I’d seen the Movie-A-Minute website but not this Book-A-Minute one where classics are ultra-condensed. This, for example, is Great Expectations by Dickens (beautifully distilled by Conrad Jacoby)
Pip
I’m Pip. I’m poor.
(Lots of THINGS happen.)
Pip
My life didn’t matter, because I’m still poor and alone.
THE END
5 responses so far ↓
1 warthog // Jul 11, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Hmmm.
James Bond.
I got the girl in the supporting role
Played golf
Went off to 3 different “exotic” locations around the world
Escaped death
Got the girl in the main “heroine” role.
Wiped out the main evil henchmen/women…plus the evil “facility”….then “Mr Evil” once I had the satisfaction of watching him see his evil plan destroyed in front of his eyes.
Got the heroine again..in some sort of lifeboat/escape capsule.
M makes some witty double entendre like “Keep it up, Bond!”
The End.
2 warthog // Jul 11, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Add…
Played golf/cards in a casino/raced cars or boats
3 squib // Jul 11, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Very good, though a bit long winded
4 PrimroseRoad // Jul 11, 2008 at 12:27 pm
If only I’d known about this when I was taking that Victorian Novel class …
5 squib // Jul 11, 2008 at 12:43 pm
And how I wish I’d had a tutor at uni who’d said, ‘I want a 3 sentence essay…’
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