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[geekchick]

I know I've posted a link to the Book a Minute site before, but it deserves repeating. Ultra-condensed versions of all sorts of books. For example:

The Collected Work of Isaac Asimov

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Eye of the World (If only "condensed" were actually in Robert Jordan's vocabulary, I might not've given up about halfway through the series.)

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[gsh]

The Asimov story is missing the bad puns.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

My favorite ia The Collected Works of e.e. cummings"

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

I refer to Jordan's series as "The Wheel of Grind." I nearly gave up on the first book before the 100th page and still wish I had.

I read most of the second. I read only the parts with Nynaeve in them, and the ending of the third. By the fourth, halfway through, I found myself even skimming Nynaeve's sections, and I decided I would try to predict the ending. Rather than write it down, I jumped straight to the end, confirmed my suspicions and threw the book across the room, in the vague direction of the garbage can.

:P

One of the few books I gave up on partway through. I will even read cereal boxes to the end, for the most part.

But thank you for the link.

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

*after actually having read the link*

BWAH!!!

*off to go look for more*

[geekchick]

The ultra-condensed version of "The Great Hunt" is pretty accurate too. ;)

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

Yes, and SO true.

I loved the one for "Splinter of the Mind's Eye".

I felt similarly about "Interview with a Vampire" except I would have added:

Reader: *yawns widely, puts down book in search of something to eat, never bothers to come back*

But that's just me. *g*