Posted by MaggieH (admin)
Jun 16, 2009 4:16 pm

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• BIBLE: For Peace, by God, to man.

  Jun 16, 2009 6:49 pm
  by Cloward

• The Iliad: Blame it all on the woman.

  Jun 18, 2009 10:57 am
  by Brouhaha

• Carl Sagan's Cosmos: everyone, everything is made of starstuff.

  Jun 18, 2009 12:47 pm
  by christe

• The Aeneid: Go, Aeneas! Found Rome! Don't dawdle!

  Jun 18, 2009 12:48 pm
  by jayursus

• The Aeneid (in Latin): I, Aenea! Romam conde! Ne morareris!

  Jun 18, 2009 12:56 pm
  by jayursus

• Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea: It was "this big"! No, really!

  Jun 18, 2009 1:09 pm
  by blacksheepval

• Oliver: More food? Stop thief! Poor orphan

  Jun 18, 2009 1:21 pm
  by davosmith

• Lies, love, lust, lechery, loss: Lolita

  Jun 18, 2009 1:22 pm
  by jdienerb

• Talking animals? It must be communism.

  Jun 18, 2009 2:16 pm
  by tpete

• Robinson Crusoe: Decades alone. Thank God, it's Friday!

  Jun 18, 2009 2:51 pm
  by dcsohl

• Pride & Prejudice: They end up together. The End.

  Jun 18, 2009 3:30 pm
  by saturntv

• Romeo & Juliet: Boy meets girl. Both die tragically.

  Jun 18, 2009 3:32 pm
  by KurtTrew

• King Lear: Family conflicts kill everyone. Edgar survives.

  Jun 18, 2009 3:39 pm
  by abby.of.the.year

• Brideshead Revisited: Boys, women, relationships wrecked by faith.

  Jun 18, 2009 3:58 pm
  by Sharvo

• Brideshead 2: Boys, women, house, wrecked by faith.

  Jun 18, 2009 4:04 pm
  by Sharvo

• The Count of Monte Cristo: Edmond gets jailed, escapes, gets even.

  Jun 18, 2009 4:07 pm
  by actaos

• This Side of Paradise: "Catcher In the Rye" grown up!

  Jun 18, 2009 4:11 pm
  by Kwitt

• Proust's In Search of Lost Time: meditation on love, memory, music, art

  Jun 18, 2009 4:14 pm
  by jyocom

• God's love, man's sin, Christ's salvation

  Jun 18, 2009 4:15 pm
  by grammy

• Toil, moral bankruptcy, starvation, Mao sucks - Wild Swans

  Jun 18, 2009 4:17 pm
  by mandyhd

• Moby Dick: Good, evil, obsession, less about whale.

  Jun 18, 2009 4:21 pm
  by KCronin

• Hamlet: He worries, suspects, dithers, avenges, dies.

  Jun 18, 2009 4:35 pm
  by KatherineEllen

• War and Peace: Work it out! Talk about it.

  Jun 18, 2009 4:37 pm
  by PM27

• The Great Gatsby: Gatsby loved Daisy. So did Daisy.
  Seagoat

  Jun 18, 2009 4:55 pm
  by seagoat

• Slaughterhouse-five: no matter what happens, keep humanity

  Jun 18, 2009 4:55 pm
  by donttread22

• Dante's Inferno: Hell was frozen over all along.

  Jun 18, 2009 5:43 pm
  by ieke85

• The Iliad: Petulant sulking precedes poetic blood bath.

  Jun 18, 2009 6:20 pm
  by magisterchristianus

• Anna Karenina: two women, three men

  Jun 18, 2009 6:23 pm
  by Lady_Bercilak

• Of Human Bondage: Rather take the whips and chains.

  Jun 18, 2009 6:37 pm
  by stringsandpots

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Girl overcomes poverty and drunken father.

  Jun 18, 2009 6:50 pm
  by baltomel

• The Hobbit: furry short creature saves the world

  Jun 18, 2009 6:55 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• The Remains of the Day: Above all else, we must repress!

  Jun 18, 2009 6:57 pm
  by Dellastr

• Gone With The Wind: selfish Scarlett destroys then attempts redemption

  Jun 18, 2009 6:58 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• Just a whale of a story.

  Jun 18, 2009 7:01 pm
  by anncee

• Twilight: tortured vampire+ virtuous maiden, in love

  Jun 18, 2009 7:03 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• Silas Marner - Gold is where you find it.

  Jun 18, 2009 7:05 pm
  by anncee

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck and Jim fighting racial injustice

  Jun 18, 2009 7:08 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• 1984: Big Brother is watching came true

  Jun 18, 2009 7:11 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• Anne of Green Gables: delightful orphan builds friendship and family

  Jun 18, 2009 7:13 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• Gone With the Wind - Lifestyle gone, beware winds of change

  Jun 18, 2009 7:13 pm
  by anncee

• Lord of the Rings: Good victoriously battles Evil, changes world

  Jun 18, 2009 7:15 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth and Darcy fighting, then loving

  Jun 18, 2009 7:18 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• Sherlock Holmes: fictional character believed to be real

  Jun 18, 2009 7:19 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• The Three Musketeers: sword-wielding reprobates fighting for royalty

  Jun 18, 2009 7:21 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• There was only one catch: Catch-22

  Jun 18, 2009 7:23 pm
  by Virbonus

• The War of the Worlds: evil aliens killed by tiny bug

  Jun 18, 2009 7:24 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• Ender's Game: wargames prodigy manipulated into obliterating opposition

  Jun 18, 2009 7:26 pm
  by syhilkemeyer

• In Search of Lost Time: Oh yeah, I just remembered something.

  Jun 18, 2009 8:34 pm
  by Skippy

• Dude gets nailed. All our fault.

  Jun 18, 2009 8:42 pm
  by Brouhaha

• Mansfield Park: Fanny a prig? No way!

  Jun 18, 2009 8:43 pm
  by pemberlolly

• Sense and Sensibility: Manic and depressive find love!

  Jun 18, 2009 8:46 pm
  by pemberlolly

• Pride and Prejudice: Petulance + Perspicacity = bestseller

  Jun 18, 2009 8:53 pm
  by pemberlolly

• Northanger Abbey: Gothic obession = guy with castle

  Jun 18, 2009 8:56 pm
  by pemberlolly

• Persuasion: Never throw away a blue coat!

  Jun 18, 2009 8:58 pm
  by pemberlolly

• Emma: Clueless, overconfident and offensive in Highbury

  Jun 18, 2009 9:00 pm
  by pemberlolly

• babbitt: isn't the middle class just awful?

  Jun 18, 2009 9:05 pm
  by vircorri

• Lady Susan: Mom schemes - eats daughter.

  Jun 18, 2009 9:17 pm
  by pemberlolly

• Down and Out in London and Paris: Never order the fish on Monday.

  Jun 18, 2009 9:24 pm
  by Brouhaha

• Ulysses: Leopold Bloom walks around Dublin Yes.

  Jun 18, 2009 9:59 pm
  by jdoublep

• Dune: Eat some spice. Ride some worms.

  Jun 18, 2009 10:01 pm
  by jdoublep

• House of Leaves: Closets that appear overnight are bad.

  Jun 18, 2009 10:04 pm
  by jdoublep

• Tender Buttons: Objects Food Rooms. Dirty is yellow?

  Jun 18, 2009 10:06 pm
  by jdoublep

• Robin Hood: outlaw robs the rich, helps poor.

  Jun 18, 2009 10:20 pm
  by gaylord

• Uncle Tom's Cabin: Christian love overcomes enslavement of human beings.

  Jun 18, 2009 10:31 pm
  by gaylord

• Little Women. Joe in charge, all is well.

  Jun 18, 2009 10:49 pm
  by eyewrite

• Count of Monte Cristo; One Danglars Two Villefort Three Mondego.

  Jun 18, 2009 10:49 pm
  by Finkthinks

• Ulysses: Bloomsday and no Mike no Manhattan

  Jun 18, 2009 10:56 pm
  by Finkthinks

• A governess gives in to ungovernable passion.

