I’m more than a little behind in penning
reviews of my recent literary conquests. Hopefully I can get through the
backlog before I forget the books completely. Until then, however, I thought it
might be fun to play around with a more forgiving form of criticism: the one
line review. Here are a handful of so-called classics, summed up in a single sentence:
- Middlesex: My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets 5-alpha reductase deficiency
- Silas Marner, because anti-social cataleptic weavers make good fathers, too.
- Jane Eyre: Finally, a romance for the homely.
- Wuthering Heights: reality TV before TV ever existed.
- Crime and Punishment: it’s Lizzy Borden meets Colombo- in St. Petersburg!
- As I Lay Dying: when your mom dies you should probably cut your dad some slack- unless he’s a complete sumbitch
- The Turn of the Screw: It’s what the Sixth Sense would have been if Bruce Willis were a Victorian era governess.
- Grapes of Wrath, because even though your life might swing between bad and awful, at least you’re not suckling emaciated homeless strangers yet.
Got any others to add?
The Grapes of Wrath line made me laugh. It can't get any worse than that.
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