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Sixth of the Dusk

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A group of advanced aliens is unable to easily conquer a bunch of seafaring primitives because of business regulations on a world where thinking is dangerous and can get you killed. Also, a guy sees his own dead body everywhere he goes because of a magic bird that's not supposed to be a magic bird.

Shadows for Silence

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An old lady makes a living for her family by savagely killing dangerous criminals at night.

Edgedancer

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A little girl goes to an upside-down city to hunt down a crazy police officer and pancakes.

Secret History

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A heroic psychopath punches two gods in the face after he dies.

The Emperor's Soul

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The fate of an empire rests in the hands of a con artist.

Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania

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An editor complains about all the flaws in a grossly exaggerated but somehow true story.

Elantris

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A bunch of godlike beings turn into zombies and are stuck like that for ten years because they don't know how to draw an extra line on their magic symbols.

Mistborn: The Final Empire

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see The Emperor's Soul

The Hero of Ages

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A depressed atheist becomes God.

 

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Original Dune Series

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A group of women who do secret Eugenics program to rule the universe and end up screwing themselves and everyone else, then try to make up for it for the next few millennia

Expanded Dune Series

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don't die and let your son partner with Kevin J Anderson

or 

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if you die... hire Brandon Sanderson to finish your works

 

Firefly

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Manchild and friends play Cowboys and Zombies in space - is then canceled to early

 

The Emperor's Soul

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A highly talented 'criminal' is more ethical and does more for the betterment of her country than the 'legal' politicians who call her criminal.

 

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2 hours ago, Did Someone Say Kill Evil? said:

Pretty sure one of them is a chick

The Lightweaver I think

The Heralds are five men and five women, the women are the patrons of the Lightweavers (Shalash), Elsecallers (Battar), Edgedancers (Vedel), Truthwathcers (Paliah), Dustbringers (Chana). 

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2 minutes ago, WhiteLeeopard said:

The Heralds are five men and five women, the women are the patrons of the Lightweavers (Shalash), Elsecallers (Battar), Edgedancers (Vedel), Truthwathcers (Paliah), Dustbringers (Chana). 

So the world is ending because 5 chick's and 4 guys stabbed a rock

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Emperor's Soul:

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A woman's art forgery goes so well, they name it 'Emperor', then the government tries to add her skeleton to their personal collection.

Alloy of Law:

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Cowboy Magneto is recruited by the Gotham to take down his ex-best friend, Crowley.

Shadows of Self:

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Immortal shape-shifters and God have Cowboy Magneto kill his wife a second time. 

Bands of Mourning:

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His wife wasn't enough. Cowboy Magneto's thirst for family blood strengthens as he attempts to kill his sister and uncle as well. Instead he dies, and is brought back to life by God so he can get married.

 

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Shallan WOK

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A girl spends too long trying to steal something shinty and nearly dies.

Eshonai

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A soldier has to convince everyone not to use nuke like weapons, and fails miserably. 

 Hoid (WOK)

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A magical old guy travels the world insulting everyone.

WOK in General
 

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People wait too long to do stuff and nearly die because of their procrastination.

 

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Harry Potter:

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bk1

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A 'great wizard' (read as incompetent celebrity) takes the credit for making his friends do all the work, then petrifies Two-Face.

bk2

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A really old bird and Gollum save an incompetent celebrity and his future wife.

bk3

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An incompetent celebrity's dogfather decides chewing legs is more important than saving his godson from a rat.

bk4

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A changeling enters an incompetent celebrity into a tournament he doesn't qualify for and engineers his victory, increasing his notoriety, all to get him to touch a cup he could have called him to his office to touch.

bk5

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A now less incompetent celebrity starts an armed cult to fight another cult. The pansies in the government looks the other way.

bk6

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The leader of the cult started by the less incompetent celebrity dies in order to make the other cult's leader kill the guy who liked the celebrity's mom and to give one of the opposing cultists a stick on the off chance the celebrity would take it back. (I feel like this needs to be reworded for clarity.)

bk7

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The less incompetent celebrity goes into seclusion to hide from the other cult, who now have government support. The celebrity goes back to his cult's home base to use illegal/evil magic, commit arson, and murder the other cult's leader. The cults get in a bar fight over their sacred rock, stick, and rag.

You may guess I don't really like Harry Potter from those bad explanations. You would be right.

Sword of Shannara Series

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A series of quests to get really angry fighting nothing. Also, there is an old dude that only gets more crotchety and harder to talk to as time goes on.

Kingkiller Chronicle

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Gary Sue whines about why he has suffered more than anyone, so he should be left alone. His cat tries to get him to grow a spine.

WoK

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A warlord decides killing isn't enough fun any more so he tries manipulation instead. Listening to the voices in his head makes him give up his lightsaber for enough credits to buy some slaves.

A sarcastic girl who euthanized her parents tries to cope with reality by embezzling her boss.

A grumpy dude decides not to poison himself. Twice. Then he hides behind corpses to keep from getting shot. His pithy one-liner saves everyone.

A god-king ritually sacrifices people in his basement.

Elantris

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Circumstances have changed so we should change our objective. Again. A heretic who has destroyed nations saves one instead.

Warbreaker

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A bunch of zombies politick. A couple of humans incidentally end up being important too.

I think some people don't fully understand the point of these. It's isn't supposed to just be a one or two line summary, it also needs to be seriously misinformative without strictly lying. The OP definitely had the best ones so far.

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7 hours ago, Draginon said:

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

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I infiltrate a library to steal back a bag of sand because my grandpa was late.

But... that's a very accurate description! The purpose of the thread is to explain plot badly, noty excellently!

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35 minutes ago, Oversleep said:

But... that's a very accurate description! The purpose of the thread is to explain plot badly, noty excellently!

But it doesn't give context! If someone came along and read that they'd wonder "Why break into a library to steal some sand?! And does his grandpa being late have to do with this? Is he a thief?" so it explains the plot badly, but accurately.

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This group is going to be one big joke:

WOT

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Man takes 15 years to write 12 books and dies trying

Game of Thrones

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Man takes 20+ years to write 7 books

Kingkiller Chronicles

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Man takes a decade to write 3 books

Lord of the Rings

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Man takes 17 years to write one book

If you get the joke you get a cookie!

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On 5/16/2017 at 2:57 PM, Kinnsayyy said:

The Final Empire:

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A serial killer breaks out of prison, kidnaps a little homeless girl, then starts a cult. 

 

 

That's an improvement. :)

The Kingkiller Chronicles: A boy wants to get into a library and read, but he can't. Later on he buys a shirt.

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What Happened In Portland

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A teacher, a creep, and an insane woman obsessed with sparkles gets into a fight with two other exclusive clubs. And then nighthound died.

What happened in Dalles

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A guy named after two riffles shoots the man in charge of the city. His friends take over and attempt to fight several gangs. 

What happened in corvallis

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A drug dealer is kidnapped by a figure from her past. The city, all addicts, goes insane. 

What happened in astoria

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A bunch of people with superpowers get tired of listening to another person with superpowers whine.

What happened in salem

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People fight in their dreams. 

 

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