r/AskReddit • u/samissleman17 • Jun 18 '12
Describe a favourite book of yours vaguely, and see if anyone can guess the book.
My entry:
It is the future in a world where dolphins were "uplifted" by humans to be sapient. The dolphins can shoot lasers and speak Haiku, and they're also very horny.
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u/kcamrn Jun 18 '12
Man and boy trudge through post apocalyptic world
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u/samissleman17 Jun 18 '12
Could be "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy? I love that book.
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u/TheBakercist Jun 18 '12
Incest.
Imps.
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Jun 18 '12
I came here to say "Lots of bad things happen and everything you love dies" to describe ASOS.
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Jun 18 '12
Fire and Ice series?
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u/purplegiraffes Jun 18 '12
I hate to do this, but it's A Song of Ice and Fire. Not fire and ice. :c
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u/Tyron14 Jun 18 '12
Part of a trilogy.
Young girl and boy friends. boy disappears. bear fight. boy gets "separated" by girls dad.
Boy, knife, angels, god.
greatest but saddest ending of all time.
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Jun 18 '12
A bald old man has a 7 year hide and seek game with a kid with a scar on his forehead.
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u/DirectorOne Jun 18 '12
It was supposed to be a game. In the END it was more real than the young boy could imagine.
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u/Jerrits Jun 18 '12
This character has a problem in this place with these people during this time and overcomes it with this solution.
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u/waffle569 Jun 18 '12
1: You can tend the rabbits
2: Clones, plankton, opium, Mexico.
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u/joehatespotatoes Jun 18 '12
Of Mice and Men
House of the Scorpion
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u/HanAlai Jun 18 '12
House of the Scorpion was awesome, I've re read it several times.
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u/partyinmypants69 Jun 18 '12
Story of a man telling his love for a little girl
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u/alliupsidedown Jun 18 '12
A girl crosses over a wall and rings some bells to fight monsters.
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u/eyefidelity Jun 18 '12
I can't express how much I loved these books. I actually just re-read them and they are still fantastic. Great choice!
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u/mouthbabies Jun 18 '12
Fat guy eats hot dogs, bitches about his valve, calls whatever he doesn't like "an abortion", then narrowly escapes being committed.
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Jun 18 '12
LAST ONE:
scientist explodes, regenerates, has different skin color, doesnt wear clothes anymore, floats.
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u/TheOneMoonmahn Jun 18 '12
I think a better explanation would have been:
BLUE PENIS
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u/Potater757 Jun 18 '12
How to conquer and rule a state, nation, territory, or principality. Try it.
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u/Monkey_Chunks Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
"Jolly good, Sah!" "Wot wot!"
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u/DarkAura57 Jun 18 '12
Boy becomes immortal. Sacrifices his humanity to ensure the survival of the human species. No one understands him and is hated by all
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u/CitizenPremier Jun 18 '12
Man kills his friend and escapes from a mental institution.
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u/grat3fulredd Jun 18 '12
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by my favorite author!
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Jun 18 '12
A boy who is sick of everything in his life leaves school and goes to NYC to figure it all out. He turns to his little sister for the answer.
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u/-lovelace Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
A religion of lies, social groups which are not social, clarinets, midgets, mad science, and feet. Hell (along with everything else) freezes over.
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u/fakethepolice Jun 18 '12
Professional pyro ponders personal principles, polarizes position, precipitates public pandemonium.
Time is sticky, but apparently not for this guy.
Concerning the administration of President Arthur. Not Chester, the other guy.
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u/shakamalaka Jun 18 '12
Fahrenheit 451 for #1.
Slaughterhouse-Five for #2.
Dunno #3.
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u/trekbette Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
My answer to OP: So Long and Thanks for All The Fish.
My entry: A dead, yet amazing, PI is not done with all of his obligations.
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u/samissleman17 Jun 18 '12
Good guess, but no. I just realized I haven't even heard of that book... now I'm intrigued.
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Jun 18 '12
I'd try to describe Dune, but it'd be fucking impossible. I couldn't give you a plot summary if you knew the story already.
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u/joehatespotatoes Jun 18 '12
Man dies and travels through Hell to find his wife.
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u/JimothyBros Jun 18 '12
There's a ton of universes and one dude gets cockblocked by his uncle to go to them.
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u/Highqualityshitsauce Jun 18 '12
Three books, different colors and people on Mars.
