder if Dickens was paid by the word with characters such as "Mrs Whopsle's Great Aunt's Granddaughter" who could just as easily been "His niece" - it just draaaaaags and has whole chapters that are irrelevant. (Had to read it for GCSE) - Also Pip is a d**khead.
@@RichardSouth yes, most of his writing was released as serials in newspapers
"That's twenty year of our lives we'll never get back." For Pip and everyone who reads it!
I actually found Gulag interesting and compelling but I was curious about Russia at the time.
The best comment I ever heard about Great Expectations? "What that book needs is more coincidences."