# Every book by an author- now in one sentence! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975 "2010-08-03T04:40:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/1 "2010-08-03T04:40:18Z")
Dick Frances: Injured jockey stumbles upon sinister plot, then gets beat up. Next? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/2 "2010-08-03T04:51:06Z")
[Summarize Proust.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAOc4g3K-g) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/3 "2010-08-03T06:26:20Z")
Summary of all of Hemingway’s works: . ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/4 "2010-08-03T06:33:21Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Summary of all of Hemingway’s works: > > . It was good. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/5 "2010-08-03T06:40:46Z")
Spider Robinson: After a little weed, tons of booze, Heinlein worship, a guest star, and some good music, the world was saved, again. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/6 "2010-08-03T09:44:48Z")
Shakespeare Tradegy: boy meets girl, fight scene, comedy crossdressing scene, everyone dies horribly. Shakespeare Comedy: boy meets girl, comedy cross dressing scene, another comedy cross dressing scene, eveyone lives happily ever after. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/7 "2010-08-03T11:47:20Z")
Dickens: Poor (but honest and dependable) orphan boy undergoes miserable experiences at hands of nasty authority figures, comes out fine in the end. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/8 "2010-08-03T11:50:28Z")
Carl Hiaasen: Idiot comes to Florida, does stupid, environmentally damaging things, a bearded man in a showercap comes appears, poetic justice is delivered. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/9 "2010-08-03T11:52:55Z")
John Grisham: A young lawyer tries to maintain his integrity when he discovers a preponderance of corruption and cynicism in his new profession. Stephen King: An eclectic group of Mainers worry about personal problems and situations that end up not mattering one bit after the damnedest thing happens. ---
**Author:** ![tsukaesugi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@tsukaesugi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsukaesugi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/10 "2010-08-03T12:01:35Z")
Haruki Murakami: Thirty-something self-employed divorcee ponders the whimsies of fate and females while cooking and listening to jazz. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/11 "2010-08-03T12:04:45Z")
Agatha Christie: Rich 1930’s family reunites in their ancestral manor where one (or more) of them end up murdered and it takes a ridiculous-looking Belgian detective or old maid to find the culprit. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/12 "2010-08-03T12:39:07Z")
H.P. Lovecraft: Aaaiiaiigigiigiigighhhhhhhhh!!! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/13 "2010-08-03T12:41:55Z")
Cormac McCarthy: the world goes to hell in a handbasket for a man who is already weary. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/14 "2010-08-03T12:47:04Z")
JK Rowling: An orphan boy is chased by a physcopathic murderer for 7 years. J.R.R. Tolkein: Jewelry. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/15 "2010-08-03T12:58:19Z")
Stephanie Meyer: Vegan Vampire and Teenage Werewolf are both chastely interested in the blandest small town girl ever. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/16 "2010-08-03T13:12:45Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > Spider Robinson: After a little weed, tons of booze, Heinlein worship, a guest star, and some good music, the world was saved, again. Nitpick: If you left out Mindkiller (and only focused on the Callahan Universe), you would be correct… ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/17 "2010-08-03T13:15:47Z")
Martin Amis - East End lout and Regents Park toff are bound up in unseemly circumstances involving the unplanned rape of some unhappy immigrant and, in an amusing twist of fate, the rapist contracts HIV. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/18 "2010-08-03T13:20:29Z")
Lemony Snickert: Three orphan children are chased by a Count. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/19 "2010-08-03T13:35:39Z")
Any Spenser or Elvis Cole mystery: Wise-cracking private eye uncovers crime conspiracy with aid of silent brooding superman sidekick, turns down lusty but unworthy babes, is threatened by sinister but clumsy crooks who are vanquished by an explosion of regenerative violence. > [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > Dickens: Poor (but honest and dependable) orphan boy undergoes miserable experiences at hands of nasty authority figures, comes out fine in the end. Horatio Alger: Poor (but honest and dependable) orphan boy undergoes miserable experiences, is befriended by helpful authority figures, ends up owning half of lower Broadway, befriends other poor orphans. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975/20 "2010-08-03T13:40:10Z")
Any culinary mystery: Caterer with cop boyfriend/husband discovers dead body. With recipes! Jessica Fletcher: Writer discovers dead body, one of her relatives is the prime suspect, but is found to be innocent. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-book-by-an-author-now-in-one-sentence/548975.md?page=2)