Question Describe a book in six words

Arcanist Lupus wrote: I just saw a game on facebook that I thought would be fun to play here.

The idea is pretty much exactly as stated - you must describe a story that you like using exactly six words. Then other people guess what story it is.

For example:
"Boy gets bison, boobs, and angst" would be a description for the first Kayda story.

Domoviye wrote: Girl turns fairy, goes crazy.

Valentine wrote: Christmas in Los Angeles, Demons beware

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Miracles in New York. Greed abounds.

venum4k wrote: So I'm going to guess at the first one Arcanist Lupus said. Is it the Mistborn series? Specifically The Final Empire?

Sir Lee wrote: > Faerie and team fight horrible monstrosities
Could be a bunch of stories, really, but sounds like one of the Boston Brawls.

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: > Faerie and team fight horrible monstrosities
Could be a bunch of stories, really, but sounds like one of the Boston Brawls.

Not a Boston Brawl, but it is a Whateley story.

NeoMagus wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: > Faerie and team fight horrible monstrosities
Could be a bunch of stories, really, but sounds like one of the Boston Brawls.

Not a Boston Brawl, but it is a Whateley story.

I was personally leaning towards "Ill Winds"...

Valentine wrote: Girl runs away, learns to fight.
Girl's exciting adventures injures her soul.
Paladin quests for the missing king.

Sir Lee wrote:
OK, a few of my own:

Travelers fall into odd patchwork world.
Demoralized policemen fight mythical reptilian beast.
Their mission: destroy piece of jewelry
Martian orphan comes home, becomes Messiah.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Children use wizardry to slow entropy

Sir Lee wrote: Boy changes genders when getting wet
Unlucky boy engages alien demon princess

Domoviye wrote: Girl gets penis, almost sacrificed, twice.

Sir Lee wrote: A few more, some very easy, the others... not so much

Two war orphans shaking up Japan
Post-apocalyptic soldier confronts genocidal computer
Boy changes genders when getting wet - Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2, solved by Malady.
Unlucky boy engages alien demon princess
Country detaches itself, becomes floating island.

Angel and demon attempt defuse apocalypse

Character instructs author in publishing politics

Thief stars off-Broadway hit show.

Malady wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Children use wizardry to slow entropy

Puella Magi Magica Madoka?

Sir Lee wrote: Post-apocalyptic soldier confronts genocidal computer

Bullies attack prankster, get spooked back.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Malady wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Children use wizardry to slow entropy

Puella Magi Magica Madoka?

Actually to me this sounds like the "So you want to be a Wizard" series by Diana ... Nah, can't remember her last name,

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: Post-apocalyptic soldier confronts genocidal computer

Terminator?

Bullies attack prankster, get spooked back.

Steven King's Carrie?

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Girl gets penis, almost sacrificed, twice.

Didn't see anyone else answer this, Domoviye's own Fate Sucks.

Domoviye wrote: Not real girl gets eaten, hilarity

NeoMagus wrote: Umm...why didn't mine get added to the master list?

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: Post-apocalyptic soldier confronts genocidal computer

Terminator?

Sir Lee wrote: Country detaches itself, becomes floating island.

I want to say James Blish's "Cities in Space" series, but that was cities.
There was the Doctor Who Space Whale episode where Britan was floating in space on the back of an intergalactic whale, but that wasn't a book.

Sir Lee wrote: Angel and demon attempt defuse apocalypse

Good Omens

Sir Lee wrote: Character instructs author in publishing politics

Animal Farm?

Sir Lee wrote: Thief stars off-Broadway hit show.

The Producers? (Not a book again though)

Sir Lee wrote: Bullies attack prankster, get spooked back.

Steven King's Carrie?

Valentine wrote:

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: Bullies attack prankster, get spooked back.

Steven King's Carrie?

Sounds more like the Jade story. Jade 5 Redefining Jade.

mittfh wrote: I'm intriuged by the "Post-apocalyptic soldier confronts genocidal computer" - the genocidal computer element makes me think of HAL 9000 and GLaDOS, but neither protagonist is a soldier.

So here are a handful of submissions, most of which should be fairly easy (to compensate for the quantity?!)

Starting off with the Whateleyverse:

Two girls rescue thralls, destroy base.

