Summarise your favourite book.....

[thedelbwa]

.....in one sentence.

EG - The Beach

Guy discovers paradise only to realise that it's far from it.

Poor example, I know

[jake-the-peg]

I heard Romeo and Juliet described thus:

Love you, love you too! I'm dead, me too! just kidding!...Oh ******!

[andy-hughes]

'The Mind Parasites' by Colin Wilson - the threat was always there, but we were born to overcome.

'Salem's Lot' by Stephen Kind - this can't be happening ... but it is, and we have to deal with it.

[andy-hughes]

Oops - make that King!

[saxy_jag]

Humble blacksmith's apprentice gets an unknown benefactor and becomes a gentleman and a snob, only to discover that his benefactor is also from humble origins.

Great Expectations.

[fairkatrina]

Brother and sister fall in love, their parents die, their older brother and his wife die, her fiance's parents die, she dies, he dies, his kid dies, the other kids live happily ever after with the nosey housemaid and some lodger who wrote it all down. (Wuthering Heights)

Poor girl falls for rich man, runs away and becomes poor again, inherits money and gives it away, then marries the rich man anyway. (Jane Eyre)

A bloke's soul and some paint trade places. (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

[Metz]

IT -clowns aren't always nice

[graemer]

Next time you see see a kid having a tanty in a supermarket and a distressed parent throws him over the shoulder and carries him out , don't automatically think "brat" or "ADS".
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime"