Dandelion Break Boring Book Summary - A Challenge

[Barbara]

Bloke who can't sleep meets a soap sales man, and together they start a fight club. (Fight Club)

Honey-guzzling bear is friends with a miserable git of a donkey. (Winnie th P)

 

[Barbara]

"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Dad, are we there yet? Now are we there?" (The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy)


..... What have I started? ....

 

[E G Logan]

Young nobleman goes trick-or-treating, grows up (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

 

[E G Logan]

Rabbits Live Dangerously (Peter Rabbit)

 

[Jonny]

Ignore planning application notices at your peril (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

A collection of oddballs and right proper weirdos pointlessly mooch around a gothic castle (Titus Groan)

A tight-fisted, miserable old git finds redemption one night. (A Christmas Carol)

Socially inept schoolboy writes about what he does every day. (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - aged 13¾)

 

[Jake E]

Wizard travels round the world to find the sex of a turtle. (Colour of Magic/ The Light Fantastic)

 

[Ancora Imparo]

You What?? (The Psychpathology of Everyday Life; Freud)
Boy paints fence; doesn't finish (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Long river trip (Huckleberry Finn)

 

[Jonny]

Hard to see what all the fuss is about (Jude the Obscure)

 

[Jake E]

Young boy tricked into rubbish cruise by cook.
(Treasure Island)

 

[Jake E]

Four boys find a dead body and never speak to each other again.
(The body/Stand by me)

 

[Ancora Imparo]

Oh, @Barbara what have you started here! This is a fab thread. So many good ideas. As Rachel @RK Wallis says, it's a great exercise. And great fun.

 

[Barbara]

Stalkers paradise (The phone book)

 

[Rich.]

Stalkers paradise (The phone book)

Dark. Very dark

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Priest makes awkward home visit (The Exorcist)
Aliens did it (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Nosy kids piss about (The Famous Five)

 

[Jonny]

A traditional blend granulated sugar and glucose syrup - watch your teeth. (Brighton Rock)

A trip with my mum's sister (Travels With My Aunt)

One fewer than forty but one more than 38 (The 39 Steps)

A surfeit of Scottish Spirits (Whisky Galore)

 

[Barbara]

Husband would better do what wife says, or else ... (Macbeth)

Chauvinistic git saves world from cat owner, and as a thanks, gets the girl (any James Bond)

 

[Barbara]

One fewer than forty but one more than 38 (The 39 Steps)

I'm still laughing.....

 

[Jonny]

Stalkers paradise (The phone book)

And me at this. Laughing, that is.

 

[Barbara]

The year Footloose, the song, did well in the charts (1984)

 

[Jonny]

Extremely worthy story, but in fairness, there might've been a few more tunes. (Captain Corelli's Mandolin)

 

[Barbara]

The day an author misspelt 'elephant' (Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine)

 

[Barbara]

Everybody deserves to die and indeed most of them die (the old testament)
Everybody deserves to die but most are redeemed (the new testament)

A really short person who lives in a hole of sorts. (The Hobbit)

No bird was harmed and nobody laughed (To Kill a Mocking Bird)

 

[Rich.]

Everybody deserves to die and indeed most of them die (the old testament)

Everybody deserves to die and indeed most of them die (Game of Thrones)

 

[Jonny]

A man puts some underpants on his head, sticks two pencils up his nose, and says "wibble". (Catch 22)

The tale of a Tarmac gang rebuilding infrastructure following an apocalyptic event. (On The Road)

 

[Barbara]

Bloke props dead mother up by the window (Psycho)

 

[Vagabond Heart]

The day an author misspelt 'elephant' (Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine)

This is my favourite so far

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

A bloke suffers an identity crisis (The seven Deaths of Evelyn Hugo)

"Round the bend," they said. It's not round the bend. It's bloody miles away. (The House at the End of the World)

 

[Jake E]

Man with two swords goes to look for his surrogate daughter after a party (The Witcher)

 

[RK Wallis]

Ignore planning application notices at your peril (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Still laughing...

 

[Jake E]

Boy wanders around outside at night.
(Tom's midnight garden)

 

[Serra K]

Down on his luck musician goes to school (The Name of the Wind)