Girl grows venomous fangs, loses hair.

Character eaten, takes incredible journey, survives.

One character becomes two times two.

Character forgets to carry the one.

Mage gender-flipped by cursed book.

And a few not:

Attends poetry recital after home destroyed.
Lovers from rival families commit suicide.

Aristocrat meets witches, then kills rivals.

Bloke builds a big floating zoo.

No, I haven't read either of this pair and don't intend to!

We sparkle in sunlight, not fry!

This tale's not written in colour.

As for these, they're behind you! (Oh, no they're not! Oh, yes they are!)

Cursed: minor injury causes lengthy coma.

Bloke sells family cow, avoids Big Bad.

Rags to riches: sisters mutilate feet.

Sir Lee wrote:

Two girls rescue thralls, destroy base.

The Christmas Crisis with Tennyo and Jinn/Cabbit

One character becomes two times two.

Could be either Jade or Merry.

Sir Lee wrote:

mittfh wrote: I'm intriuged by the "Post-apocalyptic soldier confronts genocidal computer" - the genocidal computer element makes me think of HAL 9000 and GLaDOS, but neither protagonist is a soldier.

Yeah, this one IS a bit obscure... although I have mentioned it now and again. OK, hint: it's a manga, and it is available in English in an official translation.

mittfh wrote: Mage gender-flipped by cursed book - I was thinking of a fanfic for this one... "Naked mage converts air to stones" would also be apt...

~Archangel~ wrote:

Sir Lee wrote:

mittfh wrote: I'm intriuged by the "Post-apocalyptic soldier confronts genocidal computer" - the genocidal computer element makes me think of HAL 9000 and GLaDOS, but neither protagonist is a soldier.

Yeah, this one IS a bit obscure... although I have mentioned it now and again. OK, hint: it's a manga, and it is available in English in an official translation.

Ok it sounds like 'MD Geist', but it could be 'Grey' as well.

Bullies attack prankster, get spooked back

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Soldier saves princess with knitting skills.

Malady wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Soldier saves princess with knitting skills.

Demolition Man? The knitting soldier sounds fits, but not the princess...

Wait is it the princess who can knit, or the soldier?

Dawnfyre wrote: Arcanus, Demolition man is a movie, Sylvester Stallones, and Sandra Bullock as the heros, Wesley Snipes as the villain.

not a major hit, but ok for a one time watch.

elrodw wrote: Okay, here's one (one of my favorite novels actually):

Misfit trio rebels, throws rocks, wins

~Archangel~ wrote: Well here is one.

Disabled electrician helps computer run revolution

Mister D wrote: a bundle of paper and ink.

NeoMagus wrote:

Mister D wrote: a bundle of paper and ink.

Well played, good sir.

Mister D wrote:
"Policeman time-travels, learns and inspires."

Dreamer wrote:

mittfh wrote: Mage gender-flipped by cursed book - I was thinking of a fanfic for this one... "Naked mage converts air to stones" would also be apt...

Would that be Loss, Change and New Beginnings by A-Eadie, with his character Esuna?

mittfh wrote: A trio from Whateley:
Victory granted via staged crying fit

Rodents gang up to defeat bully

Forcefields vulnerable to essence-enhanced waveform

A quartet from outside:
Four ghosts haunt businessman

Ineffectual criminals reveal they're orphans.

Nautical social conventions overturned? Plot twist!

Japanese heir allegedly executed, then weds.

And a couple of manga (although the animes are probably more famous):
Teenagers fight evil in short skirts.

Two girls fight dark with light.

Mister D wrote: "short traveller, goes far, loses jewellry"

mittfh wrote: Country detaches itself, becomes floating island - this one intrigues me, as there are several floating islands in fiction, but no notable ones (well, notable enough to be worthy of mention in Wikipedia's "Floating islands (fiction)" category) that detached themselves from the mainland (rather than with the intervention of the residents).

mittfh wrote: Forcefields vulnerable to essence-enhanced waveform

Sir Lee wrote:

mittfh wrote: Country detaches itself, becomes floating island - this one intrigues me, as there are several floating islands in fiction, but no notable ones (well, notable enough to be worthy of mention in Wikipedia's "Floating islands (fiction)" category) that detached themselves from the mainland (rather than with the intervention of the residents).

Oh, it's notable all right. Really high profile. But this is totally the wrong crowd for this particular book...
Hint: Ayla or Jadis would figure it in... half a second.

Valentine wrote: Villain seals suit, saves the world.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Sir Lee wrote:

mittfh wrote: Country detaches itself, becomes floating island - this one intrigues me, as there are several floating islands in fiction, but no notable ones (well, notable enough to be worthy of mention in Wikipedia's "Floating islands (fiction)" category) that detached themselves from the mainland (rather than with the intervention of the residents).

Oh, it's notable all right. Really high profile. But this is totally the wrong crowd for this particular book...
Hint: Ayla or Jadis would figure it in... half a second.

Um, what's that word, means absolute paradise ... Utopia?

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Soldier saves princess with knitting skills

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Swordsdragon and boy fight in legion.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Wizard school's 113th student really tries.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

mittfh wrote: A trio from Whateley:
Victory granted via staged crying fit

Bunny's combat final

Rodents gang up to defeat bully

Aquerrna's combat final

mittfh wrote: Forcefields vulnerable to essence-enhanced waveform

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

mittfh wrote: A quartet from outside:
Four ghosts haunt businessman

A Christmas Carol

Ineffectual criminals reveal they're orphans.

Pirates of Penzance?

Nautical social conventions overturned? Plot twist!

HMS Pinafore?

Japanese heir allegedly executed, then weds.

The Mikardo?

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

mittfh wrote: And a couple of manga (although the animes are probably more famous):
Teenagers fight evil in short skirts.

LOL, all of them? But, oh Sailor Moon as the most famous.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

mittfh wrote: Two girls fight dark with light.

mittfh wrote:
Yup - so what about the third?

mittfh wrote: Forcefields vulnerable to essence-enhanced waveform

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: The clue was not needed, one of my sister's favourite books: Raymond E. Fiest's "Daughter of the Empire"

~Archangel~ wrote:

mittfh wrote:
Yup - so what about the third?

mittfh wrote: Forcefields vulnerable to essence-enhanced waveform

Eldritch's combat run against Lancer and Hippolyta? Call the Thunder 6 I think.

Mister D wrote: Enhanced artificialpsychopath foils interplanetary plot.

Ametros wrote: "Dragons pressured into undeath amidst rage."

"Boy unwittingly strikes blow against archenemy."

"Girl escapes parents, chases friend north."

Sir Lee wrote:

Ametros wrote: "Girl escapes parents, chases friend north."

Note that I haven't even seen the movie, but... "Frozen?"

Sir Lee wrote:

Ametros wrote: "Dragons pressured into undeath amidst rage."

Uh... that seems a bit like "Guards! Guards!". But not quite, so I'm probably wrong.

"Boy unwittingly strikes blow against archenemy."

Hey, Harry Potter did that when he was what, one year old?

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Sounds more like Golden Compass

Malady wrote:

Mister D wrote: Enhanced artificialpsychopath foils interplanetary plot.

Tennyo's Easter.

Mister D wrote: Archangel and Sir Lee got two of them. (Tips hat in their general direction.)

How about this one?

Enhanced artificialpsychopath foils interplanetary plot.

Mister D wrote: Archangel and Sir Lee got two of them. (Tips hat in their general direction.)

How about this one?

Enhanced artificialpsychopath foils interplanetary plot.

Sir Lee wrote: Boy uses magical disguise, avoids curse

Quadhouse wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: Boy uses magical disguise, avoids curse

Could that be Bek's "Town and Gown"

Enhanced artificialpsychopath foils interplanetary plot.

Sir Lee wrote:

Quadhouse wrote:
Enhanced artificialpsychopath foils interplanetary plot.

Hmmm... I think it could be either "Ender's Game" or "The Stars My Destination"

FuzzyBoots wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Soldier saves princess with knitting skills

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George?

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Swordsdragon and boy fight in legion.

The Pit Dragon Chronicles by Jane Yolen?

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Wizard school's 113th student really tries.

"Wizard's School" by Jane Yolan

Ametros wrote: "Trapped souls freed and Limbo abolished."

Necromancer girl searches for her dad.

