Book-A-Minute SF/F

[KitanaVorr]

I found this site and thought it was hilarious sarcasm. There are a few familiar books in there so its worth a gander at for a good laugh.

http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/sff.shtml



Tell me which is your favorite book a minute sci/fi or fantasy.

 

[Cedric]

Good Omens
By Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard

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Five billion people almost DIE, and it is FUNNY.



THE END

That is just too funny...

Cedric

 

[Lady Mer]

I truly, truly love the Ultra Condensed versions of the Wheel of Time books. For example, the Great Hunt is reduced to:

Rand al'Thor

I want to do something. But doing this something is probably what the Aes Sedai want me to do, so I will do something else. But doing that something else may be what they want me to do, because they think I think they want me to do the first thing, so I'll decide to do this other thing instead. So I'll just do the first thing, since I want to do it anyway. Screw them.

(Repeat seven hundred times.)

THE END

But the Dragonlance books are fun too.

 

[noretoc]

I usually love parodies and sarcasm, but I didn't think the site was funny at all. Only a couple of condensed books had any humor at all, most of them, were just so way off, there was no humor. (Sarcastic parodies from Mad magazine. Thoes were the bomb)

 

[Fast Learner]

A few familiar books? I know every single one of them and have read the bulk. But then I'm old.

That said, some of them were pretty funny, imo, but some of them were excrutiatingly lame (just trying to trash the author).

Funny: 2002: A Space Odyssey, The Andromeda Strain, Splinter of the Mind's Eye (but I read it when it first came out, prior to the reveal, so it wasn't EWWWW yet), Winter's Heart, Ringworld, The Two Towers.

Lame: The Collected Work of H. P. Lovecraft, The Collected Work of Anne McCaffrey, Dune (just because you don't get it doesn't mean the rest of us don't).

 

[s/LaSH]

Ah, I always loved that place. Even if it hasn't updated in ages, I've spent enough time away I can come back and enjoy some reducio ad absurdo. Sometimes it's the utter (and probably intentional) missing of the point, sometimes it's the eerie accuracy of the summary. (If the movie's anything to go by: http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/rice.interview.shtml)

 

[KitanaVorr]

I truly, truly love the Ultra Condensed versions of the Wheel of Time books. For example, the Great Hunt is reduced to:


But the Dragonlance books are fun too.

LOL I know! I read those and said "DAMN! that's definitely those books! And eeriely mirrored what I had thought when I read them too!

 

[KitanaVorr]

Ah, I always loved that place. Even if it hasn't updated in ages, I've spent enough time away I can come back and enjoy some reducio ad absurdo. Sometimes it's the utter (and probably intentional) missing of the point, sometimes it's the eerie accuracy of the summary. (If the movie's anything to go by: http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/rice.interview.shtml)

LOL I agree. Some of them are pretty lame, but I found enough humor in there to enjoy the site regardless myself.

 

[Tsyr]

I rather hated their treatment of Ender's Game... Ender's Game is one of my favorite books of all time.

 

[dreaded_beast]

i like it.

at least it gives me a list of more books to read.