You've written the world's greatest book- what's it about?

TsukiRyoko · Jan 30, 2007

I had a dream that I was writing the world's greatest book (then I forgot what it was about, leaving myself no choice but to beat my face off of everything I could see) and it made me wonder, "What WOULD the world's greatest book be about? What do you all have to say- if YOU wrote the world's greatest book, what do you think it would be about (not a book that's already written, you have to write it)?

Penguin Queen · Jan 30, 2007

1001 Recipes with Chocolate and Cream, each having fewer than 99 calories.

Or, on a completely different note, The Story of how we put an end to poverty and inequality.

But I doubt any book can do that. *sigh*

johnzakour · Jan 30, 2007

Or...

1001 Easy Recipes with Chocolate and Cream, each having fewer than 99 calories and improving your sex life.

(It's a long title, but it would still sell well.)

aadams73 · Jan 30, 2007

johnzakour said:
Or...

1001 Easy Recipes with Chocolate and Cream, each having fewer than 99 calories and improving your sex life.

(It's a long title, but it would still sell well.)

by Abraham Lincoln's dog. A bestseller for sure!

giftedrhonda · Jan 30, 2007

It would be a tribute to the world's greatest book.

(sorry--Tenacious D has warped my mind)

C.bronco · Jan 30, 2007

When I was in high school, I kept a dream journal. One morning I woke up knowing that I just had the most incredible dream which was the story of a century. I wrote it down, went to school, got home and opened my notebook with anticipation. The story went as follows: A talking turtle has adventures and parachutes to saftey. That was it. I guess in the dream I was able to suspend disbelief.

thethinker42 · Jan 30, 2007

I know what it WON'T be about: every person who's ever said "OOO! OOO! Put me in your book!" XD

Gabriel · Jan 30, 2007

I too had a dream about a great hurraine and the earth being torn apart my metal. What did I do? Write a book about it that's now developing into a series. I'm working on it's sequel now!

Rolling Thunder · Jan 30, 2007

You've written the world's greatest book- what's it about?
I had a dream that I was writing the world's greatest book (then I forgot what it was about, leaving myself no choice but to beat my face off of everything I could see) and it made me wonder, "What WOULD the world's greatest book be about? What do you all have to say- if YOU wrote the world's greatest book, what do you think it would be about (not a book that's already written, you have to write it)?

Kitty cats.

Shadow_Ferret · Jan 30, 2007

OH, right, like I'm going to tell you. Then you'll run off and write it and I'll be left holding the bag while all the critical acclaim, commercial success, and Nobel Prize go to you.

Uh-uh. No way, no how.

Pagey's_Girl · Jan 30, 2007

johnzakour said:
Or...

1001 Easy Recipes with Chocolate and Cream, each having fewer than 99 calories and improving your sex life.

(It's a long title, but it would still sell well.)

I'd buy a copy of that one...

My greatest book? "As Long As I Have You - My Life With Jimmy Page" by me, of course...

Oh hush. A girl can dream, can't she?

TsukiRyoko · Jan 30, 2007

thethinker42 said:
I know what it WON'T be about: every person who's ever said "OOO! OOO! Put me in your book!" XD

Do you realize how much ass I have to kick over this question? Either I'M doing the butt whooping, or (if I cave and do put them in there) a character is doing it (if I put someone in my story via request, I'm sure to kill them off in the most gruesome fashion I can conjure).

TsukiRyoko · Jan 30, 2007

Shadow_Ferret said:
OH, right, like I'm going to tell you. Then you'll run off and write it and I'll be left holding the bag while all the critical acclaim, commercial success, and Nobel Prize go to you.

Uh-uh. No way, no how.

Paranoid rodent friend- will you pur-LEASEEEEEe share your greatest story with us?

I'm running out of ideas!

thethinker42 · Jan 30, 2007

TsukiRyoko said:
Do you realize how much ass I have to kick over this question? Either I'M doing the butt whooping, or (if I cave and do put them in there) a character is doing it (if I put someone in my story via request, I'm sure to kill them off in the most gruesome fashion I can conjure).

I have a king that's VERY heavy-handed and very creative with torture. 'nuff said...

a tree of night · Jan 30, 2007

C.bronco said:
The story went as follows: A talking turtle has adventures and parachutes to saftey. That was it. I guess in the dream I was able to suspend disbelief.

You sure you didn't fall asleep watching an episode of Tooter Turtle? (obscure reference ticker + 1)

ibid. · Jan 30, 2007

When we wake up from those dreams of the greatest book ever, it seems a one way street— we come from the "wow!" back to the "yeah." The greatest books are those that take us from the "yeah." into the "wow!"

It might be helpful to keep in mind that the dreams we wake up from are those at the end of the sleeping cycle. First we've "drifted off" to sleep, dreaming occuring after a period of close to absolute rest.

If a novel is to replicate the vastness and wonder of dream, the reader must become the dreamer, they must feel that immediacy that we feel in those dreams.

Maybe we have to lull them first to sleep, then ere to dream?

So that what the greatest book is "about" can be anything, anything at all -- it certainly has to be about "something" but the greatness lies in the treatment, not the thing-meant.

And therein lies the trick.

MajorDrums · Jan 30, 2007

You've written the world's greatest book-what's it about?

It's about letting the steam out of a hot-button topic...I'm almost finished. Now I just need to edit...and edit...and edit... :e2writer:

icerose · Jan 30, 2007

1001 Easy Great Tasting Recipes with Chocolate and Cream, each having fewer than 99 calories and improving your sex life.

Can't forget the great tasting.

Stew21 · Jan 30, 2007

like everything else I write, I won't know what it's about until I get most of the way done with it and I won't know how it ends until I get there. So when I say, "couldn't tell ya"...it's true. I really couldn't.

Azure Skye · Jan 30, 2007

It's about 385 pages long. And man am I tired.

LeeFlower · Jan 30, 2007

Mine would be about people.

Interesting ones.

Who like, do things. And then change something as a result. Possibly themselves.

Yeah. That'd be awesome.

engmajor2005 · Jan 30, 2007

A common man comes into possession of a simple thing, which unbeknowst to him carries the power of the most evil being that ever lived. Now, this common man must take that deceptively ordinary object back to the very place it was made and cast it into hellish fires so that it may be destroyed, breaking the evil that had made it.

...Naw, that will never work.

Okay, okay, okay. A proud man has been maimed by a great beast, and the only way he can find closure is to slay the very beast that injured him.

...Who am I kidding? That's so CLICHE!

icerose · Jan 30, 2007

engmajor2005 said:
Okay, okay, okay. A proud man has been maimed by a great beast, and the only way he can find closure is to slay the very beast that injured him.

Which story is this one?

AndreaGS · Jan 30, 2007

icerose said:
Which story is this one?

Moby Dick?

IrishScribbler · Jan 30, 2007

A real story of a writer...sitting at a computer...reading forums instead of creating....

It would create a new genre!

You've written the world's greatest book- what's it about?

Forced into cell phone life

Break the rules.

Dangerous with a Keyboard

A Work in Progress

Gifted Goofball

I have plans...

Abnormal Romance Author

Not just your average bear.

Court Jester

Still plays with dolls

Forced into cell phone life

Forced into cell phone life

Abnormal Romance Author

Kidnapper

Lost in School Work

Huh?

Lurker Extraordinaire

Lost in School Work