Better Better Than It Sounds

[jetfx]

Instead of exactly doing that meme that is going around, I decided to fix some of the decidedly unsnappy summaries of selected literature for Better Than It Sounds. Also, guess what they are.

Comments

[waiwode]

1. Brave New World
3. Dracula
5. Grapes of Wrath.
6. I, Claudius
7. The Metamorphosis.
8. The Name of the Rose
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray
10. The Prince of Nothing.
11. Lawrence of Arabia
13. Waiting for Godot.

Doug.

[jetfx]

Excellent! But only half marks for 11, as the book Lawrence wrote is The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

[waiwode]

I've got to kick myself for not getting Dune.

As for Lawrence? *shrug* I can admit it, I've seen the movie but not read the book.

Doug.

[jetfx]

It's a classic of literature, and goes into much much more depth than the film.

[jetfx]

Correct. Very Good!

[baron_waste]

I had thought of Logan's Run for #1, only to realize

• you said 'literature,' not 'film,' and
• I was wrong anyway.

Still, if you plug Peter Ustinov's 'Old Man' into the Noble Savage role, it does fit - accidentally, to be sure.

[jetfx]

It's not a bad guess, considering Logan's Run was also a book, and "future perfect, me unhappy" has to be the plot of thousands of novels, except Brave New World codified all the tropes around that plot.