Kettlekorn wrote:

Necromancer girl searches for her dad.

Abhorsen

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Ametros wrote: "Trapped souls freed and Limbo abolished."

This sounds like The Amber Spyglass

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Swordsdragon and boy fight in legion.

Pandora's Legion?

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Swordsdragon and boy fight in legion.

Pandora's Legion?

Nope.

Domoviye wrote: Heres one for non-Whateley.
Nazi SS fight crocodile space locusts.

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Swordsdragon and boy fight in legion.

Pandora's Legion?

Nope.

It's on the tip of my tongue, there are dragon boys who help take care of sentient humanoid dragons fighting against threats from a godlike entity who wants to destroy worlds in a fantasy world.

Valentine wrote: Villain seals suit, saves the world.

Domoviye wrote: He could use a sword with his tail. And he and his boy helped save a wild dragon who had his wings destroyed by the 'orcs' and 'trolls' used by the enemy.
His name was Basil?

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Domoviye wrote: He could use a sword with his tail. And he and his boy helped save a wild dragon who had his wings destroyed by the 'orcs' and 'trolls' used by the enemy.
His name was Basil?

Basil Broketail?

And for some reason 'The dragon and his Boy' is coming to mind.

Mister D wrote: NIce try but no cigar.

I enjoyed reading Donaldson's interpretation of the Norse mythos.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: "Character instructs author in publishing politics"
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

"Fit physicist explodes nuke, saves world"
Hmm, I have two guesses, "Into the Looking Glass" would be my first one, "Warp Speed" my second, though technically while the effects where similar, it wasn't a nuclear bomb in the second one, and it exploded cause he couldn't defuse it, but he was a very fit physicist

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: "Alien drug dealers find soldiers useful"

Janissaries, Jerry Pournelle.

Or "Pandora's Legion", which has similar plot, but Roman Legions and not US army, and the "drugs" lend itself more to Janissaries.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Mister D wrote: NIce try but no cigar.

I enjoyed reading Donaldson's interpretation of the Norse mythos.

I assume that's for my guess of Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Cycle for "Enhanced artificialpsychopath foils interplanetary plot"?

Domoviye wrote: He could use a sword with his tail. And he and his boy helped save a wild dragon who had his wings destroyed by the 'orcs' and 'trolls' used by the enemy.
His name was Basil?

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: "Entire rebellion is just one man"

OK, I know this book, but I'm having a mental block and can't remember its title or author, so I'll add clues to help someone else.
Science fiction book, relatively short, beginning of a series, the main protagonist is the proprietor of a …

Oh, don't worry, I remember it now "The man who never missed" and a search turns up the author as Steve Perry.

Valentine wrote: Villain seals suit, saves the world.

Kettlekorn wrote: A boy and his tool survive.

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote: A boy and his tool survive.

Hatchet?

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: "Dragons pressured into undeath amidst rage."

Hmm, throwing out a weird one here, "Shadow Star" by Chris Claremont, third of his "Shadow Moon" series, sequels to the movie "Willow".

Kettlekorn wrote: It's not actually about angry fruit.

Kettlekorn wrote: Giant trees around a neutron star.

Sir Lee wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote: It's not actually about angry fruit.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?

Sir Lee wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote: Giant trees around a neutron star.

Larry Niven's "The Integral Trees"

Kettlekorn wrote:

Valentine wrote: Villain seals suit, saves the world.

Confessions of a D-List Supervillain

Kettlekorn wrote:
It's not actually about angry fruit.

The Grapes of Wrath



Forgery, demonology, and rabid Dumas fans

The Da Vinchi Code.

Valentine wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote:

Valentine wrote: Villain seals suit, saves the world.

I thought this was The Daniel Harwood Chronicles. A Whateley Fan fiction

Confessions of a D-List Supervillain

Yes.

Corvacks wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote:
It's not actually about angry fruit.

The Grapes of Wrath

Corvacks wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote: Forgery, demonology, and rabid Dumas fans

The Da Vinchi Code.

