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The field for this prestigious award has been weak lately (I heard a guy who didn't even write a book won this year) so I've racked my brain and came up with three ideas that I think could propel me into the literary limelight. Feedback appreciated tia The Shrew Remains Untamed A play director is forced to cast an actual shrew in his production of The Taming of the Shrew The Milkman's Burden The main character writes a novel called "The Milkman's Burden" as a tribute to his deceased wife, the twist is she's alive and has eloped with a milkman. Pablo's Butler About a guy who is a Butler for a guy named Pablo, they live in an apartment in Minneapolis |
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Stanky Doody, drop the Attitudey the life and times of a man named Stanky Doody and his struggle living and being named Stanky Doody set in world war 2 |
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Oct 26, 2016 03:05
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Phinnegans Wayke - the plot doesn't even matter, it's about an Irishman or something, the point is it's 50 pages long and written in Basic English. it exists entirely so that pretentious people can, when asked whether they've read Finnegan's Wake, answer in the affirmative while clinging to the faintest shred of truthfulness.
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Whistles for the Whistlemaker A coming of age story about a young woman who enters the high stakes, fast paced world of competitive whistling and finds herself in over her head. |
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The wRapper A boy discarded by society and his family is forced to work at an Amazon.com shipping center in the holiday gift wrapping department. Little did he know here he would meet his destiny as he accidentally opens a radioactive boombox that gives him super rapping powers. Along with his side kick diVerse, wRapper fights to protect Amazon.com customers from identity thieves.
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The Biscuit Man An unfortunate, (American) biscuit-shaped man lives a sad life of ostracism, but finds his way when he learns that the UK doesn't have biscuits yet, and runs a campaign for the biscuit race to receive recognition in the UK |
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Oct 26, 2016 04:42
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Father posted:The Biscuit Man |
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As Gregor Samsa Jr. awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic Objectivist. |
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Oct 26, 2016 04:59
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write it in french or something
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Oct 26, 2016 05:36
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Song of the Sea A man who lives on the coast sings each night to the ocean in memory of his deceased love. The neighbors get sick of this and call the police, who say that there's nothing they can do because it's before 10PM and local ordinances say it's not illegal until after that time. High on the hog, 90's style. |
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The Good Judge A judge of the prestigious Virtuous Foundation fights to give equal representation to a fifth grader's really good book. |
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Piso Mojado posted:A book of just my posts Hey, it worked for Bob Dylan. |
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Are You There, Judy Blume? It's Me, Brittany Minge, With More Extremely Specific Questions About My Growing Body That I Keep Mailing To You, Part 4: The Clitoris, Huh? What's Even Up With That, Right Judy? |
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The Dogs along the Border Takes place in Iceland and is actually about prairie dogs who must find their way home |
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Oct 26, 2016 12:07
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The Sellout A mediocre black author writes a lame satire of American race relations 40 years after it would have been relevant, white people say it's funny to show how woke they are. Author wins Man Booker prize and gets a show on Adult Swim, probably. At night he gets visited by the ghosts of Ralph Ellison, Richard Pryor and Dave Chapelle. |
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misty mountaintop posted:Hey, it worked for Bob Dylan. byob dylan
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write a book about how good Sweden is and have several chapters be about how great the nobel prize committee is
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Ahundredbux posted:write a book about how good Sweden is and have several chapters be about how great the nobel prize committee is The Nobel Prize Committee is Sexy by misty mountaintop ---------------- |
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Gone with the Igloo Gone with the Wind adapted for the Canadian market. |
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The Horse Whisperer A rancher who is down on his luck discovers his horse can talk, but only in a very quiet, almost inaudible whisper. The two become best of friends but a feud with a wealthy neighbor results in the rancher going deaf. The latter half of the book follows the trials and tribulations of the horse as he teaches himself sign language, finally able to communicate with his dear friend only days before the rancher goes blind.