  Jun 18, 2009 10:59 pm
  by Pamela123

• Rebecca: Pardon, but your crime is showing

  Jun 19, 2009 12:26 am
  by prema

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Everyone gets drunk, imaginary child dies.

  Jun 19, 2009 1:47 am
  by thejunesky87

• Brideshead Revisited: following path of love to faith

  Jun 19, 2009 8:48 am
  by emiletic

• 2001: A Space Odyssey - You shouldn't have named him HAL.

  Jun 19, 2009 8:53 am
  by laurie1b

• The Bible: Destroying the world, for two millennia.

  Jun 19, 2009 9:20 am
  by gravdigr_2000

• Don't know if it's a book, but: Signs (the Mel Gibson movie): Aliens arrive. Squirt them with water.

  Jun 19, 2009 9:26 am
  by gravdigr_2000

• Odyssey by Homer: It is hard to go home.

  Jun 19, 2009 9:30 am
  by gravdigr_2000

• The Scarlet Letter - love is blind, the neighbors ain't

  Jun 19, 2009 9:54 am
  by trixiemc38

• Grapes of Wrath: dirt, dust everywhere. Head West - failure.

  Jun 19, 2009 10:20 am
  by PinkKatelynn

• IN COLD BLOOD: NY writer takes down Kansas murderers

  Jun 19, 2009 10:31 am
  by Lectrice

• The Host: Humans fall in love with alien

  Jun 19, 2009 11:23 am
  by barbryt

• Ahab hassles God for his sins.

  Jun 19, 2009 12:11 pm
  by Theodore

• The Lord of the Rings: Hobbits destroy ring, the king returns

  Jun 19, 2009 2:24 pm
  by maestrie

• White Noise: Toxic Event creates a death obsession.

  Jun 19, 2009 3:20 pm
  by spifffyyy

• To Kill A Mockingbird: Learn about prejudice and meet Boo.

  Jun 19, 2009 4:40 pm
  by AmoLibros

• Pride and Prejudice: Proud guy falls for impertinent lass

  Jun 19, 2009 4:54 pm
  by gingersplace

• Wuthering Heights: They love, he leaves, she dies

  Jun 19, 2009 4:58 pm
  by gingersplace

• The Haunting: There's something about this house...

  Jun 19, 2009 5:01 pm
  by gingersplace

• Dracula: Nice neck

  Jun 19, 2009 5:06 pm
  by gingersplace

• Sun Also Rises: Neurotic drunks watch bulls run

  Jun 19, 2009 5:12 pm
  by gingersplace

• Don Quixote: Deluded lover with bipolar ego issues

  Jun 19, 2009 5:20 pm
  by dreamdust

• Rebecca: He adored first wife. Didn't he?

  Jun 19, 2009 5:20 pm
  by gingersplace

• Macbeth: Ambitious couple find crime doesn't pay

  Jun 19, 2009 5:21 pm
  by gingersplace

• Rendezvous with Rama: spaceship comes, Earthlings rendezvous, spaceship ignores.

  Jun 19, 2009 11:49 pm
  by christe

• "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress": satellite or not, we want freedom!

  Jun 19, 2009 11:52 pm
  by christe

• To the Lighthouse: Fathers don't understand children, vice versa

  Jun 20, 2009 9:29 am
  by markbroadhead

• The Waves: I should've extended my social circle

  Jun 20, 2009 9:33 am
  by markbroadhead

• 2666: Many women die. Was killer found?

  Jun 20, 2009 12:27 pm
  by CuChulainn

• Moby Dick; Don't Mess with the White Whale

  Jun 20, 2009 7:46 pm
  by yodcha

• Brave New World: civilization out-savages a savage
  
  Da Vinci Code: Church hides huge secret, forgets Langdon
  
  A Tale of Two Cities: Revolution kills, love preserves, substitutes replace

  Jun 21, 2009 12:14 am
  by CAG_007

• Cyrano de Bergerac: Big Nose, Big Love, Clueless Woman

  Jun 22, 2009 10:46 am
  by teresalovesscotland

• Pride and Prejudice: About time they got over themselves.

