Language & Grammar discussion

This topic is for a guessing game type version of the six word summary variety. Initially we should limit it to well known books. And the summaries must do a reasonable job of describing the book.

I'll go first.

One Miser. Three Ghosts. Yuletide Epiphany.

Too Easy

A Christmas Carol

Let me think hmmmmmmm!

NZ,multicultural, spiritual journey times three,

The Bone People?
Don't ask me to set another one....can't think! Off to staff meeting now....

OK. I'll set one.

English Navigator. Japanese Warlord. Culture Clash.

Shogun

Ok how bout a trilogy plus one? in six words?

Vampires. Werewolves. Introspective Wallflower. Teenybopper phenomena!

Could it be Twilight?

Teenage sorcerer overnight sensation big bucks.

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Yep!

OK how bout this one?

Victorian Romance. Three daughters. Stingy stepson.

Pride and Prejudice?

Right author, wrong book. They do sometimes run together in the mind!

Dashwoods, Willoughby, Sir John, Colonel Brandon

Sense and Sensibility.

Correct and Your turn.

Bridge collapses, five lives examined. Fate?

Bridge of San Luis Rey

Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have used the word "bridge."

Ruth. You´re at the plate. Pick up the bat.

I'll try:

Professor and family fear nuclear holocaust.

Oops, sorry. I don't often play in this sandbox, didn't realize the next was up to me. I gladly pass the torch to you, John.

Sorry John. I've thought about yours off and on but haven't come up with a thing short of that Bad Brandon Fraser movie Blast from the Past (1999)... How bout a hint?

In the mean time...

Poseidon's Son grew up in Manhattan

Well, this might very well give it away, Stephen, but I'll tell you that it's the same novel that you answered correctly to one of my clues in the "Opposites Attract ... Vocab Competition" thread.

Is "Poseidon's Son grew up in Manhattan" a novel or film?

I'll have to look back at my answers... but in the mean time...

Poseidon's Son grew up in Manhattan

Is both a film and a book. Though it's unclear in the film that it's Manhattan. For some reason that scene felt more like Queens.

John, would yours be The Road ?

Stephen, would yours be The Lightning Thief ?

I didn't know there was a professor in "The Road," Jan, but if there was, I suppose it would be right, even though that's not the one I had in mind. Let me know if you want me to tell you the one I was thinking about.

Yes, I give up.

"White Noise" by Don Delillo.

Well, I didn't quite give up...is it White Noise?

Yes, Jan mine was The Lightening Thief. Officially it's your turn but in the mean time here's another one...

Bibliophilic Viejo attempts quests. Comedy ensues.

John wrote: ""White Noise" by Don Delillo."
I hadn't seen this message when I posted my last one.

Here is one to try:

Dog is dead. Boy is sad.

Was the boy's name Travis? Sounds a bit like

Nope.

Then try to make your clue more specific, Jan. As specific as you can make it so it can only apply to the one book that you have in mind might be ideal.

Boy wonders who killed the dog.

Hmmm...maybe not specific enough....how about...


Dog killed. Investigation by autistic boy.

The curious incident of the dog in the night time (or something like that)

Prejudiced girl. Proud boy. First Impressions.


(come on this is too easy)

That really is too easy.

I just like to guess. i'm terrible at summarizing. can someone please state the obvious?

Could it be Pride and Prejudice? :)

Let me go look at my bookshelves and see if I can make one up right now.

Danish Karen buys a coffee plantation.

Out of Africa.

Ummm...

Reading aloud changes lots of lives.

inkheart?

Good work. Can you think of one?

Is that a "well known book"?

Two star-crossed lovers. Suicide in Verona.

John, I believe it is a quite well-known book. Is this meant for books more along the western classics line?

ETA: Inkheart has over 30,000 ratings according to the book page here at GR.

Stray wrote: "Two star-crossed lovers. Suicide in Verona."

Romeo and Juliet.

Here's one from the classics:
Woman gives up fortune for love.

I'm the WORST when it comes to classic Women in fiction but I'm guessing Madame Bovary

My favorite line about Madam Bovary comes from a once wealthy fictional lady of the stage and screen...

Mame Dennis: Flaubert spent 17 years on Madame Bovary!
Vera Charles: However did she stand it?

Assuming that I'm right I'll pose this one...


Football crazy Texans. Movie AND series.


If I'm wrong about Madam B howzabout another six word hint?

Friday Night Lights?