Four Word Reviews

One for my baby - Tony Parsons: Second rate "Educating Rita".

bill bryson's next book same words, different place

Women are from mars, Men are from Venus: load of idiotic cobblers self help books: making money off poltroons captain birdseye: old fellow's to seed

The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll 'basketball kid takes drugs' The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 'nasty kid not boy' The Outsider by Albert Camus 'No God, Dead Arab' The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 'Martians one, Surrey nil' Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 'Don't do drugs, kids' Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 'It's grim up North' Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 'Frightened Catholic Gangster Romp' Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 'Less sex than expected'

HAHAHAHAHA ... brilliant ... keep em coming ... india jones: "sweaty intellectual; big whip"

Captian Corelli's Mandolin:- emotional jerk-off in Greece.

Macbeth Jocks in mutual slaughter

Got a three-worder (sorry for breaking the rules) - Mansfield Park - Jane Austen What price Fanny?

Oh dear. I see this ending in tears before bedtime. I'll try to do this without ruffling feathers. "Scouse, but still ace. " "Dry lover of pseudonyms" "She drinks like one!" "He's a pun-loving criminal" "The only ever sound Tory" That's a start, without hopefully upsetting anyone.

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 'adult writes as teenager' On The Road by Jack Kerouac 'Tempting to bored teenagers' Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh 'Chronic addiction to dialect' Paddy Clarke Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle 'Roddy Doyle Ha Ha' Moby Dick by Herman Melville 'Whale hunt and more' In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 'We know already whodunnit' 1984 by George Orwell 'Language is amazingly powerful' A Clockwork Orange by anthony Burgess 'Energy unharnessed goes bad' Look back in Anger by John Osbourne 'hello, Mr Grumpy Sod'

Your last one has FIVE words Andrew! *Stomps off into the night swearing about people who can't count*

Harry Potter Poor idea - rich pickings

Othello weasal sneaks jock weeps

Electric Cool-Aide Acid Test--Tom Wolfe "on the bus trip" A Man in Full--Tom Wolfe "realtor becomes Roman philosopher"

American Tabloid--James Ellroy "mob rules Hoover sucks"

I admit to being a lover of Sue Denim's.

I'd just go for the coda to the whole book :- America was never innocent Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath "Oh, Esther is HER" The Great Gatsby "Love doesn't conquer all" If anyone can do The Sound and The Fury I'll be impressed.

possession - as byatt passable story, tedious verse

Okay, here are some four word film reviews I can come up with. Arthur: Picks Liza. Big Fool. Lawrence of Arabia: Big trains need tracks. Titanic: Iceberg wasn't painful enough. Iceberg should've shot DiCaprio. Soylant Green: You must whip it. Planet of the Apes: Burton -- damn dirty director. Jesus Christ Superstar: Jesus - the original hippie. Silence of the Lambs: I like liver too.

more film reviews... Hannibal: same part, new actress 2001 a space odyssey avoid computers called HAL Nightmare on elm street 1 Ugly face, very bitter Nightmare on elm street 2 Still ugly, still bitter Seven Head-case, head in case. Fargo Funny accents, funny looking

Night of the Hunter "man loves to hate"

Sex and the City "four bores no waiting"

middlemarch: social climbing. endless disappointment On the Beach - Neville Shute apocalypse now, miserable then Great Expectations: huge disappointments (bugger 4 words we can do it in two!) Bleak House: s.hit hotel prufrock birds, disappointment The Graduate: old bird, young bloke the way we were: that then, this now it's a wonderful life: angels, snow - take tissues five easy pieces: playing piano, getting knowledge american pastoral - Phillip Roth: american sex, peculiar view peter pan: boys will be boys

Little Women: Jo married wrong guy! As Good As It Gets: nobody gets normal boyfriend or: normal boyfriends dont exist The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser: retarded person makes good Rainman: autism isnt very engaging American Beauty: plastic bags, deep meaning The Tempest: boat on rocks crisis Romeo and Juliet: faked death costs lives Midsummer Nights Dream: misunderstanding causes big mess

Missi - the ever was, I think, necessary given context of sentence.

Mission Impossible2: total and utter shite. Drunken Master: Jackie Chan promotes alcohol. Final Fantasy 8: give me back materia. The Bible: is this for real? Secret Diary of Adrian Mole: but it's not secret. Existenz: messes with your head.

The Godfather 'Guns and Olive Oil' The Beach 'Lord of the Backpackers' The Shipping News 'a fishing disaster'

From Hell It Came--movie "send it back now" Attack of the 50 Foot Woman "big broad stomps around" As Good As It Gets "nutty writer gets girl" or "there's someone for everyone" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid "two guys take off" Mission Impossible 2 "what was that about" Unforgiven--movie "bang bang you're dead" Sunset Boulevard "dead man in pool" or "old dog new tricks"

Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus: men in caves? gawd

Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus 'Women are from Venus'

Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus: men: elastic bands???? yikes

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus space travel without map

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus "Please define geographically undesirable"

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: men ARE from mars

I've got to say I enjoyed About A Boy, very moving. When it got to the final song in the school band contest I thought - how are they going to get out of this one without it being extremely corny.........but it wasn't. (missing the point of thread I know - sorry!)

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: Relationship advice from Uranus

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: please repatriate the writer

Well it's a contradiction in terms anyway.

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan: good writing, no heart

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus I give up. Next!

Same book "Ballooning ace, rest not"

Women are from mars, Men are from Venus a post modern deconstruction

Eastenders: dreary repetitive loada balls Coronation Street: camp repetitive loada balls Brookside: loada balls; scouse accent

Star Trek Uhura's thigh stops show