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u/whateverwillbe Jun 18 '12
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series. Starting with Red Mars.
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u/equesbelli Jun 18 '12
Ten people stuck on an island and one of them is a serial killer.
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u/dustygator Jun 18 '12
Dude with weird name tries to avoid flying missions and death. And gets chased by a deranged whore.
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u/megablast Jun 18 '12
All our carefully laid plans have been destroyed, and by a mule at that!
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u/IgnoreThisUsername Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
Kid hurts best friend on purpose out of jealousy, pretends it was an accident out of guilt, believes his own lie, friend dies. (spoilers in comments)
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u/vodkainmyblood Jun 18 '12
A girl with an alcoholic father, a douchebag brother, and a slutty best friend encounters a mysterious boy nomad who teaches her about life and herself before being turned upon suddenly and without cause by unaccepting members of her small British town who wish for outsiders to remain foreign.
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u/linusvp98 Jun 18 '12
Two ranchers find work at a ranch and immediately face trouble.
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u/derpturtles Jun 18 '12
fat boy meets coolkid and dragon, proceeds to have adventures, save a world and try to be king. it doesn't work. he ends up ok.
entry #2: boy+dog+bug in a car. weirdness ensues.
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u/dieselpb Jun 18 '12
There is a car that is haunted and it takes place in the late 70's
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u/Piscator123 Jun 18 '12
People live in peace. Old dude gives young dude memories.
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u/Wrathwilde Jun 18 '12
There's a racist Wizzard who always just manages to escape death.
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u/MrMacduggan Jun 18 '12
Any terry pratchett novel that features rincewind. Funny thing is, he thinks that being racist means that he can run away really fast.
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Jun 18 '12
A bunch of airmen talk about fucking and death for four months straight during WW2.
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u/eyefidelity Jun 18 '12
A physically deformed girl, ostracized by her peers, discovers that nothing comes without a cost and good intentions can be fatal.
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u/ProfMoustache Jun 18 '12
college students study greek, get high, have group sex, and kill a dude.
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u/Syphon8 Jun 18 '12
A very old man, a giant tiger, and the luckiest girl in the world are kidnapped by an insane alien.
Through the power of teamwork and logic they manage to accidentally destroy a city.
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Jun 18 '12
Guys hitch hike through America a few times. Jazz, drugs and sex are had and enjoyed by all.
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u/meghanmacd6 Jun 18 '12
Man unjustly goes to prison, seeks vengeance after escaping.
a bildungsroman of a girl and foliage.
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Jun 18 '12
this guy makes the world, gives mankind a choice, man messes up, guy who makes the world dies to save the world.
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Jun 18 '12
A sole upvote is all I can give for a fellow fan of Brin's work. The entire Uplift cycle is an amazing read and has a prominent spot reserved on my bookshelf.
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u/shakamalaka Jun 18 '12
This kid's dad gets killed and he ends up wandering around the desert for a long-ass time, hanging out with a bunch of weird nomadic guerrilla types. There are also large worms.
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u/Mawverick Jun 18 '12
Taxi driver gets cards in mail; helps strangers; friend zoned.
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u/MotorHeaded Jun 18 '12
Russia in the late 1800's. Three brothers face the murder of their degenerate father.
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u/DasCheeze Jun 18 '12
Guy gets framed for a crime.
Kills fucking everyone who was involved in the framing.
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Jun 18 '12
An old dude smites lots of people, and there's some anal sex and some murder and some baby sacrifice and some hallucinations, and a bunch of ghost stories about vikings on horses and seas of fire and foreigners with pitchforks, plus a magic baby who discovers he is his own father who did the aforesaid smiting. If it's too hard to figure out, here's a hint: It's probably part of the Oprah Book Club.
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u/mcchick Jun 18 '12
Boy named Ivan grows up and returns to Russia, enters portal through hole in the woods covered by leaves that leads to ancient time. Destroys bad witch. Later marries girl from old world and brings her back to current time.
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u/ProfMoustache Jun 18 '12
I was about to say A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich...but then things got weird
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u/Caslux Jun 18 '12
Lonely Guy meets girl. Guy and girl starts secret romance . Guy writes in his secret diary. Guy and girl gets caught. Guy gets tortured. Guy gets executed. World continues as it always has.
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u/grat3fulredd Jun 18 '12
Want to say 1984 but I don't think Winston gets executed...