Domoviye wrote: Jolly visitor comes one night.
Mutant freak can't join the games.
Best friend, just add magic hat
Most depressing Christmas story EVER!!!!
Ghosts terrorize honest businessman one night

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Dark rises, six turn it back
Girl and her god save city
Girl gets magical horse and empathy
Blue collar wizard destroys buildings frequently
Children find coin, grants partial wishes
Pregnant dragon gets addicted to chocolate

Domoviye wrote: Jolly visitor comes one night.
Mutant freak can't join the games.
Best friend, just add magic hat
Most depressing Christmas story EVER!!!!
Ghosts terrorize honest businessman one night

A visit from Saint Nicholas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
???
The Little Match Girl?
A Christmas Carol

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Jolly visitor comes one night.
Mutant freak can't join the games.
Best friend, just add magic hat
Most depressing Christmas story EVER!!!!
Ghosts terrorize honest businessman one night

A visit from Saint Nicholas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
???
The Little Match Girl?
A Christmas Carol

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Jolly visitor comes one night.
Mutant freak can't join the games.
Best friend, just add magic hat
Most depressing Christmas story EVER!!!!
Ghosts terrorize honest businessman one night

A visit from Saint Nicholas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
???
The Little Match Girl?
A Christmas Carol

Most of them are right.
The first one is close but not the one I'm thinking of, or at least not by that name.

And Ib12US is right about Frosty the Snowman.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Dark rises, six turn it back
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper

Girl and her god save city
???

Girl gets magical horse and empathy
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey

Blue collar wizard destroys buildings frequently
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Children find coin, grants partial wishes
The Queen's Nose

Pregnant dragon gets addicted to chocolate
???

Domoviye wrote: Jolly visitor comes one night.
Mutant freak can't join the games.

Best friend, just add magic hat
Mr Ben?

Most depressing Christmas story EVER!!!!
Ghosts terrorize honest businessman one night

A visit from Saint Nicholas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
???
The Little Match Girl?
A Christmas Carol

Corvacks wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Dark rises, six turn it back

The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper

Girl gets magical horse and empathy

Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey

Blue collar wizard destroys buildings frequently

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Children find coin, grants partial wishes

The Queen's Nose

Corvacks wrote: Sorry about that.

It may have been called something different in the U.S.

Sometimes book titles change between countries.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Girl and her god save city

Mister D wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Girl and her god save city

Shardik?

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Mister D wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Girl and her god save city

Shardik?

Nope!

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Jolly visitor comes one night

Most of them are right.
The first one is close but not the one I'm thinking of, or at least not by that name.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Jolly visitor comes one night

Most of them are right.
The first one is close but not the one I'm thinking of, or at least not by that name.

The Night Before Christmas

Kettlekorn wrote: Scientists accidentally make gun control interesting.

Domoviye wrote: Not so much a book, but a series.
-Big Tanks protect humanity.

-Why John Ringo? Why?

-Mary Sue blows up many starships.

-Revengel spirit + super soldier kill pirates

Domoviye wrote: Not so much a book, but a series.
-Big Tanks protect humanity.

-Why John Ringo? Why?

-Mary Sue blows up many starships.

-Revengel spirit + super soldier kill pirates

~Archangel~ wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Not so much a book, but a series.
-Big Tanks protect humanity.

-Why John Ringo? Why?

-Mary Sue blows up many starships.

-Revengel spirit + super soldier kill pirates

1 - Bolo

3 - Honor Harrington

4- In Fury Born

~Archangel~ wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Not so much a book, but a series.
-Big Tanks protect humanity.

-Why John Ringo? Why?

-Mary Sue blows up many starships.

-Revengel spirit + super soldier kill pirates

1 - Bolo

3 - Honor Harrington

4- In Fury Born

Domoviye wrote:

Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Jolly visitor comes one night

Most of them are right.
The first one is close but not the one I'm thinking of, or at least not by that name.

The Night Before Christmas

Yep.

Domoviye wrote:

~Archangel~ wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Not so much a book, but a series.
-Big Tanks protect humanity.

-Why John Ringo? Why?

-Mary Sue blows up many starships.

-Revengel spirit + super soldier kill pirates

1 - Bolo

3 - Honor Harrington

4- In Fury Born

Yes to all of this.
Ok, with #2, it's actually a pretty big clue. If no one can figure it out by tomorrow night I'll give another six words for the series. As a hint, it's Ringo's personal shame that became hugely popular and he's not sure why.