  Jun 22, 2009 12:40 pm
  by baileymichelle (admin)

• The fountainhead: The belief in one own's self

  Jun 22, 2009 1:00 pm
  by adjel

• Count of Monte Cristo: Soap Opera where revenge triumphs all.

  Jun 22, 2009 7:07 pm
  by jede2583

• The Crying of Lot 49: O paranoia! The signs are everywhere.

  Jun 23, 2009 10:54 am
  by emilyyoung

• A Void: Wholly lacking our most common vow(?)l!

  Jun 23, 2009 11:02 am
  by emilyyoung

• The Metamorphosis: Being a large bug really sucks.

  Jun 23, 2009 11:15 am
  by emilyyoung

• Atlas Shrugged: Looters take, producers withdraw, humanity wins

  Jun 23, 2009 12:06 pm
  by Wegason

• Watership Down: Rabbits, prophecies, exodus, battles, heroism, utopia.

  Jun 23, 2009 12:58 pm
  by shortattention

• Lord of the Rings: Hobbits prove little people change history.

  Jun 23, 2009 12:59 pm
  by shortattention

• Oedipus Rex: Don’t pursue the dark family secrets!

  Jun 23, 2009 1:00 pm
  by shortattention

• Heart of Darkness: Like ‘Apocalypse Now’—or the reverse?

  Jun 23, 2009 1:08 pm
  by shortattention

• The Turn of the Screw: Governess vs. ghosts, place your bet.

  Jun 23, 2009 1:14 pm
  by shortattention

• Antigone: Another Greek tragedy where everyone dies.

  Jun 23, 2009 1:15 pm
  by shortattention

• Harry Potter: Boy fights evil. Wins. Gets girl.

  Jun 24, 2009 9:06 am
  by harlanstanton

• A Clockwork Orange: Never could listen to Beethoven again.

  Jun 24, 2009 1:58 pm
  by OKSchuler

• Madame Bovary: dumb wife cheat on dumber husband.

  Jun 24, 2009 6:04 pm
  by yodcha

• The Age of Innocence: Society determined the course of life.

  Jun 26, 2009 11:45 am
  by pstrjb

• Summer: Father marries pregnant daughter. Love sucks.

  Jun 29, 2009 10:24 am
  by hope_sparkles

• Eat, Pray, Love: Woman's world journey to find herself

  Jul 1, 2009 12:39 pm
  by snider

• portrait of artist: never ever all kinds servear pleasure

  Jul 1, 2009 1:31 pm
  by Class

• Lord of the Flies- " You kids behave while I'm gone."

  Jul 7, 2009 4:32 am
  by retroneo

• I, the Jury: The first time for Hammer time.

  Jul 8, 2009 11:19 pm
  by Golem100

• Gone With the Wind: The South loses, Scarlett window shops.

  Jul 8, 2009 11:22 pm
  by Golem100

• Jane Eyre: Stays true to herself. Wins eventually.

  Sep 17, 2009 10:34 am
  by snailgenie

• Black Beauty: Hey, Narrator, why the long face?

  Sep 17, 2009 10:37 am
  by snailgenie

• The Portrait of Dorian Gray: Dorian behaves badly, ruining his image.

  Sep 18, 2009 12:01 pm
  by lorisa

• Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth and Darcy will not last.

  Sep 29, 2009 2:42 pm
  by steventurner

• The Book of Ruth: I married into this family, forever.

  Dec 11, 2009 12:30 am
  by hellohello

• No Man Is An Island: handicaps,poverty,lonliness,companionship,hope,death.

  Dec 28, 2009 2:48 pm
  by gammoo

• King Lear: butt kissers are the bad ones.

  Dec 28, 2009 9:14 pm
  by kit50

• The Moonstone: I bequeathed, I stole, I'm innocent.

  Mar 8, 2010 5:07 pm
  by x4xtazy

• The Fountainhead: Tall, thin, angular individualists smoking cigaretts.

  Mar 26, 2010 1:49 pm
  by Sharvo