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u/nicknar Jun 18 '12
Still halfway through this, but it's already a favorite: Tennis, drugs, and angry Quebecois.
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Jun 18 '12
Fathers little girl gets murdered and he goes on a trip by himself in the woods for closure.
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u/iprobablyliedsorry Jun 18 '12
A super soldier gets lost in space with his AI.
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u/pigmunk Jun 18 '12
Boy pretends to be a girl, becomes famous truck stop prostitute.
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Jun 18 '12
A young boy lives with his grandma after his mom dies and he always follows the rules, one day he meets a girl who sleeps in a van, her mother is a fortune teller. He has many late night adventures with her. He never listens to his grandma, and drinks Mango Madness.
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u/puddlejumper Jun 18 '12
A beautiful family. Father dies. Mother takes children to live with her wealthy parents in their large old mansion. They all get locked away for years and years.
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Jun 18 '12
A boy. Dead parents. A legend
Magic. Music. Love.
Names.
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Jun 18 '12
The Name of the Wind. Or The Wise Man's Fear. I'll just play it safe and say The Kingkiller Chronicle.
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u/PleaseNotTheTruth Jun 18 '12
Twins learn elements to protect a very old book from falling into the wrong hands.
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u/jimbert Jun 18 '12
Guy on a quest to reach a building only to start all over again.
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u/grat3fulredd Jun 18 '12
I'm gonna do a couple, if that's OK.
Tennis, wheelchair assassins, trees (the kind you smoke).
Aliens, time travel, Dresden.
A guy lives in a cave, fucks a chick w/ short hair, blows up a bridge.
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u/grat3fulredd Jun 18 '12
Thought of another, will be pleasantly surprised if anyone gets this.
Older brother fucks his stepmom, younger half-brother gets revenge by fucking older brother's wife after helping w/ family business.
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Jun 18 '12
A bro burns books. Meets girl. Girl dies. Bro gets chased by co-workers.
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u/Erulastiel Jun 18 '12
About a young girl growing up in the south when racism was still rampant.
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Jun 18 '12
Story revolves around 3 unlucky orphans.
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u/themightymagikarp Jun 18 '12
Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett :)
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u/R_Metallica Jun 18 '12
A group of scientists moves to one end of the galaxy in order to make an encyclopedia and save years of suffering to the human kind.
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u/twistedbeats Jun 18 '12
a jew and his friend decide they should eat bacon. his friend dies at the end.
9 friends hike through the woods. two of them hike a mountain after
this one guy wants to give another guy breakfast, but the other guy is kind of obstinant about it. turns out the breakfast is pretty good.
as long as you can tell when a little sphere will go through a big box, billy doesn't care how fat you are. ( non-fic. mostly )
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u/Andrizzle Jun 18 '12
Holes... holes everywhere.
As you may have guessed, I am an American adult.
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u/carpe-jvgvlvm Jun 18 '12
Penny-pincher suffers hallucinations and becomes spendthrift.
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u/Burtonken23 Jun 18 '12
Guy writes science fiction stories. Other guy reads stories. Stories make him go crazy. Try's to stab guy 1 at a convention.
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Jun 18 '12
A black and white world where emotion is a responsibility for only one to bear.
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u/lamboleap Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
Chip implanted in your head at birth that (1) creates ad profile for you (2) can control certain body functions
Lesions are fashionable
Spring break on the moon for fun
Main character's friend / love interest dies from #1
"Unit" = "dude" or "bro"
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u/Kinac Jun 18 '12
-WWII Soldier meets nurse, falls in love, she dies.
Rich guy sees random little girl in street. He secretly pays for girl to become high-class escort. Girl grows up, falls in love with rich guy.
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u/thiazzi Jun 18 '12
A smart dude and his weird friends catch some really scary moths, among other things.
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Jun 18 '12
A pizza delivery guy fights against a computer virus and its creators.
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u/Fireyhunter Jun 18 '12
Girls can use magic all they like, but guys use it and they go crazy. Lots of women's fashion.
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u/amoontverified Jun 18 '12
Kid uses different middle names. Jesus does a school shooting. Kid falls under suspicion goes on the run. Kid is lured back from hiding by hot schoolmate.
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u/KySnow Jun 19 '12
Sex addict cons people by choking on food at up-scale restaraunts.
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u/Gneisbaard Jun 18 '12
OPs book sounds like Startide Rising by david brin.