Dandelion Break Boring Book Summary - A Challenge

[Barbara]

Meanwhile over on Instagram ...

Someone called Very British Problems (they're superb, so follow them) is doing a 'sum up a book in one sentence to make it boring' thing. I thought this would be fun to do here. So let me start.

Dude hates whale. (Moby Dick)

Woman looks after injured author (Misery)

Hotel caretaker becomes obsessed with Redrum (The Shining)

Jonny is finally here (also The Shining)

Over to you....

 

[Claire G]

Meddling young woman plays matchmaker (Emma)
Old man has regrets (A Christmas Carol)
Meek governess sticks to her guns (Jane Eyre)
Clown scares children in the 1950s (It)

Actually, I'm not sure these sound that boring!

 

[Rich.]

Some people worry about jewellery (The Lord of the Rings)

 

[Ancora Imparo]

Waves (The Old Man and the Sea)

 

[LJ Beck]

Immortal Dude fights other immortals for a really long time to get a shitty prize. (Highlander)

Everyone dies. (Game of Thrones)

It's all in your head. (The Matrix)

 

[Vagabond Heart]

He got rich but it didn't help (the Great Gatsby)
Girl got 3 sisters (Little Women)
No one is happy this year (1984)
Shit happens, often involving twins (Complete works of Shakespeare)

 

[Rich.]

Guy gets angry (The Iliad)
Guy gets lost (The Odyssey)

 

[Jonny]

Some Dubliners do stuff, although exactly what it is isn't very clear. (Ulysses)

Ordinary little geezer who lives in a hole books an action break. (The Hobbit)

 

[Barbara]

A botanist watches potatoes grow on Mars. (The Martian)

 

[Jonny]

Greedy kid complains about portion sizes at his digs. (Oliver Twist)

 

[E G Logan]

Anglo-Saxon warrior's day out (Beowulf)

 

[Rich.]

A botanist watches potatoes grow on Mars. (The Martian)

This one is brilliant! Boredom encapsulated!

 

[Barbara]

Bloke with large teeth hates daylight. (Dracula)

 

[Rich.]

Kids play in cupboard (The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe)

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

A girl does the night shift in a tent (The Night Circus)

 

[Jonny]

A herbaceous border gets really out of hand. (The Day of The Triffids)

A bit like Mr Benn but without all the costume changes. (The Midnight Library)

A bunch of schoolkids learn some magic stuff. (The Harry Potter Series)

A young girl experiments with mind-altering substances. (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

What a disappointment - not even one spiny mammal at all. (Herzog)

 

[Rich.]

Friends spend time in box (Dr Who)

Disgruntled folk make fuss, in space (every Star Wars story)

Not all the words (Oxford Concise English Dictionary)

 

[Claire G]

The Girl on the Train (enough said)

 

[Jonny]

(Last one... honest.) I blame B.

Avoid. He isn't even in it. Neither is Miss Piggy. (Kismet)

 

[Barbara]

Lots of outdated information (AKA who needs it when we have Google) Encyclopedia Britannica.

 

[Ancora Imparo]

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (The Secret Life of Bees)

 

[Vagabond Heart]

He was married before: get over it (Rebecca)
Rabbits move from one place to another (Watership Down)
Animals that weirdly don't hibernate (The wind in the willows)

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (The Secret Life of Bees)

I think you'll find that's Bzzzzzzzzzzz Shushhhh

 

[RK Wallis]

Girl gets rich guy (Pride and Prejudice)
Girl gets rich guy (Crazy Rich Asians)
Girl gets rich guy then dies (Anna Karenina)
Cop does their job (Silence of the Lambs)
Guy builds big building (Pillars of the Earth)

This is too much fun B, lol! But also good practice at learning how to learn to logline the opposite way and see how something boring can be turned into something interesting

 

[Barbara]

Woman with bad fashion sense wants to kill ex. (Kill Bill Vol 1)

Woman whose fashion sense hasn't improved still wants to kill ex. (Kill Bill Vol 2)

 

[Jake E]

Obsessed man wonders what's in a tower (the dark tower)

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Girls walks. (The Wizard of Oz)

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Girls walks. (The Wizard of Oz)

or, or, girl gets lost then goes home again, lol (God, I'm enjoying this thread).

 

[RK Wallis]

(God, I'm enjoying this thread)

It's bloody brilliant, lol

Kid plays virtual war games (Ender's Game)
Man travels to Paris (Da Vinci Code)

 

[Rich.]

Man's trip is interrupted (Robinson Crusoe)
Man takes boat on river (Heart of Darkness)
Woman forms opinions (Pride and Prejudice)
Some Russians occasionally speak French (War and Peace)