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  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Shipmate
    For A Few Dollars Moore -- Two bounty hunters seek out Othello.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Oedipus T-Rex

    Incestuous and murderous drama which finally sheds light on the disappearance of dinosaurs.
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    Not a book but an album, if you'll pardon.

    Days of Future Paste

    A concept album about projected developments in adhesives.
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Mary Ploppins

    Someone slipped the nanny a laxative.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    The Sound Off Music

    Songs to rant to.
  • PigwidgeonPigwidgeon Shipmate
    The King and Pi - A school teacher gives the monarch lessons in geometry.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Olivier!

    An orphan escapes the workhouse and ends up playing Hamlet.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Shipmate
    Bell, Brook and Candle -- A modern-day witch casts a spell on the finance of an old college rival, causing him to think that he is a fish.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    "A la recherche des tempos perdus"

    A jazz composer spends seven volumes trying to re-catch those rhythms that he once heard in his head but can't quite remember.

    (sorry - the other words have had to make some attempt to agree with the single change.)
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    Cart on a Hot Tin Roof
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    Tevye, leaving Anatevka with all his belongings on a barrow, is caught up in a whirlwind, winding up next to a fiddler.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Shipmate
    edited March 2019
    Fanny Ill -- Subtitled "Memoirs of a Proctologist"
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    Salving Private Ryan

    With burns over most of his body, and far from the nearest first aid station, all the GIs could do was apply burn ointment and transport him out.
  • Pearl B4 SwinePearl B4 Swine Shipmate
    Trebel without a cause
    A lazy boy soprano drifts from church to church, not caring where or what he sings.

    ***Yes, I know how to spell it***
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    The Four Loaves

    CS Lewis writes on different ways of baking
  • PigwidgeonPigwidgeon Shipmate
    The Lion, the Switch, and the Wardrobe- Sometimes it gets pretty dark in that wardrobe and one needs to turn the light on.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Amanda B Reckondwyth wrote: »
    Fanny Ill -- Subtitled "Memoirs of a Proctologist"
    I suppose(itory) that goes over here, akshually?
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Prides and Prejudice

    Mr Darcy’s efforts to turn Pemberley into a safari park meet with deep-rooted local opposition.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Shipmate
    Wesley J wrote: »
    Amanda B Reckondwyth wrote: »
    Fanny Ill -- Subtitled "Memoirs of a Proctologist"
    I suppose(itory) that goes over here, akshually?

    Yup, my mistake.
  • CathscatsCathscats Shipmate
    Firenze wrote: »
    Prides and Prejudice

    Mr Darcy’s efforts to turn Pemberley into a safari park meet with deep-rooted local opposition.

    Giggling uncontrollably!
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Shipmate
    Bleak Houses -- Charles Dickens' satirical criticism of council flats.
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    Aguirre, the Wraith of God

    Our hero takes off for South America to find the fabled city of gold, but is turned by the deity into a vengeful ghost.
  • The5thMaryThe5thMary Shipmate
    The Grapes Of Wraith:

    A malevolent spirit harasses the workers in a vineyard.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Strainspotting - a group of engineers travels around the country looking for dangerous overstressed bridges.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Off to Philadelphia in the Mourning
    Heart-warming story of a man's ambition to travel to the City of Brotherly Love after a family bereavement.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    The Square Fellow Coruscating play about the vacant life and times of a particularly un-woke Don.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    The Highland Window a little known work by Sir Walter Scott on the wonders of Scots fenestration.
  • tclunetclune Shipmate
    The Invisible Mean

    Sociological study of the tendency of marketing to appeal to the extremes.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    The Lardykillers

    Tale of a murderous gang who prey on overweight old ladies.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited May 2019
    The Old Man and the Seam: the riveting story who watches his trousers finally fall apart.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    The Curious Incident of the Doge in the Night-time: still on the Index of Forbidden Books, probably with good reason.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    ... then there are the wonderful works of Hugh Walpole:

    Rogue Cherries killer fruit and Judith Parish, the story of a foundling adopted by an entire community.

    And who can forget Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodices - such a brilliant recreation of the drama of the couturier's atelier.
  • The RogueThe Rogue Shipmate
    ENT

    An alien seeks medical help for his nasal issues.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    All Quiet on the Western Font
    re-telling the myth about the magical baby-calming properties of baptism.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Right Hop, Jeeves a humorous take on a middle-aged man-servant's attempt to learn tap-dancing.

    Burro - Gore Vidal's sudden break from historical drama and intrigue into the whimsical world of a humble donkey.
  • Bob Two OwlsBob Two Owls Shipmate
    edited May 2019
    Barechester Towers - the Bishop's new chaplain was absolutely ripped and let everyone know about it.
  • agingjbagingjb Shipmate
    Mansfield Spark, Fanny Price, shivering in her attic, tries to light a fire, which gets out of control and rapidly engulfs the whole building.
  • McMaverickMcMaverick Shipmate
    A Plaice called There
    About a fish who tries to fit in but it doesn’t stop people pointing.
  • The5thMaryThe5thMary Shipmate
    Fahrenheit 45: The 45th President of the United States of America can't read and doesn't like it when anyone else reads anything but his stupid Tweets...so he burns all the books.
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