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The Man in the Maps A story of the illusive man who appears in the google maps doing weed in front of his house and how you sought out his weed based guidance.
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sequel to byobrabian tales
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1500quidporsche posted:The field for this prestigious award has been weak lately (I heard a guy who didn't even write a book won this year) so I've racked my brain and came up with three ideas that I think could propel me into the literary limelight. Feedback appreciated tia I would read the hell out of each and every one of these. Pearls Before Swine The journal of a bearded hipster and doctoral student in literature at a prestigious university, who is stuck eternally being a TA for English 101 and its boorish young students until his mentor finally approves his thesis about gender fluidity in 1400s-era Slavic novels. Includes margin notes about which freshman girls have the best boobs.
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A Sopaipilla in the Sun A culinary tour of America's marginalized communities and their junk foods. |
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House of Trees A chilling story within a story within a story, centralized around the narrative of a young film maker who moves into a new home with his family. They are shocked to find a hidden marijuana grow operation under the house, but the lines between reality and the unknown are blurred when attempts to map the corridors of pot plants uncover the non-Euclidean geometry encasing the dank nuggs. |
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The thirsty man knocks twice The story of a young man's quest to replace all his glassware with old pasta sauce mason jars, but when the grocery store discontinues the pasta sauce he must go to extraordinary lengths to get the last mason jar he needs. |
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Oct 26, 2016 18:43
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LawfulWaffle posted:House of Trees Haze (purple), 4, 110-111, 313, 335-338, 540 Haze (black) . . . DNE |
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I, Goon A refreshing take on the classic 'I, Claudius', in which a poster pretends to be dumb to escape the attention and power struggles in a treacherous forum. |
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misty mountaintop posted:The 17 Funniest International Conflicts Caused by Autocorrect FAILS! You Won't Believe Number 7 lol also what's number 7 please tell me thanks please |
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Blindness 2: Stuck in a Blind the year is 2017, the power grid goes out but everyone thinks there's just something wrong with their oculus rift, some say their bodies still hammered the power button on and off after death. the few who realize the truth are afraid to take off their headsets to find out what's out there |
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Oh Say I Must Pee Hunky Don is the president of the United States of America. But how can he love his country when he can't love himself. Follow Hunky Don on his day-to-day struggles making decisions impacting a nation and a world at large juxtaposed with deep-seated insecurities and a leaky wiener. |
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social vegan posted:Blindness 2: Stuck in a Blind |
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social vegan posted:Blindness 2: Stuck in a Blind Hah I was trying to think of a way to do a sequel to Blindness. ---------------- |
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misty mountaintop posted:Hah I was trying to think of a way to do a sequel to Blindness. Blindness 3: The Blindness was inside us all along One autumn day, everyone wakes up to find that people have become blue and smaller and they wear white hats and pants and people have become the smurfs the smurfs are real on earth on real earth not smurf earth where was i going with this |
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Westwrold Using cowboys found encased in amber and splicing their DNA with that of common frogs, scientists create an amusement park full of authentic cowboys on a tropical island paradise. Visitors ride in automated wagons through different jungle zones hoping to catch a glimpse of the cowboys grazing, mating and ripping apart their prey in authentic cowboy ways. Things go terribly wrong though and our protagonists must fight to escape the island before they are savagely hunted and eaten by cowboys.
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"Homeward Bound 3: Sassy's Inferno - A Novelization of the Feature Film" Those lovably goofy pets are at it again! This time they must traverse the seven layers of Hell to reach their family in time for Thanksgiving. |
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The Walking Man In a dystopia future all films based on Stephen King's books are direct adaptations and people go insane from the results. |
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The Life of Pie A young man is forced through a harrowing coming of age story when his father, a professional competitive eater, brings him along on a cruise ship trip into international waters for an illegal eating tournament. Disaster strikes and the boy must become a man while fighting to survive in a lifeboat adrift in the Pacific and laden with pastries... but without a single drop of milk. |
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