Strangest story descriptions.

icerose said:

"Twilight meets Saw".

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Dude....if that was a movie, I'd watch it.

Someone I knew said she was writing a book that was basically a My Little Pony fanfic. She even said she was talking to a lady to get it published.

Not sure that counts and I'm pretty sure she was lying about the publishing bit. Maybe I just hate My Little Pony. I did read some of it that she posted on her blog and it was horrible. *Shrug*

I too would watch or read twilight meets Saw, and I'm not a fan of either franchise. Which I guess means the description does its job...

icerose said:

My problem with that particular description is I can't picture it at all. I mean right now I'm picturing Bella and Edward running through a maze of life threatening traps and at the end when they go in for a kiss both of their heads get chopped off or something.

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That's what's awesome about it.

We also have Jane Austen meets Night of the Living Dead (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies).

Er -- I can't say I have ever paid enough attention to unusual book descriptions to recall one now, but the other day I thought of a really unusual way to describe my own writing. I don't think I'll share it, though, because it's kind of vulgar and goofy.

This thread did remind me of it, though, and recalling that I ever thought this about myself made me wonder what in hell is wrong with me.

The nuttiest I can think of is my own: Oliver Twist meets the Lord of the Rings with a cream pie.

Libbie said:

Er -- I can't say I have ever paid enough attention to unusual book descriptions to recall one now, but the other day I thought of a really unusual way to describe my own writing. I don't think I'll share it, though, because it's kind of vulgar and goofy.

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Now I want to know what it is.

I see good things from icerose's proposed plot for Twilight meets Saw. Especially the ending. It's unconventional in straying from the HEA!

Mine was different. Moses meets Terminator

My own: Roland Emmerich remakes Pretty Woman.

Mine: Catch-22 in supernatural Transylvania.

haha, backslashbaby that's awesome.

This isn't quite along the same lines, but just a few days ago I was talking with a friend about some Terry Pratchett books, and he was telling me about how there's a rat grim reaper who flies around on a crow and the crow pretends that it's not really his steed, etc. Partway through the conversation I just stopped and went, "You know, if anyone didn't know Terry Pratchett, this would sound completely insane."

This just made me think of that.

Saw.. on ice.

Saw meets Alvin and the Chipmunks.. the Squeakel.

Think about that.

Mine's not too strange: Xena meets Blade Runner.

(For anime/manga fans, I describe it as Gunsmith Cats/Dirty Pair meets Appleseed with a splash of a Bubblegum Crisis/Akira/AD Police/Ghost in the Shell future)