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| From: | mrsmom | Nov-5 11:01 am |
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(1 of 17) | | | | 21171.1 | |
| Can anyone tell me where to find a short synopsis on a book? I have the title and would like to know what it's about. I keep running into dead ends... Thanks! |
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| | | | | 21171.2 in reply to 21171.1 | |
| For a married woman (and a mother), you are being surprisingly coy. May we know the title and author of the book, please? This information would make it significantly easier to assist you in your difficulty. |
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| | | | | 21171.3 in reply to 21171.2 | |
For Wotan -
Very clever poopslinger (yeah, yeah, you fancy yourself a gunslinger…but let's be descriptive), but MrsMom is probably wondering about what she knows must be a risqué title found under the mattress in her teenage son’s bedroom…and she is a little embarrassed to say so.
For MrsMom -
There are dozens of sites that will help you for a fee (just google or bing or whatever "book synopsis"), but perhaps this will help:
http://www.freebooknotes.com/ Oh, and welcome! |
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| | | | | 21171.4 in reply to 21171.3 | |
| Mrsmom seems reasonably literate - compared with Maggers, say - so one's first question is why she doesn't just read (or at least skim through) the book for herself. I think that your suggestion that she is "wondering about what she knows must be a risqué title" is an obvious non-starter. If she knows it is a risqué title (what a delightfully old-fashioned turn of phrase!), then her query to us does not arise. I don't believe she has a physical copy of the book available to her. The mystery is not yet solved. |
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| | | | | 21171.5 in reply to 21171.4 | |
| I think she's a Chinese customs officer seeking out wicked books that slander socialism. |
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| | | | | 21171.6 in reply to 21171.5 | |
Good Heavens! I had never considered that possibility!
Actually, I still haven't. |
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| | | | | 21171.7 in reply to 21171.6 | |
Whatever, she's so far too shy to come back and look for the answer. Wikipedia has synopses of some books. But of course nobody believes anything they read on Wikipedia. |
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| | | | | 21171.9 in reply to 21171.7 | |
I believe stuff I read on Wikipedia!
Admittedly I'm the one who wrote it.
Whitehawk
"Never look back, something might be gaining on you"
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| | | | | 21171.10 in reply to 21171.9 | |
| Great work, Whitey. Actually I find Wiki TENDS to the accurate which is not quite the same as BEING accurate, but never mind, it's a start. I was looking at the entry "Forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union" yesterday (incidentally quite interesting) for the spelling of маленькая работа (meaning little work/task, contorted into "malenkij robot" in Hungarian). Imagine what a research project that would have been before the Age of Wiki. |
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| | | | | 21171.11 in reply to 21171.10 | |
And just think of all the confusion I've stopped about the succession of titles of regiments of the Indian Army 1666 to 1947!
Whitehawk
"Never look back, something might be gaining on you"
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| | | | | 21171.13 in reply to 21171.3 | |
| Thanks! These answers got a chuckle out of me! I wasn't meaning to me coy or mysterious. :-) True, I do not have copy of a book - say Strawberry Acres by Grace S. Richmond, for example, and I'm not sure if I want to buy it on Ebay or not. I like to know about a book before I buy it! Sorry to have crashed all the intriguing ideas! I really am just a plain ole married mom!!!! No risque books either! Thanks for the laughs, though, it made my day. |
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| | | | | 21171.15 in reply to 21171.7 | |
| :-) I've NEVER been called shy before, THANKS! I never thought of looking on Wikipedia, either, thanks! |
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| | | | | 21171.17 in reply to 21171.15 | |
| Another suggestion is Amazon.com. A lot of the books offered have synopses and readers' opinions attached. |
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