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Old 03-13-2006, 03:38 AM
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Comedy Condensed Classics.
Mark Twain defined a literary classic as "A book that everyone wants to have read, but nobody wants to read." So, if you also subscribe to this point of view, then these amusingly pithy summaries might be just what you need. :cool:

http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

There's even a SF/F section: http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/sff.shtml , and a bedtime and movie section, too.
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No other replies? No wonder I couldn't find the thread.

My favourite:
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, By Italo CalvinoYou think you're reading a condensation of If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, but you're not.
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i wish i had invented that website.
it made me laugh out loud a couple of times.
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That is great! :roflmao:
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:abook: :giggle: Thanks.
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I love Rinkworks! Check out the "Computer stupidities" section.
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Quote:
Frederic Henry

I'm separated from my true love in World War I Italy.

Catherine Barkley

Here I am. Let's hide in Switzerland, whoops, (dies).

Frederic Henry

War has made me cynical.


wow, that is just great
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not as good as huckfinn


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